By Jane Drake, a partnership advisory teacher in Leeds and author of Planning Children's Play and Learning in the Foundation Stage and Organising Play in the Early Years (David Fulton) To form a clear...
What is superhero play? Why do children enjoy it? Should adults restrict it? And how can early years practitioners support this form of play? Nicole Weinstein provides some answers
An initiative in Liverpool looking at ICT has taken practitioners into new territory, says project developer Ann Langston of Early Years Matters.
Letter of the week wins 30 worth of children's books We are a group of nursery nurses, aged between 20 to 60, who have had enough of the misuse of the term 'nursery nurse'. We feel this misuse...
This letter is not about private prep schools in general, as we have great relationships with nearly all the schools that our children move to, both state and private. I am writing to share a dilemma...
Gender and how to define it is rarely out of the headlines at the moment. Recent research is also prompting a rethink of what ‘gender’ means, by demolishing gender stereotypes and questioning the...
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An unannounced and thorough inspection didn't faze the staff of this nursery, whose secrets of success are explained to Karen Faux.
Government support for parenting starts too late in a child's life, and for the wrong reasons, argues Sue Gerhardt New Labour congratulate themselves on their capacity to respond to the fact that...