Quick Sausage Casserole Ingredients: 450g pork, Quorn, or chicken or turkey sausages, 25g cooking margarine, 1 onion, 2 carrots, 1 tin chopped tomatoes, 1tbsp tomato puree, 11/2 pint vegetable or...
Making simple cookery a priority in your club can also lead to healthier eating, advises Fiona Hamilton-Fairley. it is not often that I meet a child who doesn't like cooking. I can still remember the...
The baker's shop offers scope to introduce simple cookery as well as buying and selling role play Many children may have little or no experience of shops that sell specific foods, such as a butcher's,...
An awarding body, training providers, colleges and nursery owners are united in their opinion that new GCSE rules designed to improve standards aren't working. Hannah Crown investigates.
With levels of childhood obesity alarmingly high, the increased threat of diabetes needs to be taken seriously. Penny Vevers reports When doctors in the UKreported the first four cases of very...
I have been a classroom assistant for just over a year. I love my job, but in no way do I think it compares to the teacher's role in the classroom. In my opinion it is an insult to teachers to suggest...
The situation is more nuanced than the headlines suggest, but Ofsted must evolve to meet both providers' and parents' needs
In our National Strategies series Dr Andrew Lockett, Early Years Regional Adviser (NE), Anne Lamb, Early Years Senior Regional Adviser (EE M) and Jan Lepley, Senior Adviser, reflect on the importance...
Dr Richard House argues that the decision of the teaching unions to speak out against recent Government moves could prove a turning point for the early years sector.