The best childcare settings closely observe children and identify their needs early on, suggests a new report from Ofsted.
If you want to back up your gardening projects (see page 18) with some classroom reading, you could take a look at The Global Garden by Kate Petty and Jennie Maizels, published by Transworld at Pounds...
Use these ten points as possible lead-ins for discussion at a staff meeting or with parents and carers. 1 Are children expected to create identical types of pictures for displays? Such an approach...
APEL Level 3 Certificate in work with children (Early Years or Playwork), Unit 2: reflect on practice Section 9 - Explain your understanding of anti-discriminatory practice and provide examples of the...
Further to the eight-page pull-out on the Reggio Approach (9 January), Nursery World readers may be interested to know that the spirit of Reggio is thriving in the south-west of England. Under the...
The owner of one of the nurseries exposed for bad practice in the BBC's 'Whistleblower' programme has spoken out about the allegations.
'The term special educational needs (SEN) has a legal definition. Children with special educational needs all have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn or access...
In the first article in a seven-part series on the Early Years Pupil Premium, Charlotte Goddard explores how settings are closing the attainment gap through investment in staff.
Beach School sessions allow for the same ‘awe and wonder’ for children and exploration experience as in Forest School– but with added drama. By Annette Rawstrone