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24 April 2002
Children use play to explore emotions, but these may be too strong for them to deal with at times. Psychologists from the Anna Freud Centre show how adults can help...
24 April 2002
The successful integration of a child with Down's syndrome led to a centre reviewing its policies and practice. Moira Keating and Elizabeth Knight explain how it was done...
24 April 2002
As an outreach worker for a Sure Start programme Julie Slingsby provides vital support for families with babies and toddlers. Here she describes a typical working week...
24 April 2002
An amusing story about a cat who likes to hide in boxes lends itself to activities that can develop memory skills, as Lena Engel demonstrates...
18 April 2002
Make use of some simple graphics facilities on your
computer to help children grasp mathematical concepts while producing stunning
art, says Veronica Carter We had not really planned to get...
18 April 2002
Do you know those flowers that dance in response to
music? Gadget shops are full of them. Furby, Poo-chi and other costly cyber
toys are also programmed to respond to...
18 April 2002
By Lisa Steele-Bevan, a nursery nurse working part-time
in a playgroup in Bampton, Oxfordshire I am working for a playgroup where I am
paid more per hour than I was...
18 April 2002
In an answer to a query in the Sunday Times on 7 April,
Chris Woodhead, the former chief inspector of schools at Ofsted, said, 'There
is an unfortunate tendency to...
18 April 2002
I thought I had heard the last of Chris Woodhead until
I read 'In my view' (28 March). I won't repeat some of my comments while
reading and watching videos...
18 April 2002
Not long ago, in 1998, when early years practitioners
were questioning the sense of earlier entry into schools, Chris Woodhead
vehemently opposed any suggestion that this was not in the...