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The developmental characteristics of four- and five-year-old pre-schoolers' drawing The drawings of 17 children in the USwere analysed at ages four and five. At both ages the most commonly used...
Sure Start's own beginnings perhaps didn't live up to the programme's name, being rather shaky and unclear, but since 1999 the Government's scheme to improve the health and well-being of children in...
Margaret Mason is founder and chief executive of Children 1st Day Nurseries, which now runs 20 settings after acquiring two nurseries in Leek, Staffordshire
It's not usual to have five-year-olds and 15-year-olds in the same storytelling workshop.
To do a degree, the university usually asks for A-levels, GCSEs, experience etc. So what is your guess for the childcare degree? NVQ3 or equivalent maybe? Post-qualifying experience? Wrong! An NVQ 2...
Further to Annette McGullion's letter (16 May), I felt she took both Helen Wright's and my name in vain. My original letter (25 April) was concerned with the low pay and status of teaching assistants,...
Looking back, the appointment of Elizabeth Truss as parliamentary under-secretary of state for education and childcare has had a certain inevitability about it.
It's great to communicate... Miranda Walker shows you how to edit a club magazine and produce your own news programme in the first of a two-part feature on exploring the media. Making a magazine is a...
If we want to preserve our valuable early years services, we must seek to influence politicians, says Dr Julian Grenier, national chair of Early Education
In response to Gillian Dickson's letter (13 September) asking who remembers their nursery teacher - I certainly do! I am now 35 years young and started playgroup, as it was then, when I was three. It...