Health Visitor Advice: Tackling young children's tooth decay
Senior health visitor Shirley Adebayo, of North Middlesex University Hospital, sets out how early years settings can help tackle the epidemic of tooth decay among young children
Child Development
Health & wellbeing: Money talks
It is not too soon to introduce early years children to the concept of financial management, finds Annette Rawstrone
Health Visitor Advice: Spotting language delays
In this series by senior health visitors, Shirley Adebayo, a senior health visitor at North Middlesex University Hospital, London, talks about stages of speech and language development following a case of pre-verbal three-year-old boys
Health & Wellbeing: How to support parents as formula milk soars in price
With parents struggling to buy infant formula resorting to unsafe practices, there are calls for benefits to be increased. By Annette Rawstrone
Speech and Language: Explore a new evidence-based programme, Talking Time
- Practice | Child Development | Communication and Language | Personal, Social and Emotional Development | CPD | Careers & Training
How a universal programme is helping settings to support children with language development. By Caroline Vollans
Health & Wellbeing: Tuning in to what makes children happy
Following a report on the mental health, wellbeing and happiness of three- to five-year-olds that asked children about their emotions, Annette Rawstrone looks at the findings and asks what early years practitioners can learn from them
Health visitor advice: Addressing the negative effects of the pandemic
In this series of columns written by senior health visitors, Yvonne Douglas at Highland Health...
Health & Wellbeing: Coming together
A project to help refugee families with children under five is boosting their confidence as they try...
Health visitor advice: Addressing pigeon toes
In a series written by senior health visitors, Yvonne Douglas at Highlands Health Visiting Team in...
Health visitor advice: 'Make safeguarding everyone's business'
In a new series of columns penned by senior health visitors, Rachel Costis, operational manager for...
Communication and Language: Discover talking places
- Practice | Communication and Language | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum | Child Development
What are the elements of a good environment for developing speech and language skills? Dr Tanya...
Sustainability: New climate education document aims to give children agency
The drive to net zero includes educating children on climate change and sustainability. Dr Diane...
Guides & Resources
School Readiness
The phrase 'school readiness' is taking a high profile in Government reports and policy, but what does it mean, and how should early years practitioners respond? David Whitebread and Sue Bingham look at perspectives that can inform planning for children's learning.
Two-year-olds by Penny Tassoni
This 12-part series by Penny Tassoni, renowned early years expert, author and trainer, offers invaluable advice on all aspects of learning, development and behaviour of two-year-old children.
How Children Learn
In a three-part series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning - Playing and Exploring, Active Learning and Creativity and Critical Thinking - highlighted in the revised EYFS.
The Developing Brain
How babies learn, both in the womb and after they are born, by one of the UK's most eminent experts in infant cognitive development, Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith.
Health & Wellbeing: Give babies the feel-good factor
Understanding mental health issues in babies requires specific expertise – yet this means they are often overlooked. By Annette Rawstrone
We've explored… gardening
- Child Development | Outdoors | Let's Explore | Practice | Children’s Books | Early Years Curriculum | Literacy
After reading a story about a green-fingered young gardener, nursery school children were inspired to design a plot of their own. By Annette Rawstrone
Physical development on a budget: Use the stairs
- Physical Development | EYFS Activities: Physical development on a budget | Early Years Curriculum | Activities | Child Development | Enabling Environments | Practice
In the final instalment of this eight-part series, Dr Lala Manners considers how stairs can be used to support strength, balance, co-ordination and agility
Research Nurseries: A visit to the University of Stirling's psychology kindergarten
- Research | Practice | Management | Workforce | Learning & Development | The Learning Environment | Child Development | Child Development | Research nurseries
A nursery ‘research lab’ that sits within the University of Stirling’s psychology division is providing innovative child development research, Nicole Weinstein discovers
Neuroscience: Understand the 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' brain
Why do some children ‘flip their lid’? Mine Conkbayir explains in this edited extract of her book The Neuroscience of the Developing Child.
Child Behaviour: Understand young children's individual learning styles
‘Conation’ is the will or urge to do something. Helen Garnett explores the importance of understanding children's different styles of motivation for learning and development
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