On behalf of our readers, staff in nurseries and schools around the country have put a wide range of products through their paces to assess their value in the workplace, and have given each item a...
Improve your practice. Use our directory to help you access the many short courses and workshops designed to keep early years professionals up to the minute with good practice across all aspects of...
In this the eleventh National Strategies feature on the Early Years Foundation Stage, Kim Porter, senior adviser at Every Child a Talker, and early years regional advisers Jonathan Doherty and Kairen...
The essential provision for a creative art environment takes account of the space and materials made available and the display of children's finished works.
Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent,...
How experimenting with music aids children’s personal, social and emotional development and promotes self-regulation. Linda Pound explains, and offers practical advice for practitioners
On behalf of our readers, staff in nurseries and schools around the country have put a wide range of products through their paces to assess their value in the workplace, and given each item a star...
Ann Langston, who contributed to the development of Birth to Three Matters, explains its format, history and importance and tells us why it should be dusted down and put back on the shelf as...
Getting children to experience ‘magical moments’ is a vital learning tool that has far-reaching and very significant impacts, explains early years consultant Kathryn Solly
We are all beautifully different – so it is important for children to see themselves and others portrayed positively on the pages of picturebooks. By Andy McCormack