The latest Ofsted review has found steady improvements in the quality of early years education and childcare provision in daycare settings year-on-year.
Contrasts between early years provision in different countries can help us reflect on whether education is for teaching children readiness for life, argue David Whitebread and Sue Bingham.
Each year after the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, public tennis courts are full of children practising their rallies. Why not cash in on this enthusiasm?says Gail Bushell. this year the...
Learndirect, the biggest provider of childcare apprenticeships, has had its Government funding withdrawn after it was found to be inadequate by Ofsted.
Young children display geographical awareness from an early age, and a new report on early years mapping is rich with links to curriculum and ideas for activities, finds Meredith Jones Russell
Early years settings test colour-related resources for looking, sorting, mixing and experimenting, and tell Nicole Weinstein what they found.
Under the arches or in a giant aviary, it's a long way from when the water supply was a pond School buildings
The chief executives of two of the largest nursery chains talk to Simon Vevers about the challenges their businesses are facing Harsh commercial conditions, partly prompted by Government initiatives,...
Use a favourite picture book both to learn about birds and to explore feelings with these project suggestions from Judith Stevens Projects should always be informed by observations and planned to...
Follow the direction of children's natural interests in line patterns and trajectory movements to take their learning further across the curriculum, says Diana Lawton When provision is rich and...