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.
The Learning Environment
All on board with whiteboards
Whiteboards at one setting in northwest London have become a collaborative focal point for planning activities and documenting children’s thoughts and practitioners’ responses in a visible way, explain Chevone Newman and Di Chilvers
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.
Alison Clark's Slow Pedagogy: How to be 'slow' outdoors
What is ‘slow pedagogy’ and what does it look like for children and practitioners when taken outdoors, asks Alison Clark
Professional Book: On brain and body
Dr Cath Arnold reviews Sally Goddard Blythe's Reflexes, Movement, Learning and Behaviour, a complex study of the development of the body’s reflexes
The plants in my street: Horse chestnut trees
Best known for their conkers, Julie Mountain explains how to make the most of horse chestnuts
The plants in my street: Oak trees
- Outdoors | Outdoors: The plants in my street | Practice | Activities | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum
Oak can support more than 2,000 species, is great for climbing – and has acorns. By Julie Mountain
Book Reviews: Pick of the best picture books
Karen Hart reviews six excellent picturebooks, spanning both fiction and non-fiction, whose subject...
Nursery World Show 2024: A sneak preview at the seminar programme
Angelica Celinska, Nursery World Show 2024 programme lead, shares some insights into what to expect...
Make the outdoors a place of 'irresistible temptations'
- Practice | Enabling Environments | Outdoors | Physical Development | Award-winning outdoor spaces | Early Years Curriculum
In the final part of her series on former Nursery World Award winners, Julie Mountain explores what...
Special Focus: How to approach refreshing your provision
As the start of the next academic year approaches, Karen Hart finds out how early years settings can...
Outdoors: Natural adventures
- Practice | Outdoors | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Award-winning outdoor spaces
How do settings with the best outdoor spaces embed high-quality teaching and learning? Julie...
Guides & Supplements
Early Years in School
Nursery World’s special report on school early years provision to inspire and support 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.
Prime Areas of the EYFS
Expert advice on the new Prime Areas of the revised Early Years Foundation Stage - Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development, and Communication and Language. Focus on three to fives and under-threes.
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.
Essential Resources: Equip to support fine and gross motor skills
Children need to fine-tune the small muscles in their hands, fingers and wrists to build up the strength for writing. Nicole Weinstein looks at resources for fine motor development
The plants in my street: Time to go blackberry picking
August is the traditional blackberry month – so get a-foraging, says Julie Mountain
Communication & Language: How to support children's learning at home
- Communication and Language | Working with Parents | Enabling Environments | Equipment & Resources | Practice
In part 2 of her enabling environments series, Dr Tanya Richardson of the University of Northampton investigates how to promote speech and language at home
EYFS Best Practice: All about … beach schools
- Practice | Outdoors | Enabling Environments | Characteristics of Effective Learning | Learning & Development | The Learning Environment | Early Years Curriculum
Beach School sessions allow for the same ‘awe and wonder’ for children and exploration experience as in Forest School– but with added drama. By Annette Rawstrone
Outdoors: The plants in my street – grass
- Practice | Activities | Outdoors | Outdoors: The plants in my street | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum
Let grass grow, says Julie Mountain, and discover a world of sensory, STEM and environmental benefits
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 Richardson at the University of Northampton has codified them
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