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Learning & Development: Cooking - Stirring stuff

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

| Nursery World

Older people added a special ingredient to a nursery cookery project described by Veronica Broyd, headteacher at Kendal Nursery School in Cumbria.

Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

| Nursery World

Provision to enable and challenge the youngest children to direct their own learning is carefully thought out at a centre visited by Nicole Weinstein.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 4: Big ideas

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years settings need to offer provision that will help sustain young children's thinking by using their own initiative, says Marion Dowling.

Learning & Development: Dental care - Open wide

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

A visitor from outside and a well-stocked role play area taught children about dental care

Learning & Development Heuristic Play: Outdoor treasures

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

It's not just babies who gain from heuristic play - and better still if it takes place outdoors, as Sara Davies found in her research.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 3: Broaden the mind

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

| Nursery World

When children are exposed to a wide range of thought-provoking experiences and encouraged to make their own decisions, they will take responsibility for their learning. Marion Dowling shows how.

Learning & Development: Reading - Spread the word

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Encouraging parents to read to their children is just one aim of the National Year of Reading. Ruth Thomson talks to one nursery chain getting in on the act themselves.

Learning & development: ICT - Digital ages

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

One nursery takes a far-sighted approach to incorporating ICT into its daily life and learning, as well as its staff assessments. Ruth Thomson reports.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 2: Deep in thought

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

Practitioners need to identify and observe young children thinking to give them opportunities to move on further, says early years consultant Marion Dowling.

Learning and development: Science - Testing times

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

| Nursery World

Get ready for next month's National Science and Engineering Week - and then keep on having fun all year round with challenges and activities where children and practitioners can learn together, says Ruth Thomson.

Learning and Development: ICT Digital cameras - Picture this!

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

| Nursery World

Having a digital camera to hand puts children at the centre of the picture, whether on screen or in a print display in the classroom, says Harriet Price.

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Dora's adventure

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

| Nursery World

Communication was the key to searching for treasure in an activity devised by Emma Austin and Sue Milburn.

Early Years Science: Electricity

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

| Nursery World

Help children begin to understand how electricity works, in the final part of our series on Foundation Stage science by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton