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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...
I am an NNEB employed as a nursery assistant in a Northern Ireland primary school with a nursery unit for three-and four-year-olds. I am supposed to assist the teacher but over the last few years have...
How should early years settings be contributing to the 'local offer' for children with special educational needs and disabilities? Dr Kay Mathieson offers some guidance.
Can it be proved that babies don't need the exclusive care of their mothers? Dr Tony Munton considers what constitutes quality care Huge rises in the number of lone parents and women in work have...
Has the slimmed-down Understanding the World impacted on teaching and learning? And what can we do to ensure we inspire children's interests and consolidate their knowledge? Lena Engel writes the...
The revised Early Years Foundation Stage and its Characteristics of Effective Learning provide an opportunity to change practice in Key Stage 1 - and the new Ofsted inspection framework allows...
Extending free provision to 15 hours a week for three- and four-year-olds will be piloted in several 'pathfinder' local authorities, according to the Government's action plan for implementing the...
Make plans over time for one of the most important areas of a setting's provision with this advice from Jane Drake Long-term planning