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Positive Steps Nursery has set up a children's council to help plan their activities. Marianne Sargent reports.
Organising children to sing songs along to actions or stories is the focus of another movement session by Helen Bilton.
Three children's charities have challenged the leading political parties in England to prove their commitment to children in the forthcoming General Election. The charities, the NSPCC, Barnardo's and...
Children need an enthusiastic mediator if they are to develop a love for books. Opal Dunn explains how to help under-threes build a solid foundation for literacy Parents and carers often feel...
Mathematical development and music go hand in hand, with the latter enabling us to take pleasure in exploring the abstract subject, says Linda Pound
How noisy is your workplace? From February next year the new European Noise Directive will come into force, setting decibel limits and requiring 'noise risk assessments' (see News, page 8). There's no...
Young children need policy-making that transforms early years education and care, argue Pat Tomlinson and Chelle Davison
Most of us have forgotten how we learned to read, although we may have some distant memories of school reading books. As with many other areas of development, reading doesn't just happen. Your child...
While take-up of school meals has nearly doubled under the universal infant free school meal (UIFSM) policy, its introduction has affected schools’ pupil premium funding.
Making authentic links between reading and talking has been helping early years practitioners and teachers to develop children's communication, language and literacy. Di Chilvers explains.