A topic about light and dark offers opportunities for children to explore the broad themes of day and night, natural and artificial light and the importance of light in plant growth, but organising...
Stuffed mixed peppers This is a great recipe for using leftover rice.
Early years consultant Margaret Edgington has started a petition seeking to protect the Foundation Stage for three- to five-year-olds, which has a firm emphasis on learning through play, from the more...
Will the structure of the Early Years Foundation Stage, asks Ruth Thomson, encourage the very practice that it is seeking to eliminate? If one message is made clear in the opening sections to the...
Children at the Happy Times Nursery in Battersea, South London, can take a journey through space with the help of their new Altro Walkway safety flooring. Stars and planets have been cut into the...
Should nannies be able to find out what a former employer has said about them? Or should it stay confidential for children's sake? That's the question that recruitment agency Tinies is disputing with...
Early years experts warned last week that there were dangers in promoting synthetic phonics, as the Government unveiled a review into the way reading is taught in England's primary schools.
Take a fresh approach to the song 'Old MacDonald had a farm' in the first of our new monthly series on nursery rhymes. Carolyn Price looks here, there and everywhere Bow wow
A hospital role play corner sent children off on more learning routes than staff ever anticipated, says Maureen Baker of Children's House Nursery School, Edinburgh We've all been amazed at the breadth...
Could one profession embrace everyone who works with children? <B>Annette Rawstrone</B> investigates