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The foundation stage curriculum, like its predecessor, is organised into six areas of learning to help practitioners plan appropriate activities and experiences for children in their setting. Yet the...
Stephen Glen-Lee, nursery manager at Bo'ness Public Primary School in Bo'ness, Falkirk, is pioneering the way for men's careers in childcare. Mr Glen-Lee first came to the school in 1998 as a teacher...
'The earlier the better' when applied to young children learning to read is an orthodoxy that needs to be challenged, says Dr Sebastian Suggate.
Following the announcements made in the Chancellor’s Autumn Spending Review, Dr Jo Verrill, managing director of research agency Ceeda, examines how providers will be affected financially
I think it's a real shame that Britain is having to look further afield for childcare workers (News, 10 January). I knew it would only be a matter of time, as it has happened already with the nurses,...
Children from Dunning Primary School's infant class found their new project, 'Farming in the Past', coming to life when they visited Angus Folk Museum in Glamis as part of the museum's Children's...
The City and childcare have not until now been terms associated much with each other - except in that workers in the first sector tend to need a lot of what the second sector provides. But things are...
As if low pay and status were not big enough problems in retaining nursery staff, a surprising and intriguing finding from new research by the Thomas Coram Research Unit highlights another reason why...
Choose the right resources to give children an environment that is mathematically rich The curriculum for the Foundation Stage expects, among other things, that children's mathematical understanding...
27 FEBRUARY. 'Spoilt Rotten' (ITV 1, 9 to 10pm). This documentary looks at how children nowadays are becoming increasingly sophisticated when it comes to consumer goods and how their parents are being...