A huge stock of articles with ideas for best practice and activities across the six areas of learning - Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Communication, Language and Literacy; Knowledge and Understanding of the World; Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy; Creative Development; and Physical Development. Includes our Let's Explore... series, plus great ideas for birth to threes for sensory play, messy play, music and rhymes.
EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Woodwork
Woodworking in early years settings fosters creativity and problem solving, says professional sculptor and public artist Pete Moorhouse.
Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - spring is here
Children enjoyed the first signs of spring on their latest trip to...
Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Expressive Arts and Design
Jan Dubiel explains the changes to Expressive Arts and Design in the...
Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Understanding the World
Ann Langston explains the changes to Understanding the World in the revised...
Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Mathematics
Judith Stevens explains the changes to Mathematics in the revised EYFS framework
Areas of Learning and Development: Prime area: Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Ann Langston explains the changes to Personal, Social and Emotional Development in...
Learning & Development: Sense of Time - Beneath the waves
A Liverpool infant school is finding new ways to commemorate the 100th...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Get the bug!
There's no end to the learning as well as the fun that...
Learning & Development: Music - With a bang!
Infant school children are communicating, negotiating, planning and performing in sophisticated ways...
Learning & Development: Museums - Past performance
The EYFS served as a guide for developing museum visits for under-fives...
Enabling Environments: Collections - Come rain or shine
Rain, sun and fog are elements children can have fun exploring with...
Learning & development: The knight and his lady
The interests of children at one nursery came to life when a...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play
Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise...
Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty
The defining elements of active learning, the second characteristic of effective learning...
Learning and Development: Creativity - Shelter from the storm
An art project by a London children's centre aims to send reassurance...
Learning & Development: Creative Play - Making a museum
Working in partnership with museum staff to create a Communication Museum has...
Learning & Development:: Back to basics
Ideas on how to use bicarbonate of soda and other basic cleaning...
Enabling Environments: Collections - It's a breeze
Nothing beats being outdoors to experience weather but many resources can support...
Enabling Environments: Physical Development - It's all go
Children's favourite activities are encouraged by Christina Saville, Maryanne Neil, Linsey Fulton...
Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 1 - In the process
In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning...
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