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Learning & Development: Creativity - Variations on a theme

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

Creativity is the order of the day where a whole primary school is a role-play area. Gayle Goshorn discovers the Fulbridge Way.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Eggs

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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Life begins with an egg - and their potential for learning opportunities and fun activities is endless, as Helen Bromley demonstrates.

Success for nursery music project

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

| Nursery World

A community project that aims to boost music-making in nurseries and children's centres in London has been found successful in bringing quality musical experiences to children.

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.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... movement and music

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

| Nursery World

The foundation for learning is the physical readiness nurtured by carers in the years before a child starts school, writes Sally Goddard Blythe.

Learning & Development: Theatre - Curtain up!

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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.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Imagination

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

| Nursery World

Imagination is a vital part of learning and development because it lets children understand and adapt to the wider world, says early years consultant Linda Pound.

Positive Relationships: Art Exhibition - Going, going, gone!

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

| Nursery World

Children sold their artwork at their own charity auction, reports Annette Rawstrone.

Learning and Development: Ecology - Put to sea

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

| Nursery World

Artist Rosie Potter describes how she helped childen to engage with the wider world when they created a giant fish out of recycled products.

Learning & development: Messy Play for Under-Threes - Make a splash

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

| Nursery World

The youngest children will delight in using their whole bodies to explore water, says Jean Evans.

Nursery Equipment: Dens - My space

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| Nursery World

Whether they are fashioned from hedgerows or built for purpose from tents and playhouses, dens should be personal retreats for children and places that inspire their imagination and learning, says Diana Lawton.

Our bright idea - On the surface

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

| Nursery World

Imagination and creativity went into the mix when Rainbow Nursery children made banners with Sarah Denham.

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Food play

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

| Nursery World

It may come as a surprise how many issues there are to consider in using an accessible and relatively cheap resource like food for play. Annette Rawstrone spoke to nursery managers.

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

Features

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: 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.

Learning & Development: Music for under-threes - Take note

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

| Nursery World

Learning through play comes into its own when you provide musical experiences and activities for two- to three-year-olds, says Alice Sharp.

Our bright idea - Sensory hangings

Features

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

| Nursery World

A nursery resource that combines learning, creativity, decoration and physical enjoyment is described by Sharon Stapleton.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wrapping

Features

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Observe how absorbed the children can become in particular schemas when you provide resources and activities suggested by Diana Lawton.

Learning & development: Open-ended Play - I made a unicorn

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

The importance of leaving children to their own devices with imagination and the most basic materials is explored by Helen Huleatt of Community Playthings with Professor Tina Bruce, Lynn McNair and Sian Wyn Siencyn.

Learning & Development: Science - Discovery channels

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

| Nursery World

One nursery combines learning through play with family involvement by making science boxes. Mary Evans finds out what it's all about.

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Ourselves yesterday

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

| Nursery World

Go back in time for children to get a sense of themselves and to explore concepts with activities across the early years curriculum suggested by Sheila Ebbutt.

A unique child inclusion: Creative thinking

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

| Nursery World

An early years project aiming to promote inclusion through the creative arts challenged everyone's thinking. Louise Jackson explains how.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Contrasts, and cause and effect, are just some of the concepts within the learning to be found in an investigation of 'wet' and 'dry' by Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.

Enabling Environments: music and language outdoors

Features

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Practitioners put their ears to the ground when thinking how to promote language development, as Nicola Hutton and Laura Leddy explain.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves

Features

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Now's the time to go out on a leaf hunt and discover how many areas for learning they can lead you to. Try starting with these ideas from Carole Skinner, Fran Mosley and Sheila Ebbutt.

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Learning & Development: Creativity - Variations on a theme

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Eggs

Success for nursery music project

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

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... movement and music

Learning & Development: Theatre - Curtain up!

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Imagination

Positive Relationships: Art Exhibition - Going, going, gone!

Learning and Development: Ecology - Put to sea

Learning & development: Messy Play for Under-Threes - Make a splash

Nursery Equipment: Dens - My space

Our bright idea - On the surface

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Food play

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

Enabling Environments: Tried and Tested - Making music

Learning & Development: Music for under-threes - Take note

Our bright idea - Sensory hangings

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wrapping

Learning & development: Open-ended Play - I made a unicorn

Learning & Development: Science - Discovery channels

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Ourselves yesterday

A unique child inclusion: Creative thinking

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wet and dry

Enabling Environments: music and language outdoors

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Autumn leaves

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