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In part three of her series on the 7Cs approach to planning outdoor spaces for young children, Julie Mountain explains the importance of incorporating 'clarity' and 'challenge'.
In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal...
The importance of making spaces in which children and their carers can have freedom to think, talk and create was stressed at a major early years conference at Nottingham University earlier this...
Play involving hands and feet can help develop observation and thinking skills beyond simple recognition of size, shape and pattern. Marianne Sargent suggests some ideas.
In the first of a four-part series on planning your outdoor area,Julie Mountain introduces the '7Cs' approach for enabling high-quality play.
The Forest Schools experience has brought many benefits to children at a setting in Scotland. AnnMarie Cunningham describes the process.
What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements.
Children's charity NCH is to change its name to Action for Children from September. The charity says it is aiming to raise its public profile, increase its voluntary income and focus more on...
Children gain an immense sense of achievement from creating something beautiful from a few simple sticks, says Julie Mountain.
With all their good intentions, children's centres may still let down their users through design faults that can be altered reasonably easily. Manager Colette Tait shows how.