Alison Featherbe: 'Lessons from past safeguarding cases have driven the need for clarity'
Early years expert Alison Featherbe delves deeper into the DfE's plans to change the safeguarding...
Early years expert Alison Featherbe delves deeper into the DfE's plans to change the safeguarding...
Children’s ongoing interest in transport was enhanced by a role-play train station and various...
Ball skills can help with hand-eye co-ordination and can be introduced in developmentally...
The children at one setting in Scotland have access to an outdoor area with loose-parts musical...
Nicole Weinstein visits a nursery in the London borough of Hackney to look at the resources and...
How should children build strength and stamina in a developmentally appropriate way, asks Dr Lala...
Spaces where children can share activities with each other will inspire role play, storytelling and...
Education experts at Oxford University Press have designed a new app for pre-school children to use...
Researchers from the Institute of Education at Nottingham University are asking for early years...
Building a ramp to race cars down led to a wider exploration of ramps for various rolling objects,...
One nursery group is exploring famous artists through dedicated studios, discovers Annette Rawstrone
What are the particular benefits of providing clay as a resource, and how are some settings...
In the second part of a new series on integrating physical practice into early years practice, Dr...
What are fundamental movement skills? By Caroline Vollans
Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University...
In the last of her series, Alison Clark suggests exploring in continuous provision how materials can...
Nicole Weinstein visits a London day nursery on the site of a working farm and looks at the...
The children at one setting in West Sussex have been exploring diversity and the importance of...
How loose parts can inspire children to explore quantity in their imaginative play and other...
There are several ways that settings can make reading and telling stories a slower, more beneficial...
In this final part of his series on learning behaviours, Jan Dubiel explores how early years...
The proportion of five-year-olds with a good level of development and who reach the expected level...
Nicola Demetriadi reflects on the role popular culture can play in meeting a child’s cultural...
Nicole Weinstein examines the benefits of getting out into nature and the local community and how to...
With Christmas meaning different things to different people, Annette Rawstrone finds out how early...
What is it that makes enclosed spaces so appealing to many children, and how can early years...
Adopting an unhurried approach to sharing food can help practitioners make the most of this social...
Find out how the IB Primary Years Programme Early Years (PYP) can enrich your curriculum and enhance...
In the first of a three-part series, Jan Dubiel sets out 12 key ‘Learning Behaviours’ that should...
Environments resourced with a wide variety of materials, both found and bought, will encourage...
Whiteboards at one setting in northwest London have become a collaborative focal point for planning...
Bright red poppies in the planting area at Little Angels Day Care Nursery in Brighton, East Sussex...
Conifers make up 40 per cent of Earth’s plant cover and provide often-fragrant cones. By Julie...
What is ‘slow pedagogy’ and what does it look like for children and practitioners when taken...
Most teachers believe Reception Baseline tests in English and Maths for four- and five-year-olds are...
The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum in Northern Ireland offers early years children plenty of...
Practitioners with the right knowledge and resources can make maths meaningful for children and...
Oak can support more than 2,000 species, is great for climbing – and has acorns. By Julie Mountain
Give children new opportunities to develop descriptive language and find new purposes for the...
All children, including those with SEND, enjoyed ponies visiting their setting. By Annette Rawstrone
In the second and final part of her series, Claire Martin, Reception teacher at the British...
In the final part of her series on former Nursery World Award winners, Julie Mountain explores what...
How can settings resource their areas to support children’s early literacy skills, asks Nicole...
An interactive replica of the River Mersey is a way to explore Liverpool’s iconic waterfront with...
Tapestry’s Ben Case explains how attending the recent Nursery World curriculum conference helped him...
How do settings with the best outdoor spaces embed high-quality teaching and learning? Julie...
August is the traditional blackberry month – so get a-foraging, says Julie Mountain
Encouraging large-scale painting and drawing can open opportunities for children to work...
Sewing promotes sustainable and anti-stereotypical practice and many areas of development, as well...
Changes to the EYFS, including staff-to-child ratios in nurseries and clarifying how many children...