* More than 60 examples of imaginative and interesting places for play in Europe and the UK have been put online by Places for Play at www.freeplaynetwork.org.uk/playlink/exhibition. The exhibition...
The Foundation Stage Teacher in Action: Teaching 3, 4 and 5 year olds By Margaret Edgington
The Code of Practice for the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds is published today, giving parents the right for the first time to ask their local authority to find them free childcare...
Being outdoors provides children with developmental benefits that cannot be replicated indoors. Kathryn Solly reveals how to get it right
Keith Archer's comments ('In my view', 15 December) are true for many private children's establishments. I was not consulted on a 50-place children's centre opening 200 yards away from my nursery. I...
How can practitioners best support children in thinking creatively and critically, asks Helen Moylett in the final part of this series.
Changes to the way Kent County Council administers funding for free early education could see parents of three-and four-year-olds losing out on free nursery places and having to wait until January...
Every five-year-old in the country would get a free dental check-up at school under a Conservative Government, shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley has pledged. Children would be shown how to brush...
Meg Barclay, educational consultant and early years reviewer for the School Library Association, reviews books that support children to cope with change in various forms, and learn about the...
By Kathryn Solly, headteacher of Chelsea Open Air Nursery School in London My background in education has centred on environmental science and outdoor play. Although I thoroughly understand the...