Our new series on planning for the Foundation Stage, which starts this week, will highlight the importance of good observation and assessment, particularly for short-term planning (see 'Story lines', pages 12-13).
Increasingly, early years education is seeing a shift away from rigidly-imposed topics and themes, with an inflexible list of adult-led activities. Medium-term planning built around such topics was the primary focus, but there is now much more of an emphasis on long-term planning through the provision of the right environment and resources, and a short-term response to children's immediate needs. This monthly series by Jane Drake shows how to balance different planning requirements and give children maximum opportunities to develop their knowledge and experience.
It will look at a different area of the setting each time, building on Nursery World's good practice posters from throughout 2003.
the good practice posters which have been published with
