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Regular in-house training ensures high quality care and helps to recruit and motivate staff, explains Karen Faux When Manor Tree Group set up a simulated room for three-to-five year-olds it became a...
Help children find their place in the world with activities mapping out walks and the nursery setting itself, from Jane Drake Developing young children's awareness of geographical features in the...
* The Basic Skills Agency has published Storytelling Ideas and a supporting CD called 'Songs and Rhymes to Share Together', as an extension of the Language and Play Programme. The pack gives ideas on...
‘Intelligent’ open-ended materials are the driving force behind Loris Malaguzzi’s ‘pedagogy of listening’, Nicole Weinstein discovers
Nursery nurses played a vital role in the war effort and had a lot of fun doing it, as Dorothy Brown and Eileen Adey recall When thinking of women and their important roles during the Second World...
An Ofsted survey has found that 107 out of 139 local authorities are making a good contribution towards developing better outcomes for the majority of children and young people. But 'Narrowing the...
The new Ofsted inspection framework says that inspectors must keep the 'bigger picture' in mind and take into account the history of provision, including any concerns, when making their judgement.
In the first of a four-part series, Julie Mountain explores what Japanese kindergartens can teach us about risk-taking and resilience
With warmer days ahead, children can spend even more time outdoors working on a large scale and exploring their creative ideas. The following suggestions focus on two-dimensional mark-making with...
If new practitioners are trained in a new qualification that doesn't even mention play, will they be the informed professionals that children deserve?