* Always ensure that pencils are sharpened and books ready so that handwriting exercises are taken seriously. * Throw away scruffy materials and don't force children to use scrap paper for handwriting...
A review of the effects on children of online media and new technology is to be conducted jointly by the Department of Children, Schools and Families and Department of Culture, Media and Sport, as...
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has urged parents to ensure their children are immunised against measles following the release of data showing a ten-fold increase in the number of cases in the...
This Nursery World Podcast – in media partnership with EYE – considers new ways to support children’s wellbeing and forge strong parent partnerships in the coming months.
Early years settings can go green and support their local community in a number of ways. Nathan Archer explains how his nursery does Global poverty, climate change and the world's rapidly depleting...
An award-winning primary school has had architectural judges gushing over its design - but, asks Julian Grenier, have they asked the schoolchildren how they feel about it? The new Hampden Gurney...
Strategies to engage the third partner in the key person approach - the parent - as a child enters and settles in to nursery are explained in our continuing series on key caring by Anne O'Connor
Settings are flagging up cases where they claim to have been inspected by someone who runs a nearby nursery or has a history of managing ‘inadequate’ provision. By Katy Morton
Some primary free schools are taking advantage of their greater powers to offer nursery provision and more experiential curricula.