To be meaningful, role play needs to build on children's experiences Role play can be a valuable means for children to explore their feelings and ideas and to revisit experiences. To ensure that these...
The transition to formal learning needs to be handled with sensitivity to help children and parents adapt, says Working Mum.
Different language rules and cultural attitudes to how children learn provide some valuable insights for practitioners working with bilingual children. Professor Elena Lieven explains.
Over the past 18 months, we have been pitched into a situation where we seem to constantly swim against a relentless tide of inappropriate policy ‘initiatives’.
From 2002-15, the Froebel Research Fellowship project focused on children's creative thinking and learning. David Hargreaves, Sue Robson, Sue Greenfield and Hiroko Fumoto share their findings.
A new set of guidelines for everyone working with babies and toddlers draws together research and guidance from several countries. Juliet Hancock explains what it's designed to offer 'It is the...
Young children and their parents are the stars of a music and rhyme programme run by Michele Wills and Sue Rogers that's helping Sure Start to reach its aims How can you promote speech and language...
We are keen to clarify any confusion that PANN's letter ('A nanny is a nanny', 23 September) may have caused about NCMA's new membership package for nannies. So, for the record: * NCMA never has been...
Scotland is the home of golf, so it is fitting that the management committee of Carnoustie Golf Links - which has hosted the British Open Championship - has donated golf equipment to local...
As a pre-school and a charity we believe we are here as a resource to the community around us - and that means being unable to charge a large amount for children attending the pre-school. I want to...