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One of Sheffield's three remaining council-run nursery schools is to merge with a primary school and the future of the other two is unclear because of a lack of funding.
September sees the arrival of new children to many nurseries and George Dent Nursery School, Darlington, is no exception. Very young children are encouraged to feel at home by joining in with simple...
Young children need time every day to have direct and meaningful contact with the natural world. Gardening and growing - preparing, planting, nurturing, enjoying and eating, and simply exploring and...
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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