Spinners of tall tales from around the world will visit nurseries and schools during the Scottish International Storytelling Festival,from 29 October to 8 November. The traditional storytellers...
If you plan a topic on light and dark during late autumn, you can develop the theme by exploring the festivals of light that take place then. Bonfire night - November 5
At Inspirations Nurseries and Forest School, children have been observing the effect of light on their hands and bodies during their time in the setting’s art studio.
Practitioners with an NNEB predating the 1989 Children Act are increasingly worried that, with the development of the Accreditation of Prior Experience and Learning (APEL) last year, they have been...
'People do not like being told that they live in "pockets of deprivation". They think it's a comment on them.'
'The National Childcare Strategy in its present form has delivered all it can. Without a core of sustained public funding, universal childcare will never happen. It's time to place childcare within...
'Educational inequality is not a side effect of poverty; they are inextricably linked. Recent Ofsted-funded research has found that educational inequality is growing and we should not be surprised;...
'Serious concern was expressed at a recent ministerial meeting about the growing number of pupils starting school unable to talk clearly or pay attention to the teacher. Education researchers say that...
'We wish Mike Tomlinson well when he goes to Hackney - it is certainly an improvement on the Daily Telegraph' Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis during the debate in the House of...
Adults have 'an unjustified and disturbing intolerance of children', according to children's charity Barnados. Its survey of more than 2,000 adults in the UK found that 54 per cent think that children...