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Use these key points for discussion at staff meetings or with parents and carers: 1 How does your questioning focus and extend children's thinking and learning? Have you discussed the key vocabulary...
Use these ten key points as possible lead-ins for discussion at a staff meeting or with parents and carers: 1 What experience of print do children have outside of the home/setting? 2 Are there plenty...
Q Our playground is temporary while a new site is built and we have nowhere for children to park their bikes when they arrive. Suggestions, please? A Wesco's new weightable Bike Stand is made of thick...
Encouraged by Government, more employers want to help their staff with childcare, but what does this mean for providers? Simon Vevers investigates Childcare is increasingly becoming part of the...
The Au Pair and Nanny's Guide to Working Abroad has proven such an indispensable handbook that it's just come out in its fifth edition. It's been updated to take account of internet job-hunting and...
Children need an enthusiastic mediator if they are to develop a love for books. Opal Dunn explains how to help under-threes build a solid foundation for literacy
Question time Each morning we set up a question on our question table and display board for the children to answer, with their parent or carer, by placing their name card in a 'yes' or 'no' container.
A classic cookery book is out in a new updated edition with 20 additional dishes - and Professional Nanny readers can win a fresh copy. Annabel Karmel's New Complete Baby and Toddler Meal Planner has...
Make sure you are following the correct recruitment and vetting procedures for new staff with another checklist in our essential series by Laura Henry.
Policy tensions and political motives create barriers to improving childcare, says Chris Barnham.