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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.
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...
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...
Making bookmarks during a 'night and day' topic provided an ideal opportunity for our children to develop their manipulative skills and to learn how to handle books with understanding. Planned...
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No matter how many exciting activities you arrange, the children in your care are still bound to spend some of their time in front of the TV - so here are a few ideas for using television to create...