By Alison Street, author of Singing together for 1 and 2 and co-author of Voiceplay Songs to help things happen
The quality of training providers and of assessment is more important in ensuring that the Level 2 certificate and Level 3 diploma produce competent learners than the content of the qualification,...
* Snack Time by Jenni Clarke (from the Key Issues Series by Featherstone Education 9.99, www.featherstone.uk.com) features snack food ideas and related activities to promote food awareness in a fun...
Test your knowledge of child development, the value of play in the early years and the role of observing and assessing young children, by answering true or false. By early years authors Jackie Harding...
Provided by Tristian Strover, chef at Tootsies Day Nursery, Farnham, Surrey
A First French Story - Leo le chat comes to play by Opal Dunn and Cathy Gale (Frances Lincoln, 10.99) is a bilingual story about Leo, a French cat, who is invited to play by an English-speaking...
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.
Explore feelings and promote sharing with cuddly activities from Helen Shelbourne inspired by a classic children's book Acharming story with a variety of themes that can be developed in children's...
Laing and Buison has pointed out two statistical errors in its Children's Nurseries 2004 report (News, 4 March). Philip Blackburn, senior economist at Laing and Buisson, said, 'The total capacity in...
* A consultation on the use of alternative phrases to make warnings about the contents of food more explicit to allergy sufferers has been launched by the Food Standards Agency. The FSA said consumers...