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EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Joyful learning
Enabling children to experience joy can help support learning and reduce stress and anxiety. Linda Pound offers some insight into the steps practitioners can take to embrace this approach Photographs at Lincolnshire Montessori, Guzelian; Clovercourt, Justin Thomas; and Mains Farm, North News.
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Training Today: What you need to know about change
Information, guidance and insight are provided in this annual training supplement free with the current issue of Nursery World
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Enabling Environments: Collections - Go wild!
Creative 'jungle' play can help improve children's understanding of the world, says Nicole Weinstein.
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Positive Relationships: Working with parents - Getting engaged
Boscombe Children's Centre has achieved a huge rise in its engagement with local families. Centre manager Justine Greenfield explains how.
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DfE keen to hear from nurseries on business costs
Private and voluntary nurseries are being urged to share their running costs with the Department for Education.
Nursery education funding 'must be protected' to curb free places crisis
The early years sector faces 'chronic underfunding', which threatens to put at risk the Government's plans to expand free nursery education places for two-year-olds.
Children start using words to form sentences earlier than thought
New research by Newcastle University challenges the idea that the early word combinations of two- and three-year-olds are devoid of grammar.
MP calls for later school start for summer-born children
An Early Day Motion, launched by Annette Brooke MP, recommends that England's school starting age should be more flexible.
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Seeds of Empathy launches in England
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Scottish MSPs call for timetable for statutory right to childcare
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Child development 'not harmed' by mother's return to work
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Record number of entries for Nursery World Awards 2013
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Fathers working less while mothers are increasing their hours
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Montessori awards its 150th accreditation
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Childcare providers raise concerns over future funding of two-year-old scheme
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Expose sparks reform of childcare in Ireland
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Ten years and going strong
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Wider Government reforms scrutinised after ratio U-turn
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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Born free
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Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... dinosaurs
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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Whatever the weather
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Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Vegetables
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Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Going strong
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Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... the sun, moon and stars
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Positive Relationships: A parent's guide to ... Ball skills
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Learning & Development: Physical Education - On balance
An Edinburgh partnership is presenting a movement framework for children that focuses on elements such as balance. Mike Jess and Jan McIntyre explain.
Enabling Environments: Transitions - In pictures
In looking to ease the transition to nursery, settings can also find ways to engage with the children currently in their care. Alison Anderson shares her experience devising a programme with this goal in mind.
A Unique Child: Inclusion - Who cares?
With the number of young carers on the rise, high levels of professional understanding and quality support are crucial. Annette Rawstrone reports.
Positive Relationships: Grandma and grandpa
Grandparents can face special challenges when supporting their grandchildren, but advice is now at hand
Learning & Development: Two-year-olds: part 6 - In the fast lane
The development of gross motor skills manifests itself in many forms, but how can we best support children's physical learning? Early years consultant Penny Tassoni offers some expert insight
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Tots talk programme - how a strategy for quality provision achieved results
An innovative project that has reached 120 local settings is boosting the language development of two-year-olds, says Liverpool City Council's Colette Bentley.
Business Rates - Are they going through the roof?
High business rates have long been a threat to nurseries' sustainability and some practitioners believe it is time the Government changed its mindset. Karen Faux reports.
Training Today: Continuing Professional Development - Love to learn
The very best continuing professional development should be nothing less than 'transformational'. Karen Faux reports on the approaches that make a difference.
Training Today: Early Years Teacher - All about identity
Early Years Teacher status is intended to boost the sector's professional image by building on the strengths of EYPS. Annette Rawstrone reports.
Latest From The Blog
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At least someone was listening
6 June 2013Has there ever been a U-turn on Government childcare policy as great as this? After six long months of campaigning, with thousands of signatures on paper and online petitions started by childminders, early...
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World of Beans
28 February 2013Beans here again! I’ll try not to rabbit on too much, but I was going to tell you about all the hopping mad things I got up to in February! (And a little bit about what’s been going on at Nursery World...
