A Conservative MP has called for an open debate and free vote in the House of Commons on whether childminders should be allowed to smack the children in their care and to smoke in their presence. Nick...
A floor robot can be fun to use in a dramatic storytelling project that will provide opportunities for linking communication, language and mathematical skills to an imaginary environment. The children...
Be sensitive Even before you start your job, recognise that your employer may feel some of the underlying emotions described above, and that she is emotionally vulnerable as a result of leaving her...
Proposals for a six-term school year in England have come under fire from teachers' unions, who have warned that this would increase stress levels rather than reduce them and would do nothing to help...
This is the last column I will write as a nursery school headteacher. From the end of April I will be in a new job as Early Years Adviser to Tower Hamlets local authority in east London.
Develop policies for computer use, says Wendy Whittaker-Large, owner of training company Networks for Knowledge.
Boys should be encouraged to take part in role-play involving superheroes and toy guns, according to new advice from the Government.
Schools should not be run for profit, a report argues, which found that charities run schools better than businesses.
The creation of a new national agency for children and families to replace Area Child Protection Committees was just one of the 108 recommendations made by Lord Laming last week in his report on the...