Plans for a cross-cutting review of the early years sector in England have been revealed in more detail by early years and childcare minister Catherine Ashton (News, 15 November). She told the Daycare...
Storyboxes and Come Alive Stories are two new products from Yellow Door, a company producing resources for Foundation and KS1. The Storyboxes are designed to develop oral storytelling, literacy and...
Staff at the 60-place Birrell Collection Nursery School in Edinburgh met nursery nurses and teachers from Iceland earlier this month on a visit organised by www.scottishnurseries.com, a website about...
Penny Tassoni has ideas for reading Baby Day with the youngest children
Mary Llewellin puts some extra veg into the meatballs
Within its response to a petition against changing ratios, the Government has explained its rationale behind proposals to raise the number of two-year-olds that one member of staff can care for in...
The pipeline feeding Level 3 childcare staff into the sector is drying up, and we have the data to prove it. Hannah Crown speaks to a sector in crisis
Is there a gap in your bike collection? If there is, it's likely to be between the 20" size and 24" size - 20" wheels may be too small for some of the children in your group, while 24" is likely to...
* A meningitis risk at a nursery in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, is being investigated after a two-year-old boy who attended it died on Sunday 17 August. A second child from the nursery is seriously...
Put your best foot forward and help the children in your care design a sock for charity. The Starlight Children's Foundation, which provides fun, support and therapy for seriously and terminally ill...