Mary Evans outlines how nursery managers now have a bigger responsibility to ensure that all employees are suitable to work with young children and can fulfil the new requirements.
Ensuring enjoyment, challenge and meaning in children’s mark-making. By Penny Tassoni
Empowering early years workers to identify and target areas of difficulty in pre-school children Staff at six nurseries in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage in the UK were trained to...
The rattle is a favourite gift for a newborn baby, but did you know that these simple toys go back as far as the second century BC? Long ago they were made from dried gourds or hollowed-out bones and...
An 'Under the sea' topic inspired this colourful display to develop an awareness of pattern and to encourage children to write for a purpose Planned learning intentions
We have one wooden bucket balance (Hope, 39.95) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'bucket balance', to the address on page...
The recent exchange trip made by Scottish early years practitioners to the headquarters of Westminster Children's Society (News, 22 May) was funded by Glasgow City Council, we have been asked to point...
'The number of children starting school with poor speaking and listening skills should cause us all to worry, and the numbers are going up.' Alan Wells, director of the Basic Skills Agency, on the...
We have two tyrannosaurus rex puppets (Asco, Pounds 68.50 each) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'T-rex puppet', to the...