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Why has the recent proposal to extend the national curriculum to include the Foundation Stage got early years experts up in arms? Mary Evans asks them
Pressure on beacon schools in England to produce good SATS results and reach Government targets is jeopardising the quality of their early years provision, a leading early years organisation has...
Key Stage 1 teachers will be breathing a sigh of relief that the SATs period is finally over for another year. But there is a growing lobby of educationalists and early years specialists calling for...
In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review
As part of a drive to forge links with the local community, a setting in Durham organised a supermarket trip. Carey Anne Bonser reveals why it has given them an appetite for more.
I think that rather than calling the eight-page pull-out 'All About Painting and Drawing' (7 March), a good name for it would have been 'Art Torture for Tots'. What age group is the author of this...
I have been a teaching assistant for ten years and my responsibilities have grown during that time. Last year I completed my Specialist Teacher Assistant Certificate (STAC) through the Open...
Action research is a form of 'self-reflective enquiry' that can help settings work through points of concern to find workable solutions. Julie McLarnon shows how it works in practice.
Early years practitioners are caught between what policymakers and educationalists mean by readiness for school, as David Whitebread and Sue Bingham explain.
What is good practice when it comes to managing staff? The Village Nursery Group, based around Manchester, has some tips. By Hannah Crown