Found 35254 results for "Enabling Environments: Making Spaces ...?type=Feature?year_based=2008?Tags/Name=Policy & Politics|Early Years Curriculum|Careers & Training|Child%20Development?page=1?pageSize=5"
Early years practitioners are themselves part of the provision in any setting. Anne O'Connor outlines their role in and responsibility in promoting learning.
A primary school in County Durham has been embracing the principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage - in a whole-school approach aimed at more flexible learning for all ages. Marianne Sargent...
The basis for good early years practice in helping children develop their creativity is adults who know how to encourage them and model activity but not control the creative process.
Painting offers young children a world of opportunities for experimentation and expression, so early years settings should equip them with ample materials and varied techniques.
Karen Hart unpicks Standard 1 of the Early Years Teacher criteria, and offers an insight into how trainees might demonstrate the standard and embed it into their practice.
It is time to reflect on a broad and balanced early years curriculum, and a revised EYFS should support us to think about what our children need, argues Dr Julian Grenier
The aims and principles that went into developing an innovative children's centre outdoor area are explained to Karen Faux. Photographs by Teri Pengilley at Woodlands Park Nursery.
'Free-and-found' resources lend themselves to creative, child-directed outdoor play. Julie Mountain offers some guidance on sourcing them.
In both the indoors and outdoors environments, loose parts are an ideal resource for involving children in maths activities, explains Shardi Vaziri
In practice, treasure baskets are a tried and tested resource that provide endless fascination for the babies who explore them, but their originator was strict about how they should be made and used....