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Nursery Equipment: Book corner - Shelf life

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Creating a book corner gives children a dedicated space for reading and promotes language learning. Jean Evans explains.

Nursery Equipment: Creativity - Slippery, gooey

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Getting children to work creatively with messy materials can assist with the development of descriptive language, explains Anne O'Connor.

Nursery Equipment: Toddler Room - Level best

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Developing a toddler room that taps into children's language interests takes some careful planning. Mary Evans asks four settings for advice.

Nursery Equipment: Outdoors - Shout out!

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

The great outdoors naturally encourages exuberance and noise - but how can you harness this to help children communicate? Anne O'Connor explains.

Nursery Equipment: ICT - Sound and vision

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

ICT resources for promoting language in early years should be chosen with the characteristics of learning in mind. Marianne Sargent reports.

Nursery Equipment: Introduction - Talk, talk

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Creating a rich communication environment is vital for language development, says Nancy Stewart.

Nursery Equipment: Music - Tune in

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Music and language have a close connection to one another, but activities must be tailored to match young children's abilities, says Susan Young.

Nursery Equipment: Role Play - With interest

Features

Thursday, May 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Embracing role play provides an opportunity for children to try out different ways of speaking in situations that are meaningful to them. Nicole Weinstein reports.

National Curriculum review - A springboard for success?

News

Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Headteacher Alison Peacock argues that the teaching profession should respond courageously to the draft curriculum by enhancing it with a richly diverse and irresistible school curriculum that builds on high-quality early years practice.

Questions over funding for creationist nurseries

News

Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Creationist schools are being funded by the Government to provide free nursery education places, according to the British Humanist Association (BHA), Nursery World can exclusively reveal.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Going strong

Features

Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Extending ways to build children's physical strength with a range of interesting resources and activities is easy - and vital, says Julie Mountain.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Vegetables

Features

Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Seeds, greens and legumes can be used to create a whole host of interesting and enjoyable learning opportunities. Marianne Sargent offers some food for thought.

Northern Ireland education minister considers flexible school starting age

News

Thursday, May 2, 2013

| Nursery World

School starting age campaigners in Northern Ireland have welcomed a commitment by the education minister John O'Dowd to look in to making the age summer-born children start school more flexible.

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Opinion

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.