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.
Equipment & Resources
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
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 from next year’s exhibition, including snippets of seminar content and what went into the planning behind the scenes
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
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
Outdoors: How to resource a 'wild' space
- Practice | Outdoors | Equipment & Resources | Resources | Outdoor Provision & Play | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum | Award-winning outdoor spaces
Julie Mountain visits past Nursery World award winners to discover how to resource and lead a high quality ‘wild’ space outdoors
Essential Resources: Equip to support children's sense of self
- Practice | Essential Resources | Equipment & Resources | Personal, Social and Emotional Development | Early Years Curriculum
Every child needs a secure and positive sense of their identity. Nicole Weinstein finds out how to...
An A to Z of enhancements: J is for Junk
- An A to Z of enhancements | Early Years Curriculum | Activities | Equipment & Resources | Practice | The Learning Environment
Enhancements that incorporate junk modelling can have numerous benefits and unexpected outcomes,...
Essential Resources: Supporting social and emotional development (part 1)
- Practice | Essential Resources | Equipment & Resources | Personal, Social and Emotional Development | Early Years Curriculum
How can the environment provide security at the same time as building relationships? Nicole...
Essential Resources: C&L 2 – playful talk
Which resources can help young children explore language, and what are the basic principles that...
Physical Development: Wheely good?
Whether or not to use bikes at early years settings is the subject of some debate, finds Caroline...
Professional book reviews: Must reads
Dr Cath Arnold reviews a book that gives a scientific insight into children's developing brains in...
Guides & Resources
Collections
This series aims to help practitioners be more responsive to children's interests and reflect on how thoughtful resourcing can truly broaden and progress their learning. It sets out what to include in a core collection for everyday use.
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.
Continuous Provision
What is meant by continuous provision, and what does it require of early years practitioners? Anne O'Connor explains the key elements in this four-part series.
Let's Explore
Activities inspired by popular early years themes.
We've explored… boxes
- Activities | Let’s Explore | Expressive Arts and Design | Characteristics of Effective Learning | Resources | Equipment & Resources | Practice
Staff at one Yorkshire setting replaced many resources with boxes, a project which culminated in children collaborating on building a huge castle. By Annette Rawstrone
Essential Resources: Pioneers & Influencers – keeping it real
- Practice | Resources | Equipment & Resources | Communication and Language | Early Years Pioneers: resources
The late Helen Bromley's focus on authentic resources that prompt children to ‘talk’ is one of her key legacies, finds Nicole Weinstein in the final feature of this series
Outdoors: the plants in my street - willow
- Practice | Activities | Outdoors | Outdoors: The plants in my street | Enabling Environments | Equipment & Resources | Early Years Curriculum
Plants are local to everyone and fertile ground for activity ideas. This year, outdoors specialist Julie Mountain will be pointing out some commonly found flora and what you can do with it
Essential Resources: Pioneers & Influencers – friendly fire
- Practice | Equipment & Resources | Early Years Pioneers: resources | Enabling Environments | Early Years Curriculum
Penny Holland's pioneering work on gun play, a controversial and emotive subject, is worth revisiting in these times, Nicole Weinstein discovers as part of her resources series
Professional Books - Winning titles
Karen Hart shines a spotlight on 2022's Nursery World Professional Book of the Year and also finds much to inform and enjoy in the award category's finalists
Essential Resources: Equip to reflect David Sobel's seven steps of natural play
David Sobel's seven principles of natural play are a great checklist for planning quality outdoor play places for children, Nicole Weinstein discovers
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