With the EYFS adding to pressures for better trained staff, financial stresses are pushing early years settings from the other direction. Mary Evans hears why.
AREAS OF LEARNING Nursery Topics - Communications covers all six areas of learning in the English early years curriculum, but it can be easily adapted to suit the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish...
A mixed bag of books that lend themselves to being shared with a group of young children is reviewed by Alison Boyle Halibut Jackson by David Lucas (Andersen, 10.99, ISBN: 1-84270-218-1)
Look at how discrimination begins among children, parents and early years practitioners and at the way settings accommodate children to see what could be changed. Legislation and the new national...
Cultural and religious festivals are great for celebrating diversity, and there are few more enjoyable things to focus on than food. Snapdragons’ Mary Llewellin shares ideas for creative creations
Gabriella Jozwiak meets a woman for whom the phrase ‘water baby’ is a vocation, having swapped sales to set up a swimming school in London
We are all going through a period of transition - a new Government, changes to the funding mechanisms for early years, a spending review.
Children at BAE nursery, a workplace nursery at Rakes Lane, Warton, Lancashire,look forward to regular visits from a mobile zoo of animals We wanted to give our children some experience of animals in...
This Children's Grief Awareness Week (18-24 November), the public are being urged to listen to bereaved children and understand how important it is that they receive support when they are grieving.