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Special report: Integrating STEM in your curriculum

Monday, August 1, 2022

| Nursery World

When providing STEM learning opportunities, how can early years settings harness both children’s innate curiosity and their everyday resources, asks Meredith Jones Russell

Enabling Environments: Community - Going public

Features

Monday, October 5, 2015

| Nursery World

A project involving British and international nurseries is focusing on getting young children to engage with their local communities. Marianne Sargent finds out how it is taking shape.

Early Years Science: Magnetism

Features

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

| Nursery World

Push comes to pull as children make investigations into magnetism. Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton explain how.

Home learning - A parent's guide to ... tablets and mobile phones

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Monday, October 19, 2015

| Nursery World

How much technology is healthy for children, and how can you get a good balance? Penny Tassoni sets out what you need to know.

Nursery Equipment: ICT - Supporting role

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

| Nursery World

With technology playing an increasingly important part in all our lives, it is essential that the early years sector finds appropriate ways to incorporate ICT into settings. Nicole Weinstein finds inspiration at one nursery school using a variety of gadgets to both support and enhance learning.

Learning and Development: ICT Digital cameras - Picture this!

Features

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.

Enabling Environments: Wild Food - Little weeds!

Features

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Never mind if the plant is a weed, it's wild, free, cookable and edible, as children and their families found out with Viv Hampshire.

Learning & Development: Down on the farm

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

A nursery farming project yielded a surprising amount of learning and enjoyment for children and their families. Laura Marcus reports.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors, Part 3 - What do you do?

Features

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Don't assume that young children automatically know how to frame questions, says Tessa Fenoughty.

ICT - for & against: Toddlers, TV and touchscreens

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Do ICT and multimedia in the early years have positive potential, or are they a danger to development? Here, two experts make their case.

Enabling Environments: Visits and Visitors - Introduction - Planning a visit

Features

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

| Nursery World

Visits are invaluable to young children's learning. Heading out on a trip can provide meaningful contexts for learning, broaden children's experience and feed their insatiable desire to explore.

Enabling Environments: Gardening - Home grown

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Monday, November 3, 2014

| Nursery World

A group of children in West London has gone from small beginnings at nursery to transforming front gardens on their road into fertile food-growing sites. Artist-in-residence Rosie Potter explains.

Positive Relationships: Sheep Shearing - Flocking together

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

| Nursery World

A rural nursery shows everyone where wool comes from on the open day when its own sheep are sheared. Annette Rawstrone has a look.

Early Years Science: Light

Features

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

| Nursery World

Investigate where light comes from and where it goes with activities looking at its effects on objects, in our science series by Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Learning & Development: Dental care - Open wide

Features

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

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

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘Space is messy and kids love mess!'

News

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

| Nursery World

Cosmologist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock shared her tips for sparking young children's interest in science at the Nursery World Show.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... our senses

Features

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

| Nursery World

Everyday life can be a continuous topic when children are encouraged to experience nature's elements up close. Diana Lawton shows how.

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.

EYFS Activities: Essential experiences... nature

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Monday, September 18, 2017

| Nursery World

What are the best ways to encourage children’s inherent interest in nature? Penny Tassoni offers some tips for autumn and beyond

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.

An A to Z of enhancements: G is for growing

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

| Nursery World

A focus on plants has given children experiences of growing butterflies and African land snails. By Amy Jackson

EYFS Activities: Let's go to… the National Maritime Museum

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

In a new series on early years programmes at cultural spaces across the country, atelierista and EYT Abigail Horn and her cohort explore a lighthouse

Essential Resources: Nursery World visits… Belmont Farm Nursery School

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Monday, January 8, 2024

| Nursery World

Nicole Weinstein visits a London day nursery on the site of a working farm and looks at the resources and learning that takes place in its Forest School

Learning & Development: National Strategies series - part 10 - Outdoors

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

| Nursery World

In our National Strategies series Dr Andrew Lockett, Early Years Regional Adviser (NE), Anne Lamb, Early Years Senior Regional Adviser (EE M) and Jan Lepley, Senior Adviser, reflect on the importance of being outside.