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Nursery Equipment: Creativity - Outside the box

Monday, May 19, 2014

| Nursery World

Stand back and observe what children are doing, and assess the versatility of your resources, to allow natural creativity to thrive.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Boom, bang, boom

Features

Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

In the second instalment of a two-part series on pattern, Nicole Weinstein looks at language, movement and sound - and suggests some resources for assisting exploration and learning.

Learning & Development: Superhero Play - Superkids - the movie!

Features

Monday, April 21, 2014

| Nursery World

Superhero play has inspired the creation of a film at one London school. Meredith Jones Russell hears about the creative process.

Learning & Development: Music - Surround sound?

Features

Monday, March 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Does your setting consider the impact of its music choices on children? Evidence suggests the area needs more thought, argues Nicola Burke.

The big picture: Clown around

News

Monday, January 27, 2014

| Nursery World

Children at Streatham and Clapham Junior School Nursery took part in a circus skills workshop to develop physical abilities, self-confidence, communication and role-play.

Learning & Development: Two-Year-Olds: Part 12 - Natural links

Features

Monday, December 2, 2013

| Nursery World

How can practitioners work within the Prime areas while also introducing children to the Specific areas of development? Penny Tassoni considers how the different aspects link together

Learning & Development: Expressive Arts and Design - Top marks

Features

Friday, September 6, 2013

| Nursery World

An inspiring male role model, in the form of artist Fabric Lenny, has been encouraging creative mark-making alongside improved communication and collaboration. Helen Chilton explains.

Enabling Environments: What's that Noise?

Features

Friday, August 23, 2013

| Nursery World

A new video shows how to recognise and support young children's musicality

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Joyful learning

Features

Friday, June 14, 2013

| Nursery World

Enabling children to experience joy can help support learning and reduce stress and anxiety.Linda Pound offers some insight into the steps practitioners can take to embrace this approachPhotographs at Lincolnshire Montessori, Guzelian; Clovercourt, Justin Thomas; and Mains Farm, North News.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Pattern, Part 2

Features

Friday, April 19, 2013

| Nursery World

The patterns in language, movement and music may not be immediately obvious but learning to recognise them helps children make sense of the world, says Linda Pound.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Dance in the early years

Features

Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Young children's experimentation with movements is linked to what we later recognise as 'dance', say Anne O'Connor and Anna Daly, directors of Primed for Life Training Associates.

Learning & Development: Finger Rhymes - Thumbs up!

Features

Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Picking up rhymes supported by physical actions seems to be innate in children. But how adults mediate is important for later literacy development, says Opal Dunn

Enabling Environments: Collections - On the beat

Features

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.

The Big Picture - Worlds of the imagination

News

Friday, February 8, 2013

| Nursery World

The National Gallery is holding the Imaginary Worlds Family Festival during half term.

A Parent's Guide to ... Expressive Arts and Design

Features

Friday, November 23, 2012

| Nursery World

Have you ever watched your child playing with mud and wondered what it is that so enthrals them? Their enthusiasm almost certainly lies in a desire to explore and be creative, and such explorations start at a very early age.

EYFS Best Practice: Be Specific ... Expressive Arts and Design

Features

Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

The name change from Creative Development to Expressive Arts and Design gives practitioners the chance to rethink how they support creativity within early learning, says Di Chilvers, advisory consultant in early childhood.

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Creativity

Features

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.

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.

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Expressive Arts and Design

Features

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Jan Dubiel explains the changes to Expressive Arts and Design in the revised framework

Learning & Development: Music - With a bang!

Features

Monday, April 2, 2012

| Nursery World

Infant school children are communicating, negotiating, planning and performing in sophisticated ways with their own junkyard orchestra, as Michael Jones reports.