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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Ideas for sharing Tommy Thumb, from Penny Tassoni

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of learning - D is for… dyeing, dens and dance

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Practitioners at Rachel Keeling Nursery School explain how they have encouraged creativity and other skills through the use of dyes, den-building and dancing activities

Covid’s economic impact

Opinion

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Families are experiencing mixed fortunes during the coronavirus crisis – and it is lower-income households that are hardest hit, says our columnist Karl Handscomb

Seasonal cooking: Courgette and lime cake

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

A tasty courgette cake to make the most of seasonal produce.

EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… crossing mud

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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The problem of having to cross an area of mud led to children making and using ladders and ropes. By Annette Rawstrone

Interview - Dr Jo Casebourne, Early Intervention Foundation

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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A joint report from the EIF and Action for Children warns the recovery from Covid-19 will have a knock-on effect for early help services for young children and their families.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Back in business

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Happy Hearts Nursery in Kensington has reopened after its new owner had to close the setting soon after buying it.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: On parade

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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The Parade Community Preschool Hilsea Portsmouth has been open throughout lockdown, supporting key workers and vulnerable children.

Coronavirus - Reopening the doors

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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From enhanced risk assessment to making the practicalities work, Hopscotch’s Laura Hoyland explains how her nursery has welcomed back more children

Coronavirus Pandemic - 6 things you need to know about… Parent Anxieties

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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The strangeness of settings in ‘the new normal’ is just one concern that parents have about sending their children back to nursery or school – but keeping them at home is not worry-free either. Caroline Vollans reports

Call for 'urgent' funding for maintained nursery schools

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Early education experts and teaching unions have written a joint letter to the prime minister with an urgent request for extra immediate and long-term funding for maintained nursery schools.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: Star photo - True colours

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Ellesmere Children’s Centre’s team have made a video, called ‘We sparkle in colour’.

Childcare Counsel - new furlough rules

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Hannah Belton, director and head of employment law at Morgan LaRoche, on how the furlough scheme is changing

EYFS best practice in schools - Together again

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Preparing for September’s Year 1 starters, many of whom have had Reception curtailed, is changing the way some schools approach their curriculum. Charlotte Goddard reports

Coronavirus: Nurseries use hi-tech systems to reassure parents sending children to settings is safe

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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As lockdown eases, early years settings are finding that they need to adapt to stay open in a changing environment.

Around the Nursery, part 10 - In their Prime?

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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How settings can meet the requirements of the Prime areas of the EYFS in the baby room. By Penny Tassoni

Coronavirus Resources - Coming clean

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

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Settings are going to great efforts to ensure their enabling environments contain rich, stimulating resources, despite the constraints of Covid-19, Nicole Weinstein finds

Kate Green named shadow education secretary

Monday, June 29, 2020

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Kate Green, Labour MP for Stretford and Urmston, was appointed shadow education secretary over the weekend.

Fears parents will be driven to use unregulated childcare

Monday, June 29, 2020

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Anticipated mass nursery and childminder closures could result in desperate parents putting their children at risk by unwittingly resorting to unregulated childcare, warns the Regulation Matters (RM) Campaign.

Coronavirus: Parents want fewer days in the office but struggle without childcare in pandemic

Monday, June 29, 2020

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Lockdown has led almost half of working parents to consider requesting more flexible working arrangements but parents strongly recognise that they need childcare support in order to work effectively, research by Bright Horizons Work+Family Solutions has found.

#StandUpForEarlyYears: 'my staff deserve recognition'

Monday, June 29, 2020

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One manager thanks her staff for all their extra work and dedication.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders face huge financial losses, analysis finds

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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Parents returning to work in the wake of the lockdown may struggle to find childcare places, as a new report reveals the impact of the pandemic on nurseries, pre-schools and childminders.

Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked as shadow education secretary

Thursday, June 25, 2020

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Labour leader Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey after she shared an 'antisemitic conspiracy theory' on Twitter.

Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021