Young children itching to get their hands on a home computer game lack the wide choice available to their older brothers and sisters. A new CD for PC and Mac, 'Noddy and the Magic Clock', is aimed at...
For a long time, the protests about the provision in the national care standards to allow childminders to smack the children in their care and smoke in front of them with parental permission seemed to...
The current climate is not proving too comfortable for the private nursery sector. A recent survey has shown occupancy in nurseries continuing to fall, with dangerously low levels in some parts of the...
Great news for the many early years practitioners who care for the rising number of babies and toddlers in daycare settings, with the launch of Birth to Three Matters: a framework to support children...
Nicola Wallis, museum educator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, discusses a programme devised especially to engage hard-to-reach families
Children’s favourite books can be used to encourage imaginative play outdoors, finds Julie Mountain
Satisfying energetic children, from mini-parkour to watering the plants. By Julie Mountain
Norfolk's Story Cafe programme is proving a hugely effective way of engaging parents in their children's learning. Programme developers Julie Westrop and Mandy Lowe and teacher Nicky Hudson offer some...
Get on track for developing skills and using materials in progressive stages by making trains, says Lena Engel Area of learning:
Ofsted has moved halfway to meeting parents' concerns that they cannot legally obtain information about the outcome of complaints made against daycare providers (see News, page 4). They will now be...