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Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Block play

Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Children pass through different developmental stages in their style of block play. Anne O'Connor offers advice on making the most of this activity for two-year-olds.

EYFS Best Practice: Birth to Three Matters - Back to basics

Features

Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Ann Langston, who contributed to the development of Birth to Three Matters, explains its format, history and importance and tells us why it should be dusted down and put back on the shelf as recommended reading for practitioners as they get ready to implement the revised EYFS.

Enabling Environments: Mud - A right mess

Features

Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

The play and learning opportunities that one mud hole can provide are extensive. Julie Mountain describes the creativity and experimentation encouraged by playing dirty.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Follow the leaders

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

How do you keep two-year-olds engaged in a setting for three-year-olds? Penny Tassoni suggests ways of adapting to their different needs.

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - Olympics and Paralympics

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Oakey Dokeys is an exciting place to be in the build-up to the Olympic and Paralympic games, say joint managers Nicola Bushell and Hayley Cannell.

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - flowers and mud

Features

Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Revisiting the forest was a day of discovery for the children of Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex, says Martin Pace, director

A doctor's diary ... Epilepsy

Features

Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Dr Raj Thakkar describes the different types of epilepsy, and the causes, treatment and monitoring of the condition.

Leadership - Working as a team to ease transitions

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Nursery leader Leisa Towle has introduced a new approach to finding out about each individual child when they join the nursery at Southwark Primary School in Nottingham. She explains how this benefits everyone.

Nursery Equipment: Editor's view

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Splitting the areas of learning within the revised EYFS into Prime and Specific was widely welcomed within the sector, and winning all-round approval was the decision to make Physical Development one of the three Prime areas, along with Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Communication and Language.

Nursery Equipment: SEN Resources - On second thoughts

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Resources originally designed to support special educational needs can be beneficial for all young children, says Anne O'Connor.

Nursery Equipment: Gross Motor Skills - Think big!

Features

Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Gross motor skills are the building blocks of cognitive development. Annette Rawstrone looks at resources to exercise large muscle groups.

Nursery Equipment: Proprioception - A clean sweep

Features

Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Everything from household chores to tumbling heightens body awareness, explains Anne O'Connor.

Nursery Equipment: Construction - Work it out

Features

Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Construction play is ideal for developing both gross and fine motor skills. Ruth Thomson provides a round-up of the building sets on offer.

Nursery Equipment: Fine Motor Skills - Helping hands

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Fine motor skills, including how to hold a pencil, are all now within the goal 'Moving and handling'. Jan White suggests experiences to help children become increasingly dextrous.