21 November 2001
Early years practitioners have warned the Government that its plans to enhance the role of classroom assistants must not be a cheap way of alleviating teacher shortages and should be...
21 November 2001
More than 1,500 complaints from parents about childcare provision have been logged by Ofsted's Early Years Directorate in its first four months of operation....
5 September 2001
Find the best way to awareness of geography with advice from nursery teacher Jane Drake
14 February 2001
Physical activity for children is high on the official agenda, as Joyce Reid reports, while our cut-out-and-photocopy guide will help you explain the reasons why to parents
14 February 2001
From the earliest days a child will grow in confidence and self-esteem by mastering new abilities through play, as Dr Richard Woolfson explains
14 February 2001
The new senior level of NVQ award is being tackled with enthusiasm by its first students. Judith Napier met them
14 February 2001
The first private nursery chains are taking steps into the new Neighbourhood Nurseries scheme for disadvantaged areas. Anne Wiltsher reports
14 November 2001
When children are really concentrating they're unlikely to be sitting still and listening, writes Penny Tassoni...
14 November 2001
Mathematics is an area likely to be coloured by parents' own lack of confidence or their high ambitions for their child. Penny Tassoni explains how best to approach it...
14 November 2001
Ofsted's head of the early years quality division Dorian Bradley responds to common questions from private day nurseries about the new Ofsted inspection regime...