Easter offers a range of opportunities for teaching about chocolate, from cacao trees to the concept of fair trade, explains Marianne Sargent
Arts and crafts play an integral part in the nursery curriculum because they can be used in infinitely variable ways. You can calm things down through modelling or quiet drawing or brighten up a dull...
This year's Childcare Stars Awards, run by 4Children with Nursery World and Prima magazines and sponsored by Sure Start, acknowledge some of the childcare sector's unsung heroes and their good...
A star nanny tells Helen Kewley how she overcame an occupational hazard - under the glare of TV cameras As Christmas approaches, it brings with it what seems like an inevitable growth in the...
Nursery chains with an eye on development might be wise to link up with schools, says Simon Vevers The plan to concentrate a wide range of services, including childcare, in clusters of extended...
New research may point the way to keeping young people off the streets and engaged in meaningful pastimes of their own choosing, with a role for children's centres. Annette Rawstrone investigates.
On the eve of Government moves to increase the number of children who find permanent adoptive families, psychologist Hessel Willemsen describes the trauma facing those forced to live in temporary care...
A Liverpool infant school is finding new ways to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, says Ann Langston.
With 250m allocated by the Government to transform the early years workforce in the non-maintained sector, Simon Vevers reports on how it could raise standards What is the Transformation Fund?
In its last few weeks in the womb a baby is already busy learning, says Annette Karmiloff-Smith, in the first of a new series on the developing brain.