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Children with Medical Needs: Supporting ... Oscar

Monday, July 14, 2014

| Nursery World

Attending to health is but one small part of supporting a child with complex medical needs in nursery. Ruth Thomson explains.

Dental Health: Brush up!

Features

Monday, July 14, 2014

| Nursery World

Despite improvements, dental health problems among children are still a reality. Meredith Jones Russell looks at what is being done.

A Unique Child: Nutrition - In the balance

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Dale Pinnock, also known as 'the medicinal chef', champions a healthy approach to food. Katy Morton met him at a cookery demonstration event to talk early years nutrition.

Home learning - Handwriting

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Handwriting is the ability to make a range of marks that form letters. Children need a range of skills to do this, including hand-eye co-ordination and pencil grip. They also need to develop some specific movements that form the basis for individual letter shapes. These include vertical lines as well as bouncing and circular motions.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Leap at the chance

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

In the final part of her four-part series on the 7Cs approach to planning the outdoor play space, Julie Mountain looks at Change and Chance.

Learning & Development: Early Learning - Think again

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

From 2002-15, the Froebel Research Fellowship project focused on children's creative thinking and learning. David Hargreaves, Sue Robson, Sue Greenfield and Hiroko Fumoto share their findings.

Positive Relationships: Working with Parents - Extra special

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

When parents separate, caregivers outside the family can provide essential protection, love and stability to the children affected. Dr Penelope Leach explains how.

Donald Simpson, senior lecturer in education, Teesside University

Other

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Dr Simpson has led a two-year study, supported by a British Academy research grant, exploring early years practitioners' beliefs about child poverty to determine how they relate to their work with children and families experiencing poverty.

Learning & Development Science: Grand designs

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Co-operative Childcare has introduced science gardens - through a creative process involving all 50 of its settings. Meredith Jones Russell reports.

Positive Relationships: Home learning - Get to grips

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

While certain activities are useful for the development of handwriting, others can hinder it - and practitioners can help by explaining the differences to parents.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore... holidays

Features

Monday, June 30, 2014

| Nursery World

Encourage children to draw on their own experiences for this topic, says Marianne Sargent.

Children must be central to our thinking about digital technology

Opinion

Thursday, June 19, 2014

| Nursery World

The title for this year’s Oxford Education Society Saturday school was not quite right, says Natalia Kucirkova

Working Mum - A sinking feeling

Features

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

How practitioners deal with an incident such as biting can make a big difference to the outcome for child and parent, says Working Mum

A Unique Child: Self-care - Skill up

Features

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

When supporting children to take charge of their personal care, practitioners should look to create opportunities, says Penny Tassoni

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - A fighting chance

Features

Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

Sibling rivalry is natural and unavoidable, but the ways in which parents respond to arguments can make a real difference to children's learning. Kay Mathieson offers some advice.