We know that preparing for and implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage is top of mind for everyone working with children from birth to five. The next year will be crucial for local authorities...
Chocolate, ice-cream and 800,000-year-old objects are all attractions at this year’s Cambridge Science Festival (7- 20 March), which nurseries and schools can visit for free.
Nursery World Scotland is joining forces with sister title Nursery World from 7 April, to provide an improved service for its readers. Scotland's record of leading the way in early years developments...
Covid-19 has highlighted the vital role of outdoor play in the early years, and the Nursery World Show 2021 Virtual has some fantastic seminars to support your practice.
With foreign language learning being introduced in primary schools for Key Stage 2, practitioners have an opportunity to help children prepare. Opal Dunn considers the best approach.
Visiting fire or police stations helps children understand about 'people who help us' but there is a wealth of resources settings can use for role play to support this theme
The current crop of training programmes covers a broad range of topics related to health. Hannah Crown rounds up some of the options.
Agency staff are a vital resource for many settings, but using them can pose difficulties. By Jo Caswell and Kate Peach, owners of Peachwell early years consultancy.
The Government’s decision to bring back a baseline assessment in Reception, just two years after it was forced to scrap the previous attempt, is a controversial one (see Analysis, page 14).
Pennie Akehurst sets out key points on the new Early years inspection handbook in the second part of a series on the Ofsted documents coming into force in September