Advice, information and ideas on supporting boys to become confident and competent learners
EYFS best practice: All about ... Superhero play
What is superhero play? Why do children enjoy it? Should adults restrict it? And how can early years practitioners support this form of play? Nicole Weinstein provides some answers
Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Wild things?
When boys are playing boisterously and causing disruption, it may be time...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Come out to play
Boys were encouraged to discover new ways to play, learn and practise...
Learning & Development: Superhero Play - Super girls and boys
What's the difference between a superhero and a fairy godmother? It depends...
Learning & Development: Writing - Follow their lead
Early years practitioners were amazed at the success of boys' writing projects...
A Unique Child: Cognitive Development - Boys and girls
Gender differences in behaviour are widely accepted and extensively researched, but only...
A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it
Young boys seem to have a natural urge to wrestle with each...
Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Ask the expert ... Taking control
A child's anxieties about physical danger and risk are addressed by Dr...
Learning & Development: Small-world play - It's fantastic!
Play with small, fantasy figurines is an ideal way to address language...
Learning & Development: Writing - Marking time
Young children are helped to become confident writers in a project described...
Positive Relationships: Conflict Resolution - What's the problem, guys?
One nursery tried a positive approach to giving children the power and...
A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Block Play
Block play allows a child to mix creativity with mathematical problem-solving, says...
Learning & Development: Superhero Books - Zap! Pow!
Children's interest in superheroes can be met by something other than violent,...
Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In their element
Girls consistently achieve better than the boys, but research suggests that the...
Positive Relationships: Boys - Why gender matters
Practitioners need to rethink how they regard boys and girls, whether as...
Positive relationships: Let's talk about ... Boys
Should boys and girls be treated differently in the early years? Annette...
Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Block play
Share the benefits of block play with parents, as this nursery showed...
Learning and Development gender: Boy zone
Early years practitioners must view boys as they are, and not try...
Learning & Development: Aggressive Play - For real?
Should childcarers allow aggressive play, and where does the line have to...
Positive Relationships: Working with parents - Winning ways
In this year's Children's Stars awards by 4Children, the Parents as Partners...
Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... Boys and girls
Practitioners need to be careful to treat children as individuals when establishing...
Superhero play: Caped crusaders
Practitioners and parents need to appreciate why boys often prefer 'superhero' play....
Pow! Training to support superhero play
Acorn Training has launched a new course to help practitioners support children's...
Let boys play with guns, says DCSF
Boys should be encouraged to take part in role-play involving superheroes and...
Boys have twice the behavioural problems, says MCS
Boys are twice as likely to display serious behavioural problems as girls,...
Girls surpass boys in EYFS Profile scores
Girls continue to do better than boys in the early learning goals...
Girls 'believe they're better' than boys from early age
Girls believe they are cleverer and better behaved than boys from the...
Movie superheroes 'make bad role models for boys'
Today's superheroes are too violent to be good role models for boys,...
Children learn gender bias at nursery
Nurseries that highlight people's gender tend to promote stereotypical views in children,...
To the point: Speaking on parade
All year, the National Communication Champion, Jean Gross, has been making a...
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