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The role of play in young children's learning is finding new defenders around the world. Ruth Thomson hears some of the latest thinking.
The team and children at Treetops nursery in Belper, Derbyshire have created a community fairy garden.
Staff-to-child ratios, and more importantly, staff qualifications and in-service training can predict the quality of pre-school childcare settings, a new study has found.
Are children too busy? Anne Purdon reflects on her year’s sabbatical in Albania and compares the free-time activity choices of third culture kids (TCKs) growing up in Albania with children in the...
As schools in England set out to fulfill the aims of the Government's new Extended Schools programme, they could look to Scotland for a working model, as Mary Evans reports
If babies had words for their feelings, what would they say? Lisa Murray took their viewpoint to create a resource for parents.
The work of Carol Dweck tells us that encouraging a particular way of thinking - that talent and intelligence are not 'fixed' - can make all the difference to how children learn. Jan Dubiel...
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.
Headteachers must be equipped for a public community role if they are to effectively lead extended schools, according to a senior researcher at the thinktank Demos. John Craig, who has carried out...
Nine nurseries have been ‘named and shamed’ on the latest minimum wage offenders list. How did they get there, and how easy was it to fall foul of the rules? Ruth Stokes reports