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The feature on nursery schools ('In need of repair', 1 March) was very welcome. While the Department for Education and Employment may now recognise the value of nursery schools, we need to have local...
The early years landscape is changing fast, with the past few years seeing the introduction of free nursery education for three-and four-year-olds, the Foundation Stage, Sure Start, and the Early...
In the fourth article of his series on types of play, Philip Waters explores the meaning of symbolic representation About a year ago I was invited to a Christmas family gathering where two young...
The new school term is now properly under way, and there's lots to help you make the most of it in this week's Nursery World. Our project outline (pages 18-19) is based on the Janet and Allen Ahlberg...
I don't know about you, but this is the time of year when I find everything seems to open up and new avenues suddenly appear more possible. Our feature on nannying in Italy (p14) describes just the...
As the Kate Greenaway Nursery School has expanded, we have aimed for every new initiative to be supported by evidence of best practice from elsewhere and shaped by the views of local families....
Praise is generally considered to be a positive thing, but it can actually have a negative effect on how a child perceives their ability to achieve. Caroline Vollans explains.
The new national standards for the regulation and inspection of childcare are meant to make a level playing field of a locally bumpy area. We asked childcare provider organisations how they see it....
Ofsted is to publish both the Early Years Register and the Childcare Register on its website, along with providers' names, addresses and type of childcare offered, following a consultation with...
Nannies need to be more aware of their maternity rights, says Asa Nilsdotter The phone rings in my office; there is a nanny at the other end of the phone nervously asking, 'I have just discovered I'm...