During your inspection it is important to show that children are confident about communicating with staff. Laura Henry suggests undertaking an audit to gauge the quality of interactions.
Exploring Montessori - with its focus on nurturing the whole person in a well-planned learning environment - can offer lessons for all of us. Marianne Sargent takes a look.
Using gestures and facial expressions to accompany speech will help babies become skillful communicators as they begin to learn to talk. Opal Dunn explains how Body language, including facial...
More effort should be made to include children under eight in both private and public decisions, according to a new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
How the tactile sense develops in young children, and its purpose in relation to physical and emotional health. By Anne O’Connor and Dr Kath Dickinson
We present a wide range of courses to provide you with the tools for teaching in the early years sector BEAM Education is running day courses on:
A revised strategy to reduce child poverty is to be set out by the Department for Work and Pensions in response to recommendations made by the Govern- ments child poverty tsar, Lisa Harker.
In this instalment of her series on groundbreaking thinkers in the early years, Linda Pound discusses Swiss educator Johann Pestalozzi, the ‘starting point of modern educational theory and practice’
Nursery schools provide a valuable service to poor areas, but they have the potential to offer far more. Professor Helen Penn reports Nursery schools represent an important tradition in early years...