Early years providers are facing a real-term cut in funding to deliver three and four-year-old places in 2015/16, amid increases to business and running costs.
Part 4: Trainee EYT Emma Davis gives wrapping paper a maths focus and has to contend with an observation on her first day back
Alysha Birtles from Tiddlywinks Nursery Group in Ancoats has achieved her Elklan Level 4 qualification and obtained the setting’s Communication Friendly status.
Unlimited fun is at your fingertips with endless variations on a homemade plaything suggested by Meg Jones What shall we do today? As Homer Simpson might reply, 'Doh!' For many generations one of the...
Thinking of opening another nursery? Noella Pio Kivlehan suggests ways to deal with the obstacles along the way - from local residents' opposition to the minefield of council planning departments...
A two-year pilot that made free school meals available for all primary pupils significantly improved children's attainment, with children making between four and eight weeks more progress than is...
* Child Base, the UK's ninth largest nursery chain, has raised more than 37,000 for children's charity When You Wish Upon a Star, which helps children with terminal illnesses. Children and staff from...
An elephant has joined the children at Stonegate Pre-School in East Sussex.
From home to the home corner: observing children's identity-maintenance in early childhood settings. Discusses two studies: one of children in a Korean private kindergarten, the other of children in a...