Mary Evans outlines how nursery managers now have a bigger responsibility to ensure that all employees are suitable to work with young children and can fulfil the new requirements.
Ensuring enjoyment, challenge and meaning in children’s mark-making. By Penny Tassoni
* We have ten copies of Billy's Bucket written by Kes Gray and illustrated by Garry Parsons (Red Fox, 5.99) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard...
We have two lunch baskets (Asco, 13.95) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Lunch basket', to the address on page 3....
Part 2: Trainee EYT Emma Davis considers finding evidence for teachers' standards as she comes to the end of her first term at university
The rattle is a favourite gift for a newborn baby, but did you know that these simple toys go back as far as the second century BC? Long ago they were made from dried gourds or hollowed-out bones and...
The childminding profession - and its status as a profession is certainly on the rise - is at a crucial stage of development, as our Special Report 'Strength in numbers' (pages 10-11) this week...
The national bookgifting scheme has been preserved in reduced form. Viv Hampshire looks at the benefits it still offers children.
We have one wooden bucket balance (Hope, 39.95) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'bucket balance', to the address on page...