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Orchestral musicians are to visit settings in a new venture called Bach to School, from classical concert series Bach to Baby.
Big name back-up with the individual care of locally run settings has proved a recipe for success for Casterbridge. Annette Rawstrone reports.
To be meaningful, role play needs to build on children's experiences Role play can be a valuable means for children to explore their feelings and ideas and to revisit experiences. To ensure that these...
In the first of a new series on good leadership and management under the Education Inspection Framework, Annette Rawstrone finds staff must understand the ‘why’
By Professor Colin Blakemore, director of the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, from a lecture given last month at the RSA in London All the evidence that's been published shows that formal...
A 175-a-week cap on the amount nurseries can charge for a full daycare place if they want to access financial support for recruitment and training through the Transformation Fund has raised fears that...
Mary Garry runs Sighthill Nursery in Glasgow, a stand-alone maintained nursery school which takes 80 children in both the morning and afternoon. The nursery takes children from the families of foreign...