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Small-world play offers children the chance to explore real and imagined worlds in miniature. Early years settings put a range of small-world play equipment to the test and report back to Nicole...
With a view to introducing den play at her school, Louise Nicholls carried out a research project looking at the impact this type of play can have on young children. She shares her findings.
Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent,...
Sunbeams Day Nursery has embedded loose-parts play into provision across all its settings, transforming practice and inspiring children. Nicole Weinstein reports
Here are some ideas to show how a nursery can build up a wealth of resources to help children to learn, appreciate and have fun with the largest land animal, from Jean Evans.
A nursery in Wiltshire used a local garden in an old churchyard, and a visual artist, to put together a Making Memories project. Annette Rawstrone explains
The Forest Schools experience has brought many benefits to children at a setting in Scotland. AnnMarie Cunningham describes the process.
In the first of a new series on running a Forest School programme, Sarah Blackwell identifies priorities in locating and using the land.
Using these historic creatures to inspire games and activities can help to build curiousity and imagination, advises Marianne Sargent.
Play involving hands and feet can help develop observation and thinking skills beyond simple recognition of size, shape and pattern. Marianne Sargent suggests some ideas.