Sharing Practice Ideas and Creativity in Early Years (SPICE) Annual Conference
Hanukkah * The Jewish festival of Hanukkah, this year on 10 December, celebrates the victory of the Jewish Maccabees over the Syrians and the reclamation of the Jerusalem temple. A rekindled lamp...
Making Literacy Real: Theories and practices for learning and teaching. By Joanne Larson and Jackie Marsh. (Sage, 19.99, 020 7324 8500, 1 4129 0331 9) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early...
* Value the physical care routines; personal and affectionate care is central to children's sense of security. * Take your time in care and other activities with children. Babies and toddlers who are...
By Harriet Price, ICT advisor, Homerton Nursery and Early Years Centre, Cambridge Interactive whiteboards (IWB) are an excellent tool for early years, when a few basic principles of learning are...
One of the key findings of recent Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) research (Technical Paper 10, DfES/Institute of Education, 2003, London) is that, 'Good outcomes for children are...
Randolph Beresford Nursery School & Children's Centre London
Help children to understand concepts such as tall and short, and learn about the animals of Africa with these absorbing activities by Helen Shelbourne Jane Hissey's Jolly Tall (Red Fox, 4.99) is one...