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New citizens from the cultures of Eastern Europe People whose origins lie outside Europe are not the only ones whose culture differs significantly from that of white Britain. If one...

Children and adults alike know and love nursery rhymes, but what's the best way to use them for learning opportunities across the curriculum? Judith Stevens offers ideas Children love rhyme...

We have ten copies of 'Keeping the Beat - Nursery Rhymes for Today's Children' (Keeping the Beat, £10) to give away to Nursery World readers. The CD features traditional rhymes...

Playing with sand allows children to work through anger or fear without having to talk about it, says Jackie Cosh, describing a novel therapy gaining ground in the UK A...

A new report outlines Government goals for the ten-year childcare strategy and plans for its implementation The vision

In our series on building a book collection around a particular theme, Judith Stevens turns to the family - and the young reader at its centre When using themes as...

By Pauline Trudell, support headteacher to The Forum for Maintained Nursery Schools and Children's Centres If education is driven out of the children's centre programme, then the Government's intention to...

Letter of the week wins £30 worth of children's books How right Linda Pound is when she states that the time has come to say 'enuf is enuf' and stop...

It's a crazy world! * After more than 80 years in the wilderness, 'personalised learning' has become fashionable - not for our three- to five- year-olds, as those nursery pioneers...

As a Montessori directress I introduce the alphabet phonetically and then start forming consonant-vowel-consonant words, for example 'hat'. We then proceed on to more complex phonetic words, for example 'frog'...