Play should be a crucial part of learning for children in primary school, a report into primary education has concluded.
(Photograph) - Staff and children at Lewes Nursery School, East Sussex, celebrated with fun and games when they were presented with Quality Matters accreditation from the Pre-school Learning...
Add up the animals, play around with old rhymes, reinforce concepts and learn a bit of Swahili in a collection of new books reviewed by Alison Boyle We All Went on Safari. written by Laurie Krebs and...
If you've got a vegetarian to cater for, not to worry -it can be simpler than cooking meat, says Fiona Hamilton-Fairley Nowadays, vegetarian food is extremely varied and exciting. Wherever you take...
Early years settings are busy fundraising for Red Nose Day on 4 March with the help of kits sent to nurseries across Britain to help them organise fundraising events. They feature the faces of the...
A day nursery catering for 96 children is to open next to the Milton Keynes General Hospital. The nursery, belonging to Rugby-based company Tender Loving Childcare (TLC), will cater for children from...
Morton Michel's popular annual design competition is asking children to invent an alien for the chance to win a great prize.
A speech and language programme that has helped more than 8,000 under-fives develop their communication skills will be celebrating its success next month as it draws to a close due to lack of funding.
Practitioners need to help each child to learn. They must recognise the child's current understanding and achievements and know what the child's next steps could be. This may involve the practitioner...
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour. Q In our nursery, we have a four-year-old whose behaviour can be provoking.