The children at your club are the people best qualified to chose new staff playworkers. But how should you involve them in recruitment? Philip Waters has first-hand experience. Sophie turned to the...
Amid the chance to ditch tick-lists, Di Chilvers considers how best to observe children’s development and progress
Recent innovative products for one of the most essential play provisions in early years are put to the test for Mary Evans.
See what an endless number of activities and experiences you can offer young children to develop their understanding of concepts of calculating with these ideas from Stella Louis. Photographs At...
Managing recruitment is always a delicate task, and never more so than in an unstable economic climate. Karen Faux considers how nursery groups are meeting the challenge.
Our Business Costs survey seeking to find out how settings are coping with cost challenges: from the National Living Wage this April through to the funded entitlement for 3/4 year olds (and the...
By Professor Colin Blakemore, director of the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, from a lecture given last month at the RSA in London All the evidence that's been published shows that formal...
A 175-a-week cap on the amount nurseries can charge for a full daycare place if they want to access financial support for recruitment and training through the Transformation Fund has raised fears that...
Making bookmarks during a 'night and day' topic provided an ideal opportunity for our children to develop their manipulative skills and to learn how to handle books with understanding. Planned...
No matter how many exciting activities you arrange, the children in your care are still bound to spend some of their time in front of the TV - so here are a few ideas for using television to create...