11 January 2001
The special report on reception classes and the
Foundation Stage ('Tear down the walls', 23 November) repeated yet again what
is rapidly becoming a dangerously misleading myth - that the...
11 January 2001
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11 January 2001
11 January 'Moral Notes - Family Life'
25 January 2001
Until very recently, nearly all our communication with
our readers happened via the post or the telephone. Now, e-mail is increasingly
the channel by which we receive feedback, queries and...
25 January 2001
Margaret Hodge sent out a clear message to
cash-strapped nursery schools last week that they would have to expand services
in order to earn their keep. Speaking at a London...
25 January 2001
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Jodie Mitchell is
intrigued by the sundial in the new garden area at Sighthill Primary School.
The Edinburgh school's central courtyard has been transformed into an outdoor...
25 January 2001
Nursery schools outperform primary schools even though
a significantly greater proportion of children in nursery school settings live
in difficult socio-economic circumstances, according to a Department for
Education and Employment...
25 January 2001
Delegates from South Africa visited Northern Ireland
this month for ideas on helping children deal with social conflict. They took
part in a seminar entitled 'Transforming schools, transforming societies',
organised...
25 January 2001
Childcare professionals are being asked by the National
Asthma Campaign and the National Eczema Society to spend a week of the Easter
holidays and the summer with 40 children on...
25 January 2001
'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is
not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't
learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel,...