Most early years settings have a collection of musical instruments suitable for children to play. All too often, though, I notice instruments tossed rather carelessly into baskets or on to trolleys,...
If your fingers are still itching to do arts and crafts after our activities feature (see page 12), look up the website www.docrafts.co.uk or get the first issue of Docrafts magazine. It's packed with...
(Photograph) - One-year-old Kali Cox and Polly the doll are modelling cotton nappies for For Under Fives at Lincoln County Hospital Day Nursery. The nursery is taking part in 'Real Nappy Week' (23-29...
(Photograph) - Damon Britton, otherwise known as Dom in the TV series 'Byker Grove', plants a flower with four-year-old Oliver Thompson at the Riverside Centre Nursery in North Shields, Tyneside,...
Nursery World readers could win a free copy of 'Baa Baa and the Three Bears and Other Stories', the latest video of the educational MacDonald's Farm TV programme. The video, suitable for children aged...
Use our directory to help you access the many short courses and workshops designed to keep early years professionals up to the minute with good practice across all aspects of provision from management...
* We have five copies each of Baby Says - Hooray, Baby Says - Hello, Baby Says - Love You and Baby Says - Bye-Bye by Opal Dunn (Hodder Children's Books, 3.99 each) to give away to Nursery World...
The Nanny Diaries has just been published by Penguin at 6.99, but we have five free copies of the book to give away free to Professional Nanny readers. Just send your name and address on the back of a...
Holi The Hindu celebration of Holi, which falls this year on 28 March, is a spring festival, in which people give thanks for the first harvest of the year or pray for a good harvest to come. It is...
PART 24:23 months old The (sometimes) literal understanding and interpretation of a toddler was demonstrated beautifully one evening this month when Jasmine was being put to bed. Her usual routine is...