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Learning & Development: Physical Development - Body doodles

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

| Nursery World

Physical doodles can nurture young children's learning and help them understand their bodies in creative and playful ways. The following extract from a new book offers guidance on getting started.

Learning & Development: ICT - All about ... digital journeys

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Friday, September 20, 2013

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An initiative in Liverpool looking at ICT has taken practitioners into new territory, says project developer Ann Langston of Early Years Matters.

Learning & Development: Rhythm - A fact of life

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Friday, September 6, 2013

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Rhythm is a critical area for both communication and physical skills development, so how can practitioners ensure children's learning is supported? Lala Manners reports.

Learning & Development: Expressive Arts and Design - Top marks

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Friday, September 6, 2013

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An inspiring male role model, in the form of artist Fabric Lenny, has been encouraging creative mark-making alongside improved communication and collaboration. Helen Chilton explains.

Two-year-olds: Communication - Time to talk

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Friday, June 28, 2013

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Practitioners should aim to give children the best possible chance for meaningful communication and language learning, advises Kay Mathieson.

Learning & Development: Finger Rhymes - Thumbs up!

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Picking up rhymes supported by physical actions seems to be innate in children. But how adults mediate is important for later literacy development, says Opal Dunn

Red Nose Day: laughing and learning

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Friday, February 8, 2013

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With its focus on raising money by having a laugh, Red Nose Day gives pre-school children the chance to make a difference by doing what comes naturally. Aleks Leimanis, Schools and Youth Manager at Comic Relief, suggests approaches and resources to help practitioners plan powerful, purposeful learning experiences this Red Nose Day

Learning & Development: Data Handling - In the charts

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Involving children in collecting and presenting data for graphs, charts or pictograms helps them to understand the information.

Learning & Development: Christmas - The big day

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Friday, November 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Lucy and Tom's Christmas offers useful ideas for exploring Christmas traditions and encouraging learning at the same time, says Marianne Sergeant.

EYFS Best Practice: Be Specific ... Expressive Arts and Design

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Friday, November 9, 2012

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The name change from Creative Development to Expressive Arts and Design gives practitioners the chance to rethink how they support creativity within early learning, says Di Chilvers, advisory consultant in early childhood.

Learning & Development: ICT - On the map

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Friday, September 28, 2012

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Exploration of the world in the early years can be supported with an interactive map of your local area. Marianne Sargent offers some guidance on making one.

Learning & Development: Literacy - Dear Zoo

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Friday, August 17, 2012

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Viv Hampshire recreates the setting of picture book Dear Zoo in a local park so a group of children can learn about animals and their habitats.

Enabling Environments: Play and the revised EYFS

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Friday, July 20, 2012

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Community Playthings' new resource 'Play and the Revised EYFS' has advice on how to create enabling environments

Learning and Development: Creativity - Little Big Bang

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Friday, July 20, 2012

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In a bid to improve creative opportunities for the under-fives and their families in Somerset, four artists were placed in nine children's centres. Louise Monks reports on the project's progress.

Learning & Development: Play - Get hooked

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Friday, July 6, 2012

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In this extract from the guide Playing to Learn, author Di Chilvers points out that, in order to teach children, we need to tune into their existing world of play.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Woodwork

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Friday, May 11, 2012

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Woodworking in early years settings fosters creativity and problem solving, says professional sculptor and public artist Pete Moorhouse.

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Understanding the World

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Friday, April 27, 2012

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Ann Langston explains the changes to Understanding the World in the revised framework

Areas of Learning and Development: Prime area: Personal, Social and Emotional Development

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Friday, April 27, 2012

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Ann Langston explains the changes to Personal, Social and Emotional Development in the revised framework

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Expressive Arts and Design

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Friday, April 27, 2012

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Jan Dubiel explains the changes to Expressive Arts and Design in the revised framework

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Mathematics

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Friday, April 27, 2012

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Judith Stevens explains the changes to Mathematics in the revised EYFS framework

Learning & Development: Sense of Time - Beneath the waves

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Friday, April 13, 2012

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A Liverpool infant school is finding new ways to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, says Ann Langston.

Learning & Development: Music - With a bang!

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Monday, April 2, 2012

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Infant school children are communicating, negotiating, planning and performing in sophisticated ways with their own junkyard orchestra, as Michael Jones reports.

Learning & development: The knight and his lady

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Friday, March 16, 2012

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The interests of children at one nursery came to life when a special visitor called. Nursery practitioner Lindsey Noble tells the tale.

Learning & Development: Museums - Past performance

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Friday, March 16, 2012

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The EYFS served as a guide for developing museum visits for under-fives visits. Ruth Gillan tells how.

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty

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Friday, March 2, 2012

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The defining elements of active learning, the second characteristic of effective learning and teaching identified in the Early Years Foundation Stage review, are set out by Jan Dubiel, national development manager of training and resource centre Early Excellence.

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Learning & Development: Physical Development - Body doodles

Learning & Development: ICT - All about ... digital journeys

Learning & Development: Rhythm - A fact of life

Learning & Development: Expressive Arts and Design - Top marks

Two-year-olds: Communication - Time to talk

Learning & Development: Finger Rhymes - Thumbs up!

Red Nose Day: laughing and learning

Learning & Development: Data Handling - In the charts

Learning & Development: Christmas - The big day

EYFS Best Practice: Be Specific ... Expressive Arts and Design

Learning & Development: ICT - On the map

Learning & Development: Literacy - Dear Zoo

Enabling Environments: Play and the revised EYFS

Learning and Development: Creativity - Little Big Bang

Learning & Development: Play - Get hooked

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Woodwork

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Understanding the World

Areas of Learning and Development: Prime area: Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Expressive Arts and Design

Areas of Learning and Development: Specific area: Mathematics

Learning & Development: Sense of Time - Beneath the waves

Learning & Development: Music - With a bang!

Learning & development: The knight and his lady

Learning & Development: Museums - Past performance

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty

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