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The recent ‘Bold Beginnings’ report by Ofsted has only added to the uncertainty about what is expected of children in their first year of school. Charlotte Goddard investigates
Giving parents the hours of childcare they want doesn't always mesh with what an early years setting is able to offer. Melanie Defries hears how nursery practitioners handle it.
14 December. Practical life activities - with a winter theme This course by Ranelagh House considers the importance of reality-based play by exploring the aims and principles of practical life...
Increasing the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds from 15 to 25 hours a week and charging parents 1 an hour for the extra ten hours, is a key recommendation in a report by the Resolution...
To create a communication rich environment for their charges, Norland Nursery staff studied their own communication patterns. By Clare Crowther
What would you do if a case of swine flu came too close to your nursery for comfort? Sue Learner hears about good practices.
See how children can learn about how the environment works while recycling their nursery food waste, as Sue Learner did.
A research paper published earlier this year has major implications for the early years because of the challenges it makes to some of the ideas that have become 'best practice', says Julian Grenier
The ways infants learn to make speech and understand languge give fascinating insights into brain function, says Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
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...