Nathan Ashworth, age three, shows off the catch of the day at Busy Bees Preston Hospital nursery, after a visit from nutritionist Ady Delaney, the founder of Eat Right UK.
A shortage of childcare places in their local area is cited by nearly half of all parents in Wales in research carried out by NatCen for the Welsh Assembly Government. It found evidence of a...
Childcare partnerships have been praised by the Scottish Executive for putting in an 'extraordinary' amount of work throughout a period of 'immense upheaval', and producing significant results. The...
Once practitioners are confident that they have a proper understanding of a child's schemas, they need to plan how to promote that child's learning. Part of the planning process will be to set the...
The value of learning through play is not as obvious to many parents as it is to professionals. Mary Evans tells how you can help them appreciate this important concept Parents naturally want the best...
Tricia Pritchard Professional officer at the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN), and chair of Playpen
Now that you are ready to develop your outdoor area, check that you will be making the most of it and of your own responsibilities as an educator The real challenge in outdoor learning is in the...
In the second part of our feature on early years careers, Patricia Slatcher talks to the staff of nursery classes and schools as well as day centres in the maintained sector Nursery classes and...
Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Belfast last Friday to call for an end to sectarianism in Northern Ireland. The demonstration was organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and...
Both children and staff can reap the reward of having grannies coming in to work in a pre-school setting, writes Eve Boggenpoel As part of its campaign, 'Changing lives, changing life', which aims to...