We’ve explored… music outdoors
The children at one setting in Scotland have access to an outdoor area with loose-parts musical...
Expressive Arts and Design
All about… clay
What are the particular benefits of providing clay as a resource, and how are some settings...
Essential Resources: Equip for Expressive Arts and Design
Environments resourced with a wide variety of materials, both found and bought, will encourage...
An A to Z of enhancements M is for Mud
Give children new opportunities to develop descriptive language and find new purposes for the...
Essential Resources: Equip to support fine and gross motor skills
Children need to fine-tune the small muscles in their hands, fingers and wrists to build up the...
An A to Z of enhancements: L is for large-scale art
Encouraging large-scale painting and drawing can open opportunities for children to work...
Expressive Arts and Design: Get set to sew!
Sewing promotes sustainable and anti-stereotypical practice and many areas of development, as well...
EYFS Activities: Let's go to… Towner Eastbourne
At Towner, children engaged with the collection and the local countryside through a session on...
EYFS Best Practice: Observation – supporting wider learning
In the final part of her series on observation to support wellbeing, Dr Sue Allingham focuses on...
Outdoors: The plants in my street – dandelion
Dandelions are versatile ‘weeds’ – they are edible, make great loose parts and provide a host of...
We've explored… boxes
Staff at one Yorkshire setting replaced many resources with boxes, a project which culminated in...
EYFS Activities: Let's go to… the Fitzwilliam Museum
Nicola Wallis, museum educator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, discusses a programme devised...
Your outdoor calendar: December 2022
It's magical midwinter – wrap children up warmly and make the most of this special time of year....
EYFS Best Practice - All about… ateliers
One setting’s atelier provides a case study in how to set up such a space and resource it to...
'Don't throw away all your resources and hope your class will be inspired by fir cones and sticks'
It is not okay to say that we are going with a Reggio Emilia approach and therefore we are only...
Expressive Arts and Design - Brush strokes
The Expressive Arts and Design area of learning and development has links to many other parts of the...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… Minnie Pwerle’s work
How the work of Aboriginal artist Minnie Pwerle sparked the children’s interest in shape, colour and...
Expressive Arts and Design: 3D Structures: Shaping up
What are the developmental benefits of using 3D objects in play and making activities, and how can...
Music in The Early Years - Strike a chord
How does music link to learning and development, and what are the best ways to introduce musical...
Young V&A will ‘celebrate play’
The V&A Museum of Childhood has been renamed the Young V&A, as work begins on its £13m...
Find expert guidance on the revised EYFS
Nursery World's invaluable Practice Guide on the Revised EYFS collects together our recent series of...
Revised EYFS – In focus… Expressive arts and design
How should practitioners approach the revised learning area of EAD within the new EYFS, and how does...
EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: R is for…relationships and resilience
Strong and healthy relationships are prioritised and the development of resilience is well-supported...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… a rainbow shed
Allowing children to paint their school shed sparked their imaginations and showed them just what...
Essential Resources: Music - Pitch perfect
Offering musical instruments for children to explore and handle freely along with targeted,...
EYFS Best Practice in schools - In the picture
Following an increased engagement in visual art during the pandemic, how can early years settings...
Dance - Give it a whirl
Performance dance such as ballet should be experienced by all children as a vital part of their...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… making paper
One setting has been recycling its waste paper in-house – giving children the opportunity to...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… shadows
Making shadow puppets has been an engaging experience, explains Victoria Lungu, atelierista at Manor...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… mud
An art gallery project inspired one setting to get creative with mud and explore the material’s...
Woodwork - Touch wood
What we in the UK can learn from how other countries around the world – the USA, Japan, New Zealand...
Music – Take note
How one setting’s immersive approach to music made Early Years Teacher Jessica Holme appreciate its...
Communication & Language - Going with the flow
This project got even reluctant children and practitioners involved in musical sessions that were...
Nursery Equipment: Expressive Art and Design - The art of expression
Well-thought-out art activities in which practitioners also take part can significantly improve...
Around the Nursery, Part 6 - A rich palette?
Painting, collage and junk modelling have many benefits for children beyond self-expression and...
Partnerships in early years music: Working together
Two large-scale partnership projects in London and Birmingham have recently shown what an ambitious...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… colour
What happened when children linked colours with emotions. By Annette Rawstrone
Around the Nursery, Part 4 - Pressing needs
Dough and other malleable materials have a role to play across the early years curriculum, explains...
Woodwork - We’ve nailed it!
Children at one school in London are encouraged to become confident users of real tools in a...
EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… sculpture
How children at one setting went about creating a sculpture garden. Annette Rawstrone reports.
Around the Nursery, Part 3 - In on the act
Advice for settings on how to plan and resource role play for all age groups. By Penny Tassoni
All about… makerspaces
How do makerspaces aid the provision of STEM learning in the early years? By Professor Jackie Marsh,...
Feeling fascinating
How three settings in London used their pupil premium funding to support children’s sense of self...
Nursery Equipment: Scrap Stores - Waste not…
Scrap stores are helping settings kill two birds with one stone by providing art and play resources...
EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… art
One setting took children’s artwork to another level by exhibiting it at a major gallery, discovers...
EYFS best practice in schools: Role play - Home and away
Even the youngest children role play, but the activity takes on whole new meanings and imaginative...
The Big Picture - Beach Art
Children at St Thomas’ Nursery and Beach School have created a replica lifeboat out of rubbish found...
EYFS Activities: We've Explored...Transient Art
How one setting provides the opportunity for children to make transient art, and what they get out...
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