You might not have started your Christmas shopping yet, despite reminders everywhere about the days running out, but you will no doubt be thinking about activities that your setting can carry out for the festive season! We've got lots of ideas in this week's magazine, including a Foundation Stage project based on a lovely Christmas book that provides a sound introduction to the Nativity story for young children (pages 18-20). Moving up the age range, out-of-school club children should enjoy Deborah Sharpe's complete script for a pantomime performance of a very amusing version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Out of School, pages 12-14, free with this week's issue).
You might not have started your Christmas shopping yet, despite reminders everywhere about the days running out, but you will no doubt be thinking about activities that your setting can carry out for the festive season! We've got lots of ideas in this week's magazine, including a Foundation Stage project based on a lovely Christmas book that provides a sound introduction to the Nativity story for young children (pages 18-20).
Moving up the age range, out-of-school club children should enjoy Deborah Sharpe's complete script for a pantomime performance of a very amusing version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Out of School, pages 12-14, free with this week's issue).
Many practitioners will feel less confident when it comes to festivals from other religions and in taking a multicultural approach in general. Peter Baldock of the Cultural Mentoring Service looks at an initiative in Sheffield to promote good early years practice, working with the local Development Education Council, in his feature 'Take root' (pages 26-27).
Peter explains that to feel happy promoting an interest in and understanding of other cultures, practitioners have to first feel confident about their own cultural identity and have an appreciation for it.
