6 December 2001
Choosing objects and materials and making them work for
desired ends come naturally to young children. Jane Drake explains how early
years practitioners can encourage learning and prompt discoveries We...
6 December 2001
Jennifer is just four years old and attends Cottingley
Primary School nursery five mornings a week. Mum reports that at home she loves
to build dens using any materials she...
6 December 2001
Use these key points for discussion at staff meetings
or with parents and carers: 1 How does your questioning focus and extend
children's thinking and learning? Have you discussed the...
6 December 2001
By Melanie Peter, lecturer in early childhood studies
at Suffolk College, and freelance consultant and author on arts education and
special needs First act
6 December 2001
There are important differences between educational
drama and children's spontaneous imaginative or role play, and differences in
the benefits it brings Educational drama is well established with children of
statutory...
6 December 2001
The practitioner needs to keep a clear idea of where
children's drama is heading in order to achieve a particular learning goal,
starting from the source idea that stimulates it...
6 December 2001
Stage 1 Introducing the topic *
Practitioner's/children's ideas?
6 December 2001
Join a nursery group making a drama in progress from a
simple storybook and using it to explore feelings and issues, with the
thoughtful involvement of nursery staff Developing drama...
6 December 2001
Use these guidelines to ensure that you are making the
most of your early years drama sessions If you are now feeling confident enough
to venture into providing drama, then...
6 December 2001
A review of all the scientific research to date on the
triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine shows that there is no case for
introducing the vaccines in single...