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A major review of education in Scotland has praised the quality of early years provision while highlighting a number of areas for improvement.
By Di Chilvers et al (Early Education, £25)
ICT in the early years is a controversial topic, and all professionals need to know about best practice.
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.
Let the ideas go round and round the nursery with activities and resources for following a natural interest, suggested by Diana Lawton.
Sometimes overlooked or left to art activities, pattern is fundamental to children's understanding of mathematics, says Judith Stevens.
Removing toys from a nursery school in Bristol for a month resulted in the two-year-olds not wanting them back. Nicole Weinstein reports
Enclosed spaces can foster friendship and heighten young children's concentration and involvement in their play, says Annette Rawstrone.
There's a lot to learn, and enjoy, from growing vegetables at any early years setting, and there's always a space for it, as Mary Whiting explain.
This topics enables each child to relate their own unique experiences, and offers insights for practitioners.