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Try light sensory activities by putting a disco light and lava lamp (out of the reach of the babies) in a dim room and using different colours of chiffon type material and waving it slowly, allowing...
Construction play – what it is, its developmental benefits, and how settings can best provide, support and resource for it. By Penny Tassoni
As I type this I am looking out at a snowy scene in the centre of London. It's not what I anticipated when leaving the 'frozen north' a few months ago to join the team at London Early Years...
Pattern-spotting and decomposition are two of the six fundamental skills required for computational thinking. Marc Faulder examines how they best fit with what is already practised in the early years
Modern qualifications allocate hundreds of hours to placements, but how useful are they to managers? Jackie Musgrave and Nicola Stobbs, authors of a book looking at early years placements, explain.
With bank lending falling since the financial crisis and cuts to local authority budgets taking hold, early years providers are beginning to turn to crowdfunding as a way of raising cash. Katy...
Kezia Thurgood-Parkes completes a first year at Sheffield Hallam, talks assignments...and being thrown in at the deep end
Sites such as Twitter and Facebook are valuable sources of information for journalists. Kate Tyler offers some advice for getting noticed.
The choice of playmates in different contexts reveals interesting issues about friendship and about gender to Dr Maria Robinson.
Fat is an important part of young children's diet, but which fats should children be eating? And which ones should be avoided? Nicole Weinstein finds out.