Bickley Park School nursery in Bromley has been shortlisted for a Perrys Exceptional Community Award for its initiative to bridge the gap between age groups through regular visits to the Crown Meadow...
Becoming an older sibling can be difficult for children to deal with. Rachel Howe explores how practitioners and parents can help
'The earlier the better' when applied to young children learning to read is an orthodoxy that needs to be challenged, says Dr Sebastian Suggate.
Principle * Providing activities based on first-hand experiences that encourage exploration, observation, problem solving, prediction, critical thinking, decision making and discussion (p82)
To give children the satisfaction of creating something for themselves, why not initiate them into the ancient craft of French knitting? Here Christine Green explains how Knitting is making a...
The growth in nursery provision and its attendant recruitment crisis has forced up wages for nursery nurses, a new survey shows. But it's still low pay, says Ruth Thomson
Literacy for young children today means more than reading and writing alphabet letters, says Opal Dunn in the final part of her series on books for birth to threes.
Childcare ratios have been a hot topic since former minister Liz Truss opened this particular Pandora’s Box in 2013. Jo Parkes looks at what we can learn from comparable systems abroad