Three months of free activities for children in Trafalgar Square begin from this weekend with a children's art day. The event is the first in the fourth annual programme of events in central London,...
The UK private nursery sector is now worth a staggering 2bn, an increase of 72 per cent since 2000. But the 2004 Market Assessment report by market analysts Key Note has warned that the falling birth...
Last-minute preparations for end-of-term activities and the start of the summer holidays will be uppermost in early years practitioners' minds at the moment, but don't forget to lay plans for next...
We hope that you will forgive us a little bit of self-congratulation this week, as Nursery World celebrates its 80th birthday. We feel very proud to remain as the market-leading title for early years...
To give children the satisfaction of creating something for themselves, why not initiate them into the ancient craft of French knitting? Here Christine Green explains how Knitting is making a...
A petition of over 32,000 signatures calling for free school meals to be expanded is being delivered to Parliament by Barnardo’s and actress and ambassador Michelle Collins today (2 March).
By Maureen Smith and Yvonne Nolan, co-founders of Duo Consulting and developers of the new APEL qualification APEL Level 3 Certificate in work with children(Early Years or Playwork), Unit 2: reflect...
By Ross Midgley, director of Crocus Early Years Centre, Essex I cannot comment on Jean Brown's Ofsted inspection, although after reading her 'In my view' (Nursery World, 27 January, page 35) I looked...
Girls continue to do better than boys in every area of learning before they are five, the latest national results of the Foundation Stage Profile show. The statistics for 2005, published by the DfES...