Ways to guide and monitor early years settings on good practice in healthy eating are outlined by community dietician Amanda Price To help meet targets on childhood obesity, Bromley Primary Care Trust...
Isabel Mohan, head of content at Tiney, writes an open letter in appreciation of early years professionals as she reflects on life in lockdown with two young children
Children are naturally averse to eating unfamiliar vegetables, but there are tactics that families and practitioners can use to encourage them. Meredith Jones Russell reports
With children’s health at the top of the agenda, Nicole Weinstein looks at everyday and bought resources, and activities, for gross motor development
Reflective practice is embedded in early years provision, but is not always easy to achieve. Educational psychologist Anita Soni describes a project in Birmingham that uses video to help practitioners...
Gravity and magnetism have the potential to show children how they can physically influence the world around them. Take advantage this September when there is a ‘supermoon’. By Julie Mountain and...
EYPP interventions depend on quality interactions for maximum impact – and settings taking a holistic approach are training staff in shared thinking and language skills, Charlotte Goddard reports
Dolls came into their own as children's playthings at the end of the 17th century. Since then their popularity has grown rapidly, so make sure you equip your nursery with plenty of appealing dolls...
Sand and water are vital tools through which you can teach maths, art and science, and they provide younger children with new experiences of texture and cause and effect - they are also the source of...
Would you rather a state-of-the-art office or a 'cupboard'? Two nursery managers describe their working environment to Nicole Weinstein.