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More than three years ago, when the proposals for the Foundation Stage curriculum were being drawn up, it took a concerted effort from leading early years specialists to ward off an inappropriate and...
How should I talk to my baby? Taking turns to make noises is the first step towards having a conversation. Copy your baby's babbling noises, then look at them and wait for a 'reply'. Later on, babies...
A debate in the House of Lords last week flagged up the shortage of speech and language therapists in children's services (see News, page 6). It is not that there are too few people - according to...
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
In our setting, we help young children to make marks and to recognise their own names as a way of beginning to realise that writing is a means of communication, says Pat Johnson Planned learning...
The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing The drawings of 17 children in the USwere analysed at ages four and five. At both ages the most commonly used...
As the nine to five working day becomes ever less common, the need grows for childcare in what used to be called unsocial hours. Evening work, night shifts, weekend work - parents who have little...
In the last in this series on schemes, Nicole Weinstein looks at resources for the connecting scheme
Ofsted's decision to publish inspection reports for childminders on the internet, but not to reveal their full addresses, seems to strike a good balance in terms of making information available...
Most parents find that there are moments in their children's lives that seem particularly special. One of those must be the point when your child turns around and says 'Look, I can write my name now!'