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Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 6 - Creativity and critical thinking

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

| Nursery World

In the sixth of our National Strategies features on the EYFS, regional advisor Di Chilvers reflects on what makes effective practice in supporting and extending children's creativity and critical thinking.

Enabling Environments: Creativity - Open secret

Features

Monday, August 7, 2017

| Nursery World

A nursery in Wiltshire used a local garden in an old churchyard, and a visual artist, to put together a Making Memories project. Annette Rawstrone explains

Learning and Development: All about ... Creativity and PSRN

Features

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners should be alert to the potential in all of their setting's creative provision for developing children's problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy (PSRN). Linda Pound shows where to find it.

Enabling environments: Tried and tested - Puppets, Hand in glove

Review

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

Puppets come in all shapes and sizes and are indispensable in most settings. Early years professionals put their hands up and give their verdicts on the following selection to Sue Hubberstey.

From Bach to Baby

News

Sunday, January 7, 2018

| Nursery World

Orchestral musicians are to visit settings in a new venture called Bach to School, from classical concert series Bach to Baby.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pattern

Features

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

| Nursery World

Sometimes overlooked or left to art activities, pattern is fundamental to children's understanding of mathematics, says Judith Stevens.

EYFS best practice - All about… Musical Development Matters

Features

Monday, September 3, 2018

| Nursery World

To mark the publication of new guidance document Musical Development Matters, its author Nicola Burke explains its content and what she hopes it will achieve

Positive Relationships: Home learning - A parent's guide to ... music

Features

Monday, May 18, 2015

| Nursery World

Why is listening to - and making - music important for children? Penny Tassoni explains, and suggests some activity ideas

Enabling Environments: Collections - Fine art

Features

Monday, February 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Painting lets children express themselves, engaging both brain and the body, writes Nicole Weinstein

Learning & Development: Theatre - Curtain up!

Features

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

| Nursery World

Some of the most challenging and most rewarding audiences that actors face are in schools and nurseries, as Judith Napier hears.

Catch a story to keep creativity alive

News

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

A project that invites parents, carers and practitioners to share good practice is helping to inject creativity into early years education.

Art in the Early Years: Part 3: Drawing

Features

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Children have an early and natural urge to draw, but practitioners need to offer them ample resources and encourage them to think about and discuss their efforts afterwards.

Enabling Environments: Under-threes - Follow the thread

Features

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

| Nursery World

Education is not just something delivered to children by adults, but a process that arises from the experiences and the environment of their daily lives, say Tullia Musatti and Susanna Mayer.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Block Play

Features

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Block play allows a child to mix creativity with mathematical problem-solving, says Anne O'Connor.

Learning & Development: Castles - Dungeons and dragons

Features

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

| Nursery World

A cheap roll of cardboard was a brilliant investment, says Sally Squires, nursery co-ordinator at James Peacock Nursery School in Ruddington, Nottingham.

Learning and Development: Creativity - Little Big Bang

Features

Friday, July 20, 2012

| Nursery World

In a bid to improve creative opportunities for the under-fives and their families in Somerset, four artists were placed in nine children's centres. Louise Monks reports on the project's progress.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Messy play for under-threes - Splashes of colour

Features

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Practitioners caring for very young children are often unsure about whether to introduce babies to paint for sensory exploration.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 4: Big ideas

Features

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years settings need to offer provision that will help sustain young children's thinking by using their own initiative, says Marion Dowling.

Around the Nursery, Part 6 - A rich palette?

Features

Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Painting, collage and junk modelling have many benefits for children beyond self-expression and creativity, finds Penny Tassoni

EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: R is for…relationships and resilience

Features

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

| Nursery World

Strong and healthy relationships are prioritised and the development of resilience is well-supported to ensure children’s wellbeing, explainthe Rachel Keeling Nursery School team

Expressive Arts and Design - Brush strokes

Features

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

| Nursery World

The Expressive Arts and Design area of learning and development has links to many other parts of the revised EYFS, explains Penny Tassoni

Learning & Development: Music - Using instruments

Features

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

| Nursery World

Less may be more when you choose instruments for music sessions, says Steve Grocott.

Learning & Development: Nature's way

Features

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

| Nursery World

Playing with sounds promotes young children's acquisition of language, says Steve Grocott

Outdoors: The plants in my street – dandelion

Features

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

Dandelions are versatile ‘weeds’ – they are edible, make great loose parts and provide a host of opportunities for fun, says Julie Mountain

Nursery Equipment: Creativity - Space and time

Features

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

| Nursery World

In Scotland, creativity is now at the heart of early years education. Annette Rawstrone assesses its capacity to foster a love of learning.

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