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The outdoors offers opportunities to get creative with role play. Nicole Weinstein suggests how practitioners might provide resources to support, and build on, children's natural interests.
When deciding which resources to buy for shopping role play, choose products that children will instantly recognise, says Nicole Weinstein.
The conclusions of the Good Childhood Inquiry's final report are not borne out in early years settings' practice, argues Pat Gordon-Smith.
Enclosed spaces can foster friendship and heighten young children's concentration and involvement in their play, says Annette Rawstrone.
To create effective 'enabling environments', we must be open to ideas from a range of sources, including educational pioneers, overseas settings and children themselves, says Nicole Weinstein.
Ofsted is making important changes to its daycare inspection regime. We asked Ofsted's director of early years, Maurice Smith, to explain When will changes be introduced?
Special books – designed to help nursery children make the move to a new room or Reception – are child-led, so they also let practitioners see the world through their eyes, explains Zoe Kimber
Let the ideas go round and round the nursery with activities and resources for following a natural interest, suggested by Diana Lawton.
WINNER: Coton Green Pre-school Nursery, Tamworth, Staffs
Encouraging children to use their bodies in any way they want stimulates their physical and brain development and has a noticeable beneficial effect on behaviour, writes Annette Rawstrone