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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In full swing

Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

Action research has helped to develop a nursery garden to better provide open-ended opportunities for learning, as well improving practice. Teacher Sue Duglan breaks down the transformation.

Learning & Development: Aggressive Play - For real?

Features

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

| Nursery World

Should childcarers allow aggressive play, and where does the line have to be drawn? Elaine Lee considers the views of various professionals.

Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers

News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

Teachers have reiterated a call for the Reception baseline to be scrapped, after a survey found that many believe it harms children and is not an accurate assessment.

EYFS Best Practice: Observation – supporting wider learning

Features

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| Nursery World

In the final part of her series on observation to support wellbeing, Dr Sue Allingham focuses on developing the Specific Areas of Learning

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... the Reggio Approach

Features

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

Find out about the principles behind the renowned early years centres in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and see how they have inspired practice at settings in the UK with early years consultants Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton (www.alcassociates.co.uk)

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Peek a boo!

Features

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

| Nursery World

Two-way exchanges between babies and adults help build up language and brain development. Anne O'Connor considers how practitioners can create more opportunities for them.

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of learning - I is for… interest-led

Features

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

| Nursery World

The team at Rachel Keeling Nursery School explain how they truly value children’s interests and support these by using them as the basis for engaging projects

The Government needs to catch up with early years professionals

Opinion

Monday, March 22, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years assessment needs rethinking in light of the pandemic's effects, say Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes, Dr Siew-Fung Lee and Dr Diana Sousa of UCL Institute of Education.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Den Building

Features

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

| Nursery World

Building dens is a natural and important pastime in children's social and emotional development. Anne O'Connor explores how adults can support this form of play while respecting children's need for privacy

Early Years in School: Adult Role - Lead on

Features

Monday, January 25, 2016

| Nursery World

Teaching in an enabling environment is exemplified at one school in London. By Anna Ephgrave

New order for ELGs and Profile

News

Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

Plans to reform the EYFS Profile and goals are proving controversial. Annette Rawstrone reports

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... planning around core experiences

Features

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years settings can develop their own practice and expertise in harmony with the Early Years Foundation Stage principles. Julian Grenier explains how.

DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video

News

Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has uploaded a new YouTube video on the Reception baseline assessment explaining how it will work.

Learning & Development: Principles and Practice - From the start

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The principles that should underpin putting the Early Years Foundation Stage into practice are set out by Julie Fisher in this excerpt from the revised edition of Starting from the Child.

Enabling environments: Tried and tested - Puppets, Hand in glove

Review

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

Puppets come in all shapes and sizes and are indispensable in most settings. Early years professionals put their hands up and give their verdicts on the following selection to Sue Hubberstey.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pattern

Features

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

| Nursery World

Sometimes overlooked or left to art activities, pattern is fundamental to children's understanding of mathematics, says Judith Stevens.

Two-year-olds: Planning - Get set

Features

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

It is essential to put strong processes in place to ensure quality provision for twos, says Vicky Hutchin.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 4: Big ideas

Features

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.

Building Your Curriculum: Knowledge, Part 1 - A matter of fact

Features

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

In the first part of her article on early years curriculum, Professor Elizabeth Wood explains why a broader approach is needed

Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021

News

Thursday, June 25, 2020

| Nursery World

The Reception Baseline has been postponed for a year to autumn 2021 due to the ‘challenging circumstances’ schools face with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government has announced, in a move welcomed by campaigners.

EYFS Best Practice - All about… observing progress

Features

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

| Nursery World

Amid the chance to ditch tick-lists, Di Chilvers considers how best to observe children’s development and progress

Don't let assessment drive the curriculum

Opinion

Monday, January 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Getting the right balance between assessment and curriculum in the EYFS is tricky - but who said it was going to be easy? Dr Julian Grenier and Lydia Cuddy-Gibbs, head of early years at Ark, give their views