Effective literacy teaching involves much more than synthetic phonics, explains Annette Rawstrone
The ability to control emotional and physical impulses should be developed in the early years to help ensure children embrace learning and grow into self-regulating adults.
Adopting a key person approach requires careful preparation and organisation by the staff team in any setting, as well as reviewing practice once they have started using it, writes Anne O'Connor.
Using pictures of young children usually brings a happy response, but before you let them be taken in your setting there are certain procedures to follow, as Viv Hampshire explains.
A series of complaints lodged against the BBC by a Manchester nursery and some of its staff who were secretly filmed for a TV documentary have been upheld by the media regulator Ofcom.
Have you organised a flexible learning environment where: * children can learn in varied ways, indoors and out?
By Nancy Boyd Webb (The Guilford Press, 36.95, ISBN 9781609186432)
Why is mark making an important form of early writing and how can practitioners support and resource for it in their settings? Penny Tassoni investigates
In the second part of his series exploring the revised Development Matters guidance, Dr Julian Grenier looks at the newly included terms ‘curriculum’ and ‘pedagogy’ and explains what they mean in the...