Louise Parr is CEO and executive head teacher of Astrum Multi Academy Trust. Here she talks about the Trust's plans to build a 64-place special free school for children aged two to seven.
A national food advice service has been launched in response to a survey that found around 85 per cent of early years settings have to cater for children with special dietary needs, including many...
Small groups and few changes in routine are the watchwords for happy two-year-olds Many of the behaviours that give two-year-olds a bad reputation, such as being unco-operative, clinging or throwing...
A charity in Cornwall is creating a bespoke nursery for disadvantaged babies and two-year-olds.
As part of a series unpicking the recruitment crisis and giving strategies to combat it, Charlotte Goddard explores ways that settings can sell themselves, and asks why candidates pick one job over...
Playwork training and qualifications are underpinned by essential values and assumptions. The first assumption is that: 'Children's play is freely chosen, personally directed behaviour, motivated from...
Inequality and disadvantage continue to blight the lives of millions of children born in the UK, more than 40 years on from the publication of a landmark report into the experiences of children from...
Following on from walls, floors and tables, Dr Lala Manners suggests chairs are a good transition resource to enable children to be more active between activities
Full daycare has been given the thumbs-up by the children themselves in a study carried out by a team from Stirling University for the Scottish Executive. The researchers found that most three-and...
Nursery nurses in Scotland have dismissed accusations by the local authorities' representative body that Unison has spread misinformation about the nature of their industrial dispute.