The UK’s largest nursery group Busy Bees has launched a new training programme to help practitioners to develop children’s early language skills.
A revised framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage brought out by the DfES emphasises a commitment to personalised learning for children from birth to five years. From autumn 2008, providers...
Don't forget! The deadline for the Nursery World Awards 2016 is 5pm today (Friday 27 May).
Boys should be encouraged to take part in role-play involving superheroes and toy guns, according to new advice from the Government.
The Nursery World Awards 2019, the leading accolades for the early years sector, are now officially open, and it’s time to start working on your entries.
If it's been on your to-do list, and even if it hasn't, don't worry – there's still time to enter this year's Nursery World Awards and claim your place in the spotlight!
With digital technology now an integral part of children's everyday lives, settings must consider how they can best use it to support learning. Dr Christine Stephen draws on 15 years of research to...
Two girls' conversation about the moon led to their whole nursery investigating Earth's natural satellite, facilitated by an enquiry-based approach that followed the children's interests. The Growing...
- How to be a Baby by Me The Big Sister by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap; Walker Books, hardback, 10.99
Maggie Dyer cannot have been following all the correspondence on Nursery World's letters page over the past few months. Registered childminders do not smack the children they look after, nor smoke in...