A website to help local authorities create child-friendly communities in areas such as planning, designing and policing has been launched by Play England and SkillsActive.
Small resources can help children to develop some big ideas in their imaginative play, as Jane Drake explains Long-term planning
Make-believe is integral to a child's development, and the more open-ended the resources, the greater the scope for imaginative play, says Helen Bromley.
With the aim to extend the free entitlement to 40 per cent of all two-year-olds by 2015, nurseries are having to think long and hard about how they can equip themselves to deliver this, as it will...
Use targeted resources that are meaningful to children to get them talking, says Judith Stevens.
The Principles into Practice cards explain in an illustrated and accessible format what early years practitioners should know and think about to deliver the EYFS programme effectively.
Mathematical development and music go hand in hand, with the latter enabling us to take pleasure in exploring the abstract subject, says Linda Pound
The entry deadline for the Nursery World Awards 2014 has been extended to 26 May!
by Jonathan Glazzard, Denise Chadwick, Anne Webster & Julie Percival (Sage, 19.99, ISBN 978-1849201223)
Norland College is closing its setting in Bath in August to re-focus its activity on the 'core business' of training students in professional childcare.