The handover to Ofsted's Early Years Directorate, which is taking over the registration and inspection of childcare for the under-eights from 3 September, has worried some practitioners. But they have...
Your curate's egg of a report on the National Association of Education Inspectors' conference (News, 12 July) was encouraging in its highlighting of the importance of play in the early years, but...
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Cottage Day Nursery in Lewisham staged a day of face-painting, bouncy castle, activities and games.
<P> Understanding the ways children's memories differ from adults' will help practiitioners choose appropriate activities, says <B> Penny Tassoni </B> </P>
Even if you do not have children from varied religious or ethnic backgrounds in your setting, you can and should reflect the world's diversity, with ideas from Denise Bailey Delivering a curriculum...
The Under 12s Exhibition features lively, informative and relevant seminars for workers in all sectors of childcare and education. Lindy Sharpe talks to four of them. Therese Hoyle
Circle time can be used across all six areas of learning, as seen in these examples from Here We Go Round - Quality Circle Time This is the way we brush our hair
What's on the early years agenda for the Government's second term? Mary Evans rounds up the plans and the policies New Labour may have won a mandate to continue its programme of welfare and...
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