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The Scottish Executive is to spread synthetic phonics teaching across Scotland. The method teaches children to blend letter sounds to form words and has been found to advance children's reading and...
Northern Ireland and England have been ranked among the top ten countries in the world for reading and literacy.
The UK's school system would rank higher in international league tables if the universal entitlement to free nursery places had been set up in the 1990s, new research suggests.
Early years consultant Margaret Edgington has started a petition seeking to protect the Foundation Stage for three- to five-year-olds, which has a firm emphasis on learning through play, from the more...
Developing children's emotional literacy and social understanding of their peers has become crucial to the early years inclusion policy of one London borough. The Playing and Learning to Socialise...
Nell McAndrew, the prototype for Tomb Raider Lara Croft, swaps ball skills with a young sports fan at a SOCATOTS open day held at Leeds Metropolitan University. SOCATOTS is a soccer-specific physical...
I am a playgroup supervisor. About six months ago I attended a course on communication, language and literacy in the Foundation Stage. A nursery nurse on the course told us that one morning a...
Aprominent early years consultant has expressed her disappointment at the Government's response to her petition protesting about the national literacy strategy. Margaret Edgington said she was 'not at...
A petition seeking to protect the Foundation Stage, with its clear emphasis on learning through play, from the more formal approach of the national literacy and numeracy strategies, has attracted...