Essential Resources: Equip for Understanding the World
Nicole Weinstein examines the benefits of getting out into nature and the local community and how to support this with resources back in the setting.
Areas of Learning: Understanding the World
Making Christmas unique outdoors
With Christmas meaning different things to different people, Annette Rawstrone finds out how early years settings are marking the occasion in inclusive ways
We‘ve explored… florists
Bright red poppies in the planting area at Little Angels Day Care Nursery in Brighton, East Sussex led children to find out more about flowers, including the role of a florist. By Annette Rawstrone
The Plants in My Street: Conifers
- Activities | Practice | Outdoors: The plants in my street | Outdoors | Early Years Curriculum | Understanding the World
Conifers make up 40 per cent of Earth’s plant cover and provide often-fragrant cones. By Julie Mountain.
Let’s go to… Lisburn Museum, County Antrim
The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum in Northern Ireland offers early years children plenty of learning and play-based activities.
We’ve explored… crocodiles
One chid’s trip to a river sparked a setting-wide interest in crocodiles, expressed through art and scientific investigations, finds Annette Rawstrone
Expressive Arts and Design: Get set to sew!
- Practice | Physical Development | Early Years Curriculum | Expressive Arts and Design | Understanding the World
Sewing promotes sustainable and anti-stereotypical practice and many areas of development, as well...
Make the most of the outdoors this summer
Looking for ideas to excite children’s curiosity outdoors? Take a deep dive into this collection of...
We've explored… tadpoles
A visit to a pond inspired the children at one setting in West Yorkshire to learn about tadpoles and...
Health & Wellbeing: Cost-of-living crisis drives passion for 'good food'
One nursery has replaced processed foods with nutritious and cheap alternativesto create...
EYFS Activities: Let's go to… Towner Eastbourne
- Activities | Expressive Arts and Design | Community | Understanding the World | EYFS activities - Cultural institutions around the country
At Towner, children engaged with the collection and the local countryside through a session on...
EYFS Best Practice: Observation – supporting wider learning
- Practice | Observation, Assessment & Planning | Literacy | Mathematics | Understanding the World | Expressive Arts and Design | Early Years Curriculum
In the final part of her series on observation to support wellbeing, Dr Sue Allingham focuses on...
Guides & Resources
Science in the Early Years
Force, friction, electricity, sound, and light are explored by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton.
Visits and Visitors
A guide to best practice in organising group visits with early years children.
Computational Thinking
Computational skills need to be reflected in curricula and practice, as Marc Faulder shows in this series about teaching computational thinking in the early years.
Specific Areas of the EYFS
Leading experts on the new Specific Areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage - Literacy, Mathematics, Understanding the World, and Expressive Arts and Design - and how to achieve best practice.
EYFS Activities: Let's go to… the Discovery Museum
- Activities | Community | Understanding the World | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum | EYFS activities - Cultural institutions around the country
This Tyneside museum is currently running chemistry-focused sessions for the under-fives, and today's topic is magnets. By EYFS museum educator Amy Baird
We've explored… the world
A parent-run circle time session opened up explorations of countries around the world, which involved kimonos, kilts and a drumming workshop. By Annette Rawstrone
Let's go to… the Kirkleatham Museum
- Activities | Community | Early Years Curriculum | Understanding the World | Practice | EYFS activities - Cultural institutions around the country
Children at this social history museum took on key front-of-house and security roles during a takeover session. By Ellen Bissell, museum outreach officer, and Jo Graham
An A to Z of enhancements: G is for growing
A focus on plants has given children experiences of growing butterflies and African land snails. By Amy Jackson
EYFS Activities: We've explored… a special tree
Finding an oak tree on a visit to a local country park acted as a catalyst for a year-long creative journey. By Annette Rawstrone
EYFS Activities: Let's go to… the Fitzwilliam Museum
- Activities | Expressive Arts and Design | Understanding the World | Community | Communication and Language | Early Years Curriculum | EYFS activities - Cultural institutions around the country
Nicola Wallis, museum educator at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, discusses a programme devised especially to engage hard-to-reach families
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