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Learning & Development: Sand Play - Under-threes

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  • Tuesday, June 9, 2009
  • | Nursery World
Influenced by the principles of heuristic play, staff at Stepping Stones Childcare Centre have developed sand areas that give the under-threes choice and unrestricted access. Manager Jill Tomlinson explains how.

Learning & Development: Creativity - At a stroke

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  • Tuesday, September 30, 2008
  • | Nursery World
Creativity underpins all the learning at Kingsland Nursery School. Head teacher Nicola Mulliner explains why, in the first of an occasional series featuring Stoke-on-Trent's outstanding nursery schools.

EYFS Best Practice: All about… converged play

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  • Monday, October 29, 2018
  • | Nursery World
Digital technologies can enhance ‘offline’ activities if the right balance is struck, explain Professor Elizabeth Wood, Aderonke Folorunsho and Liz Chesworth of the University of Sheffield’s School of Education

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Joyful learning

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  • Friday, June 14, 2013
  • | Nursery World
Enabling children to experience joy can help support learning and reduce stress and anxiety.Linda Pound offers some insight into the steps practitioners can take to embrace this approachPhotographs at Lincolnshire Montessori, Guzelian; Clovercourt, Justin Thomas; and Mains Farm, North News.

EYFS Best practice: Be Specific ... Literacy

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  • Friday, September 14, 2012
  • | Nursery World
Controversy over when reading and writing should be taught could persist under the revised framework.Jan Dubiel, national development manager for Early Excellence, reviews the essential principles.

Early Years Pioneers: Howard Gardner

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  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
  • | Nursery World
The influential work of an academic who developed the theory that all children are intelligent in the different ways they learn is described by Jonathan Barnes

Building 'academic resilience'

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  • Thursday, December 29, 2022
  • | Nursery World
Donna Gaywood explains how a landmark study provided insights for herself and her team to develop key steps to achieving 'academic resilience' – along with an assessment tool which she believes can raise the educational outcomes of children affected by disadvantage.

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