What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements.
Set the children on a journey through their imaginations with activity ideas from Helen Shelbourne The story On the Way Home by Jill Murphy is about a little girl with a hurt knee walking home to tell...
Nurseries have different systems and policies on changing babies' nappies - why? Annette Rawstrone spoke to nursery practitioners.
‘Early childhood education and care in Ireland is facing a black abyss,’ an early years expert has warned, as 90 per cent of staff look to leave the sector and childcare fees continue to be among the...
By Ann Orpwood, deputy manager of St Nicholas Pre-school in Radstock, Somerset I agree with Professor Tina Bruce that a birth-to-six strategy director would be a welcome addition to the...
Introduce ICT to young children in a rewarding fashion with these electronic toys chosen by Julie Wilson
Equipment that's user-friendly for little fingers is vital for the right start in this age of technology. Mary Evans recommends digital cameras and recorders with easy buttons.
Burnwood Nursery School has cut dramatically its number of children on the special needs register. Head teacher Juliet Levingstone explains how, in the second of a series on Stoke-on-Trent's nursery...
In this year's Nursery World student essay competition, we asked participants to write on the theme of 'caring for birth to threes'. Here we reprint in full the winning entry, with extracts from the...
Students on placement in early years settings are discouraged from bonding with babies by various factors, as Jackie Musgrave found.