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Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Minibeasts

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

| Nursery World

Go on the trail of creatures that hold a natural fascination for children with activities leading through all areas of your early years provision, suggested by Judith Stevens.

Enabling Environments: Printing - Stamping ground

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Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Printing is an immediately engaging activity for young children because it is both visual and tactile. Nicole Weinstein offers some tips

Nursery Equipment: Engagement - Endless possibilities

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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Creative play and learning come more naturally when the resources are 'open-ended', lending themselves to a variety of uses and constantly holding attention, says Mary Evans.

Enabling Environments: Collections - On the beat

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Friday, February 22, 2013

| Nursery World

To tap into music's potential for cross-curricular learning, settings need a core collection of instruments that cater for all ages, says Nicole Weinstein.

Enabling Environments: Resources - National Poetry Day

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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

| Nursery World

New resources for National Poetry Day give children a reason to rhyme, says Ruth Thomson.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Role on!

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Monday, February 20, 2017

| Nursery World

A ‘mini city’ is informing children about career choices and enhancing role play at one Sheffield school. Nicole Weinstein reports

Nursery Equipment: Gender - Feeling blue?

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

... Or in the pink? Colour-coding and crass gender signalling persist even in these times of presumed equality. Anne O'Connor helps practitioners to negotiate the minefield of bias.

Enabling Environments: All about ... Sensory rooms

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

| Nursery World

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.

Creating A Library - Shelf life

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Monday, May 13, 2019

| Nursery World

How – and why – one setting created a library for two-year-olds and their parents. By Amina Khan, early childhood educator at Everton Nursery School and Family Centre in Liverpool

Enabling Environments: Collections - Touch wood!

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Monday, September 19, 2016

| Nursery World

Nicole Weinstein explores the benefits of working with wood, provides some tips on safety, cites the key resources needed and details where to go for more help

Early Years in School: Continuous Provision - Space out

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

It is important to provide a range of resources that children can access and use independently in the Reception classroom, writes Linda Pound

Enabling Environments: Collections - Top drawer!

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Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Most children like to draw. Nicole Weinsteinfinds out how practitioners can best support young children’s early development of drawing – and looks at some of the best resources on offer

Nursery Equipment: Books - A good read

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

| Nursery World

Books for very young children should have lots of pictures and novelty features, but minimal text. Ruth Thomson spells out what to look for.

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Creativity

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Friday, September 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Creating a space for two age groups to share can help staff get more from resources and ease transition for children. Anne O'Connor suggests ways to make the most of an area.

Enabling Environments: Resources for Under-threes - On reflection

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

| Nursery World

Stimulate babies' sensory and cognitive development with these simple, easily accessible resources, in the third of a series from Claire Stevenson, Donna Luck and Veronica Lawrence.

Nursery Equipment: Introduction - Getting personal

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Settings need to reflect personal, social and emotional development in the fabric of their environment.

Nursery Equipment: Literacy - Out loud

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| Nursery World

Outdoors, children can lose their inhibitions when it comes to reading, writing and talking - and the right mix of resources can help, says Helen Bromley.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise independence outdoors in a project described by Julie Mountain.

Nursery Equipment: Games - On the line

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| Nursery World

Outdoor games are healthy, teach valuable skills, and require only basic resources such as bean bags, hoops and chalk, says Helen Bilton.

Nursery Equipment: K&UW - Look & learn

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| Nursery World

A round-up of products that will encourage young children to become explorers, viewing the world close up or in a different light. Compiled by Ruth Thomson.

Enabling Environments: Tried and Tested - Making music

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

| Nursery World

Musical instruments can help children develop the sound recognition skills essential for reading, spelling and writing. Early years settings call the tune as they try out a few for Nicole Weinstein.

Outdoors in Japan: part 1 - Risk and return

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Monday, May 13, 2019

| Nursery World

In the first of a four-part series, Julie Mountain explores what Japanese kindergartens can teach us about risk-taking and resilience

EYFS Activities - Five things to do with… a blank canvas

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Monday, September 18, 2017

| Nursery World

How to plan a new use for an outdoor space. By Julie Mountain

Maths: Harness the executive function to help children gain a deep understanding of maths

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University of Oxford team who have developed a programme to embed these crucial mental skills into fun maths activities

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Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Minibeasts

Enabling Environments: Printing - Stamping ground

Nursery Equipment: Engagement - Endless possibilities

Enabling Environments: Collections - On the beat

Enabling Environments: Resources - National Poetry Day

Enabling Environments: Collections - Role on!

Nursery Equipment: Gender - Feeling blue?

Enabling Environments: All about ... Sensory rooms

Creating A Library - Shelf life

Enabling Environments: Collections - Touch wood!

Early Years in School: Continuous Provision - Space out

Enabling Environments: Collections - Top drawer!

Nursery Equipment: Books - A good read

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Creativity

Enabling Environments: Resources for Under-threes - On reflection

Nursery Equipment: Introduction - Getting personal

Nursery Equipment: Literacy - Out loud

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play

Nursery Equipment: Games - On the line

Nursery Equipment: K&UW - Look & learn

Enabling Environments: Tried and Tested - Making music

Outdoors in Japan: part 1 - Risk and return

EYFS Activities - Five things to do with… a blank canvas

Maths: Harness the executive function to help children gain a deep understanding of maths

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