An evaluation of the second round of the 30 hours pilot found the majority of providers were willing and able to offer the extended entitlement, says the DfE.
<P> In her second article on children's dispositions, Anne O'Connor considers how early years practitioners can help children to be enthusiastic about learnin </P>
Help the children get to grips with wooden objects and with paper in more project ideas from Jean Evans Activity 1
Zaynah is the first child to feature in our series on the Celebrating Young Children project by Jane Cole, regional adviser for the Foundation Stage Zaynah was the first child in her family so her...
A campaign group concerned with early language is to create a new national measurement of children’s reading.
Nursery and primary school children can learn about tooth care from the 'Tooth Time' pack produced by the British Dental Health Foundation. The pack includes a topic web outlining integration with all...
With local authority training increasingly scarce, and policy changes leading to new CPD priorities, Meredith Jones Russell looks at how early years providers are responding.
Risk is often associated with danger, but too much safety can create problems of its own. Helen Tovey looks at how to get the balance right.
It’s not just the articles in Nursery World that provide a fascinating record of social history, the advertisements also show how life – and shopping – has changed over the years