Food fashions change, but offering healthy snacks is always vital, says Snapdragons' Mary Llewellin.
Explore ways to adapt and develop a traditional story with activity suggestions from early years advisor Judith Stevens.
The animals and buildings on a farm provide rich pickings for activities across the early years curriculum from Helen Shelbourne Aproject such as 'On the farm' may stem from a single child's...
Three children's charities have challenged the leading political parties in England to prove their commitment to children in the forthcoming General Election. The charities, the NSPCC, Barnardo's and...
Focus in detail on one workplace to explore people's jobs, as in this example of the post office in a two-part project by Judith Stevens Approach
Does the glut of popular advice on childcare have anything to teach nannies? Gayle Goshorn has a read. Back in the 1980s there was a hit TV series about unemployment called Boys from the Blackstuff,...
A coalition of youth organisations is campaigning to end the use of the Mosquito, a device emitting high-pitched, painful noise which can only be heard by people under 25.
Policies and procedures must be meaningful to everyone involved. That means thinking carefully about how to tailor them to children, staff and parents, says Laura Henry.
by Abigail Sterne, Donna Chadwick, Liz Poole, Catherine Lawler, Lynda W Dodd (Routledge, 17.99, ISBN: 978-0-415-46551-9)