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Ordinary early years practitioners and specialist researchers had a lot to learn from each other when they met, says Crispin Andrews.
When children are really concentrating they're unlikely to be sitting still and listening, writes Penny Tassoni Being able to deliberately focus our attention on one activity is an important skill. It...
Music licensing bodies PPL and PRS for Music have confirmed that private and voluntary nurseries are not considered ‘educational establishments’ in the way that maintained nursery schools and schools...
More than a year since a television programme revealed below-standards of care and mistreatment at some of Ireland's creches, little improvement appears to have been made to the...
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.
Study cats by listening to stories, creating art, and meeting the real thing, with more activities from Andrea Durrant Activity 1
Collections of natural objects offer children rich sensory experiences and are a great way to nourish their brains, says Anne O'Connor.
Practitioners need to be sensitive to the tendencies that children exhibit in their learning and encourage those that will lead to independence, says <STRONG> Anne O'Connor </STRONG>
We should all be doing it more often and more carefully - especially in nurseries, where better handwashing could drastically reduce infections, says Ruth Thomson.
In the second part of this series, Anne Oldfield and Sarah Emerson set out the circumstances in which learning happens best