Children at Holmsdale Manor Nursery in Leicestershire have been investigating the flow of water using a water wall made from recycled materials.
Meera wants to broaden her skills and experience in playwork. Julia Richards offers advice on the qualifications and courses available in this field Meera has been running an after school club for...
Use these ten key points as possible starting points for discussion at meetings with staff or parents and carers. 1 Do you plan for children's personal, social and emotional development every week?
I am writing to add my voice to the many disillusioned childcare workers being faced with 'NDD' - Non Degree Discrimination. I have read with interest, but growing disappointment, the debate over...
A home-grown approach to peer mentoring at a nursery school and children's centre in London is improving practice, as well as making work more satisfying for the team. Headteacher Dr Julian Grenier...
An early years centre is giving its special needs children safe passage to school with a handy aid explained by Helen James and Dennise French We are an inclusive early years centre in London, funded...
Adults should not impose their own preconceptions of what is natural or innocent on children's play, argue Sue Grieshaber and Felicity McArdle.
Educational therapist Andrea Clifford-Poston answers your queries about child behaviour Q Can you help a rising-four-year-old who started our pre-school in September? She still brings her dummy, the...
Early years practitioners are invited to put their questions to the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY) as it hosts its first social media event next week.
Childminder Elaine Griffiths of Carmarthen in Wales has just started taking unit 3 of the Diploma in Home-based Childcare. 'I did the Introduction to Childminding Practice before I registered as a...