New online Practice Guides available

Nursery World's online Practice Guides bring together articles from our best practice series, all written by leading experts, to provide easy access for practitioners and students.

Penny Tassoni's Two-Year-Olds series looks at all aspects of supporting the particular needs of this age group, with the expansion of the Government's free places programme for disadvantaged two-year-olds now in full operation.

This includes settling-in, social development, independence, behaviour, schemas, language development and much more.

• See the Practice Guide here

Outdoors is another top topic for early years professionals, and two new Practice Guides by Julie Mountain examine different aspects of outdoor provision.

• Outdoors in Winter offers creative approaches to outdoor play when it's cold, wet and windy.
• The 7Cs Approach to Outdoor Spaces looks at an innovative project exploring outdoor space design for young children, including character, change and challenge.