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Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

| Nursery World

Children's centres will be paid according to the take-up of free nursery education among disadvantaged two and three-year-olds, in plans unveiled by children's minister Sarah Teather.

New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap

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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

| Nursery World

A‘Ready for School’ fund is being launched to test approaches to close the communication and language gap for disadvantaged children in the North of England.

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019

| Nursery World

Clarks has pledged to train all 6,500 of its staff in developing children’s speech, language and communication skills and engaging with families in stores across the country.

Study highlights benefits of forest school in nursery

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017

| Nursery World

Forest school can contribute to the development of children’s collaborative learning skills, according to research by Loughborough University.

Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

| Nursery World

More than 700,000 Reception children will receive a free book this week, as a study finds reading helps children to open up about their feelings.

Government unveils wide-ranging review of the Early Years Foundation Stage

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Monday, July 5, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's minister Sarah Teather has launched a review of the EYFS, which will consider whether the framework is too bureaucratic and how to shift the focus to getting children ready for education and improving the attainment of children from deprived backgrounds.

Schools 'bribed' to use phonics, MPs' report says

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

| Nursery World

A cross-party group of MPs has warned that the coalition Government's focus on phonics as the only way to teach children to read will lead to a decline in literacy.

Reading test for all six-year-olds given go-ahead

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Friday, September 16, 2011

| Nursery World

The DfE has confirmed that all six-year-olds will take a phonics reading test next June.

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

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Friday, May 14, 2021

| Nursery World

Nearly half of early years providers believe the gap between disadvantaged under-fives and their peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey suggests, with the majority finding that fewer children across all backgrounds are reaching expected pre-Covid levels of attainment.

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

| Nursery World

The education secretary’s insistence that children should be taught to read using synthetic phonics is almost ‘a form of abuse’, a leading academic claims.

Lack of outdoor play in Year One limits children

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A sharp decline in outdoor learning as children move from the Foundation Stage to Year One may reduce opportunities for them to develop their creativity and social skills, finds a new study.

Row breaks out between critics of the revised early years curriculum and DfE

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

| Nursery World

The dispute between a group of early years experts and teachers and the Department for Education over the Government’s planned reforms to the Early Years Foundation Stage has ramped up this week.

Early years practitioners can make 'a positive' difference' to child health

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

| Nursery World

Children’s health has been ‘neglected for far too long in the early years’, a leading expert told delegates at Nursery World’s online CPD conference on the EYFS.

Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations'

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

| Nursery World

The charity Nesta warns that children starting Reception this term will need more support due to the number of hours of early education they have missed in the coronavirus pandemic.

Young children make more mistakes learning new words than parents expect

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

| Nursery World

Learning new words is not always as easy for young children as parents may think, according to the results of a new study.

Teacher-led approach 'best for learning' in early years

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

New research suggests that young children learn better when they have more teacher-led activities.

Fathers urged to read more to their children

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

| Nursery World

Fathers are being encouraged to spend more time reading to their children, after a survey found that mothers believe they have more influence in helping their children learn to read than fathers.

Education policies: Current certainties to new visions

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Monday, May 4, 2015

| Nursery World

A new book looks at the ways we teach children and how we assess their progress - and sets out a vision for improving our methods. One of the book's editors, Dominic Wyse, explains.

League tables loom for EYFS Profile results

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results are to be published by school for the first time, under proposals in the Department for Education's five-year business plan.

ICT - for & against: Toddlers, TV and touchscreens

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Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Do ICT and multimedia in the early years have positive potential, or are they a danger to development? Here, two experts make their case.

The big picture: Calling the tune on the road for families

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Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

Musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra visited the PlayTalkRead bus for an interactive music session to encourage mothers and fathers to have more fun with their children and encourage a life-long appreciation of music.

Programme boosts children's early literacy

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

| Nursery World

An evaluation of the first year of the Making it REAL programme, published today, has found it has been successful in considerably improving children’s early literacy development.

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

| Nursery World

Sixty charities and organisations have joined forces to urge the Prime Minister to do more to improve support for the 1.4 million children with speech, language and communication needs.

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Early Education says that the Government’s revision of the Early Learning Goals has far wider implications and is in effect a re-write of the whole EYFS 'by the back door'.

EYFS REVIEW: Early years sector gives EYFS review a warm welcome

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

| Nursery World

The early years sector has given an overwhelmingly positive response to recommendations made by Dame Clare Tickell in her review of the EYFS.

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Local authorities to pilot payment-by-results in children's centres

New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

Study highlights benefits of forest school in nursery

Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries

Government unveils wide-ranging review of the Early Years Foundation Stage

Schools 'bribed' to use phonics, MPs' report says

Reading test for all six-year-olds given go-ahead

Coronavirus: Nurseries and childminders report widening attainment gap among disadvantaged under-fives

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

Lack of outdoor play in Year One limits children

Row breaks out between critics of the revised early years curriculum and DfE

Early years practitioners can make 'a positive' difference' to child health

Children starting Reception face 'the most challenging school start for generations'

Young children make more mistakes learning new words than parents expect

Teacher-led approach 'best for learning' in early years

Fathers urged to read more to their children

Education policies: Current certainties to new visions

League tables loom for EYFS Profile results

ICT - for & against: Toddlers, TV and touchscreens

The big picture: Calling the tune on the road for families

Programme boosts children's early literacy

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

EYFS REVIEW: Early years sector gives EYFS review a warm welcome

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