Working with parents: The dummy debate
Picking up the ongoing debate about the use of dummies, Sue Asquith explores the pros and cons and how settings can follow best practice while respecting parents’ choices
Birth to Threes
Physical Development: Discover the Pikler approach to free movement
How can free movement be a foundation for young children’s holistic development? Julia Manning-Morton and the Pikler UK Association explain
EYFS Best Practice: Why working with parents is key to working with babies
In the final part of this series, Meredith Jones Russell finds out why settings make an effort to build strong relationships with the parents who use their baby rooms
EYFS Best Practice: Working with babies part 3 – on cue
In the baby room, what should practitioners be looking out for to guide their interactions, asks Meredith Jones Russell
EYFS Best Practice: Working with babies part 2 – creating the right environment
What can settings do to make their baby rooms as safe and stimulating as possible for their youngest children, asks Meredith Jones Russell
EYFS Best Practice: Working with babies part 1 – on the go!
In the first of this four part series Meredith Jones Russell explores the challenges and rewards of working in the baby room and discovers it is a very special place
Steps to progress with neonatal infections
DNA screening can save the hearing of thousands of babies treated for new-born infections such as...
EYFS Activities - Birth to three… swimming
- Practice | Activities | Birth to Threes | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Birth to three...
Being introduced to water at an early age helps children become safe and confident swimmers later...
EYFS activities - Birth to three… balancing
- Practice | Activities | Birth to Threes | Birth to three... | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development
Learning how to balance is a stepping stone for children to become confident in their environment...
EYFS Activities - Birth to three… running
- Practice | Birth to Threes | Birth to three... | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Activities
This complex skill requires getting the basics right before opportunities are provided to practise...
EYFS activities - Birth to three… jumping
- Practice | Birth to Threes | Activities | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Birth to three...
The importance of jumping, and how it relates to the development of later skills such as strength...
EYFS activities - Birth to three… walking
- Practice | Activities | Birth to Threes | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Birth to three...
The importance of walking to development, and how to support both very young and older children to...
Guides & Resources
Treasure Baskets and Heuristic Play
Elinor Goldschmied developed treasure baskets for babies who can sit up and the heuristic play approach for toddlers. Her ideas are still helping to provide a rich and nurturing environment for babies and young children to thrive mentally, emotionally and physically.
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.
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.
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.
EYFS activities - Birth to three… climbing
Why climbing is a vital activity, and how settings can provide opportunities for it, both inside and outdoors. By Dr Lala Manners
Health & Nutrition: Reflux - In a fix?
What is reflux in babies, how should carers deal with it, and when is medical intervention required, asks Meredith Jones Russell
EYFS activities - Birth to three… crawling
- Practice | Activities | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Birth to Threes | Birth to three...
The benefits of crawling for young children (and adults), and how practitioners can support this activity. By Dr Lala Manners
EYFS activities - Birth to three… rolling
- Activities | Practice | Birth to Threes | Early Years Curriculum | Physical Development | Birth to three...
Why rolling is an important physical activity, and how settings can help their children to practise it. By Dr Lala Manners
Around the nursery, part 11 - Toddler time
- Practice | Around The Nursery | The Learning Environment | Birth to Threes | Around the Nursery: Penny Tassoni
In the toddler room, children’s speed of development is very quick – and settings need to make sure they cater for that, explains Penny Tassoni in the final part of her series
Picturebooks part 5 - Hands on!
- Practice | Children’s Books | Equipment & Resources | The Learning Environment | Early Years Curriculum | Communication and Language | Literacy | Birth to Threes | Picturebooks
Introducing babies and toddlers to books will set them on the way to being confident readers later on. Andy McCormack offers some advice and explores examples of age-appropriate titles
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