By Heather Gillies, manager of Glasgow's Clutha Street Day Nursery, which has an award-winning garden A sensory garden offers children of all ages lots of opportunities to explore their environment...
I am a playgroup supervisor. About six months ago I attended a course on communication, language and literacy in the Foundation Stage. A nursery nurse on the course told us that one morning a...
Observation will show you how babies and toddlers begin to gain problem-solving skills, and give you ideas for how to stimulate them further, says <B> Jennie Lindon </B>
In the first of a two-part series on planning for the outdoors, Jane Drake looks at how inside provision can be replicated outside Awell-planned outdoor area can, and should, enable children to make...
Children at LEYF’s Marks Gate Nursery in Dagenham, east London, enjoyed exploring fish they chose and bought that morning from the local market.
Staff and children at Tops Wareham have celebrated the nursery’s 20th birthday.
Staff from Bright Horizons Crofton Day Nursery and Pre-school in Orpington were delighted to reopen the setting again after it closed due to extensive damage caused by Storm Eunice in the winter.
When the first issue of our Nursery Chains supplement was published in November 1998, its directory contained around 70 groups. Now, just two-and-a-half years later, there are 160 chains listed in the...
Rabbi Miri Lawrence, who is director of the Early Childhood Centre at the West London Synagogue, decided to undertake an APEL award to consolidate her 20 years of experience in childcare. 'The APEL...
In the first of a new series on good leadership and management under the Education Inspection Framework, Annette Rawstrone finds staff must understand the ‘why’