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Margaret Hodge has returned to the early years sector to find that the issue of low pay for childcare staff is still very much live and kicking. She was tackled about the problems during her speech to...
A resource package that reuses scrap and unwanted equipment is set to bring many benefits to nurseries. Ruth Thomson reports.
Nursery schools across Northern Ireland have been badly affected by the ongoing work to rule by teachers, which could lead to redundancies if it continues much longer, the National Association of Head...
In the face of much concern about some aspects of the draft Early Years Foundation Stage, welcome news came this week that the Department for Education and Skills is proposing to put back the...
The special report on reception classes and the Foundation Stage ('Tear down the walls', 23 November) repeated yet again what is rapidly becoming a dangerously misleading myth - that the Government's...
An awareness of pattern is fundamental to a child's learning in the early years. The early learning goal relating to pattern - 'talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns'- falls within...
It is a worrying development that, having just established the early years as a separate stage, there are now Government moves afoot to include it in the National Curriculum (News, 19 and 26...
At Cockfield Primary School nursery class we have been developing resources in our outdoor area to include exciting new learning opportunities across all areas of the curriculum, says Judith Cowley....
These dark spaces hold the promise of adventure for children and can promote fun, learning and creativity, says Marianne Sargent.
In our series on preparing for Ofsted inspections, Laura Henry explains how to help children make a positive contribution The fourth of the five outcomes by which Ofsted will inspect early years...