If you work with Foundation Stage children, the official directives about using synthetic phonics as the first and foremost approach to teaching young children to read are probably causing you...
The importance of outdoor provision for young children is only now being fully recognised. The outdoors is another classroom, where learning in every area of the curriculum can take place - and in...
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The number of children being home educated is rising, and the Government wants to give councils more power to monitor them. Meredith Jones Russell reports
Crawling is an important physical stage in its own right which enables babies to break away from their carers for the first time, says Anne O'Connor.
Settings often struggle with planning for under-threes, to the detriment of provision. Jennie Lindon explains some key aspects of developmentally appropriate planning for young children Effective...
By Susan Young, author of Music with the under-fours (RoutledgeFalmer) Egg shakers
Sara Holroyd on how Froebelian principles have been used to develop practice in Kolkata, India
A number of parents are experiencing difficulties applying for the 30 hours because the system incorrectly says they are ineligible or their child does not exist.
The Government has been accused of ‘watering down childminder agencies’ with proposals to reduce the number of quality assurance visits and make practice support optional.