To create a communication rich environment for their charges, Norland Nursery staff studied their own communication patterns. By Clare Crowther
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The principles of the Steiner Waldorf kindergarten put play at the heart of early learning and provide a stress-free setting, says Lynne Oldfield.
How children learn from the world around them is influenced by both their external senses, such as taste and touch, and their internal senses of movement and body awareness. Anne O'Connor considers...
Peer to peer support helps early years staff to improve their leadership skills and offer better services, research into a government-funded programme has found.
In the second column of this series, the CWDC's Jane Haywood explains how the ability to promote children's rights and create inclusive practice underpins the EYP's role. Standard 18 'Promote...
Understanding children’s schemas, or ‘patterns of behaviour and thinking’, enables practitioners to support them as they use them to deepen their learning, explain Professor Tina Bruce CBE, Dr Stella...
By Mary Dickins, early years consultant (All Together Training and Consultancy).
The inclusion of physical development as a Prime area of the revised EYFS will have a powerful impact on a child's emotional well-being and later learning, says Anne O'Connor.
Children born in the summer are at a potential disadvantage when they start school, research shows. Charlotte Goddard looks at what you need to know