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Construction block sets are among the essential equipment that any nursery will have, but that doesn't mean they're all alike. Mary Evans hears how early years settings rate a variety of the latest...
Dr Julian Grenier of Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in East London talks to Marianne Sargent about collaboration in part one of a new series on National Teaching Schools
Nicole Weinstein provides pointers to resources and ideas that make understanding time a fun experience.
Joint winners - Tall Trees Kindergarten, Frome, Somerset and Norland Nursery, Bath
It doesn't require a large budget, just plenty of imagination and some careful forethought about how it's going to be used, to kit out your setting with a sensory room, as Annette Rawstrone explains.
Build up your setting's construction area carefully, with attention to the movement around it and materials with the most potential, says Jane Drake.
Try some innovative activities to consider shapes from all angles and dimensions, with language learning to match, from Sheila Ebbutt.
Offer the under-threes simple objects to manipulate and mark with and hone their skills, suggests Marie Richardson
A course in enabling environments helped Sayyeda Meghji convince her staff change was needed. By Gabriella Jozwiak
Exploring the concepts of fast and slow opens up a huge range of possibilities for learning and fun. Nicole Weinstein suggests some approaches and resources to get children thinking.