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Enabling Environments - Inspirational Spaces: Get inspired

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Just what do practitioners enable when they provide the environments that attract children to play? Natalie Canning analyses crucial elements.

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Young boys seem to have a natural urge to wrestle with each other, so what stance should childcarers take? asks Annette Rawstrone.

A Unique Child: Messy play - Practice in Pictures - Mud, mud

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

The sensory experience of messy play has far-reaching benefits for brain development, creativity and risk-taking, says Anne O'Connor

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A thoughtful strategy will help practitioners keep incidents of biting under control, writes Jennie Lindon.

To the Point - Degrees of attachment

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Whenever there is a discussion about children's emotional wellbeing, the desire that all children should have a 'secure attachment' with their parents and key people is usually stated. This desire is well-meant; it is also misguided.

Learning & Development: Small-world play - It's fantastic!

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Play with small, fantasy figurines is an ideal way to address language impoverishment and help to meet the aims of the 'Every Child a Talker' project, says Michael Jones.

In My View - Can we be gender-blind?

Features

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

A four-year-old boy, Jeremy, goes to nursery school wearing hair-slides.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Roots of Empathy

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Young children are learning empathy by caring for even younger babies. Mary Evans finds out how.

A Unique Child: Quiet Children - Time to chat

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Confidence may follow from practitioners giving special attention to the children in a setting who rarely speak up for themselves. Michael Jones explains one approach.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour, Part 3 - Powerful feelings

Features

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Ways that early years staff can thoughtfully engage the parents of challenging children are explored by Pat Gordon-Smith.

Positive relationships: Baby room - Holding the baby

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

Students on placement in early years settings are discouraged from bonding with babies by various factors, as Jackie Musgrave found.

Work Matters: Continuing Professional Development - Addressing behaviour

Features

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Distance learning provides practitioners with the opportunity to develop their knowledge of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Outdoor provision for under-threes

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Babies, toddlers and two-year-olds and the outdoors are a natural combination, with endless benefits for learning and development. Jan White explains where to find them.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Ask the expert ... From all angles

Features

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

Is one child's aggression a problem, or just a stage? Dr Maria Robinson looks at developmental factors.

Positive Relationships: Transitions - Rosie starts reception

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

The ingredients that helped a child to make a confident move up to school are gratefully acknowledged by former early years teacher Phoebe Doyle.

A Unique Child: The developing brain, Part 3 - Face to face

Features

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

The baby's discovery of the social world is described by Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

Learning & Development: Leuven Scales - All's well

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

Practitioners used observation tools developed by academic researchers to assess provision outdoors, as Annie Davy explains.

Positive relationships: Behaviour, Part 1 - In the extreme

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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Supporting children who cannot stay in control may be the ultimate challenge for conscientious practitioners, says Pat Gordon-Smith in the first of four articles on responding to behaviour.

Learning & Development: Intelligence - Smart thinking

Features

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Published to critical acclaim, the book New Kinds of Smart argues that intelligence is expandable. Here, co-author Professor Bill Lucas considers the opportunities this new thinking presents for early years education.

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

This extract from a new book, 'Play Is What I Do', explains the different aspects of young children's play and activities.

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... television

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

The words 'television' and 'young children' when put together are likely to make many parents wince from guilt.

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates

Features

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

A simple interaction shows symbolic play and social interaction between toddlers, says Anne O'Connor.

Positive Relationships: Fathers - Dad's day

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years and family events to highlight the role of fathers could be the perfect way to celebrate Father's Day, says Viv Hampshire.

A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

In its last few weeks in the womb a baby is already busy learning, says Annette Karmiloff-Smith, in the first of a new series on the developing brain.

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... All night long

Features

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

A practitioner's interest in a child's remark about family life poses questions for Dr Maria Robinson.

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Enabling Environments - Inspirational Spaces: Get inspired

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

A Unique Child: Messy play - Practice in Pictures - Mud, mud

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Once bitten ..

To the Point - Degrees of attachment

Learning & Development: Small-world play - It's fantastic!

In My View - Can we be gender-blind?

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Roots of Empathy

A Unique Child: Quiet Children - Time to chat

Positive Relationships: Behaviour, Part 3 - Powerful feelings

Positive relationships: Baby room - Holding the baby

Work Matters: Continuing Professional Development - Addressing behaviour

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Outdoor provision for under-threes

Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Ask the expert ... From all angles

Positive Relationships: Transitions - Rosie starts reception

A Unique Child: The developing brain, Part 3 - Face to face

Learning & Development: Leuven Scales - All's well

Positive relationships: Behaviour, Part 1 - In the extreme

Learning & Development: Intelligence - Smart thinking

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

Positive relationships: A parent's guide to ... television

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates

Positive Relationships: Fathers - Dad's day

A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth

Positive relationships: Ask the expert ... All night long

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