The children will love making these tactile puppets and learning some French at the same time. Each set contains two fabric faces measuring 22cm in diameter, ten Velcro facial features and six labels...
For a long time, the protests about the provision in the national care standards to allow childminders to smack the children in their care and smoke in front of them with parental permission seemed to...
The current climate is not proving too comfortable for the private nursery sector. A recent survey has shown occupancy in nurseries continuing to fall, with dangerously low levels in some parts of the...
Great news for the many early years practitioners who care for the rising number of babies and toddlers in daycare settings, with the launch of Birth to Three Matters: a framework to support children...
In England, all primary school children must have homework, so an after-school care team needs to think carefully about what support and facilities they offer for it, says Jennie Lindon. In England,...
Pots and pans are too versatile a resource to be confined to the kitchen. Jean Evans shows why
The new roles for teaching assistants envisaged by the DfES are explained by Ruth Thomson The career cul-de-sac that has trapped classroom assistants for decades in low-paid and often unrewarding...
It might seem like just another round of hand-washing, but for a young child, daily routines are a source of learning, writes <B> Jennie Lindon </B>
Children learning English need lots of time to assimilate the language before they speak it A child learns a second language in much the same way that they learned their first language. Practitioners...
A lot hangs on the success of the Early Years Single Funding Formula to deliver sustainability when it comes to the free entitlement.