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Get your tickets to our Sustainability in the Early Years conference

Thursday, June 9, 2022

| Nursery World

There's just less than a month to go until our conference on sustainability on 13 July where delegates will hear from a top line-up of presenters about how to adopt sustainable practice and provision.

Early years experts warn Sir Michael not to lose sight of the EYFS

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

| Nursery World

Early years organisations have written a joint letter to Sir Michael Wilshaw to air their concerns ahead of Ofsted’s early years annual report on Thursday, which will be published alongside a report on school readiness.

Montessori closes attainment gap for pre-school children

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Monday, November 27, 2017

| Nursery World

An American study in academic journal Frontiers in Psychology has found that Montessori early years settings can improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.

Analysis: Teacher-led activities 'produce better results'

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

The upcoming review of the Early Years Foundation Stage needs to look carefully at worldwide studies of effective pre-school approaches, says Oli de Botton of the CfBT Education Trust.

New resources show how tablets can aid literacy

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Monday, June 27, 2016

| Nursery World

As learning how to swipe a screen becomes as much a part of a young child’s development as turning the page of a book, what role does digital technology play in helping children learn to read?

Children should have parenting lessons, poverty tsar says

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Government poverty adviser Frank Field is to call for all children to be given parenting classes at school when he presents recommendations from his review into poverty to education secretary Michael Gove.

Analysis: Sign up for 'Hello' campaign

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

There's plenty that you can do to be support this vital drive, says Communication Champion Jean Gross, who spoke to Melanie Defries.

Interview - Dr Linda Mitchell

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Monday, October 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Dr Linda Mitchell, Associate professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Waikoto, New Zealand.

Programme helps to close achievement gap for disadvantaged pupils

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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Children at schools supported by the education charity Achievement for All are closing the gap with their peers in reading, writing and maths, according to an independent review.

New measurement tracking early literacy progress to launch

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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

| Nursery World

A campaign group concerned with early language is to create a new national measurement of children’s reading.

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

| Nursery World

Peppa Pig’s Daddy Pig has been unveiled as Ambassador for BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity.

Early years sector raises concerns about revised EYFS amid a broad welcome

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Monday, April 2, 2012

| Nursery World

The revised Early Years Foundation Stage has received a broadly positive response from the early years sector, although some reservations have been raised over the requirement for progress checks on two-year-olds.

'Parents need to talk to babies'

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

One fifth of expectant parents believe it is beneficial to communicate with their baby only from the age of three months, according to new research published by the National Literacy Trust to coincide with Talk to Your Baby's first campaign to directly target parents.

Campaigners urge ministers to say 'no' to the baseline

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Friday, March 20, 2015

| Nursery World

Early years organsiations and teaching unions have joined forces to protest against the introduction of the baseline assessment.

Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

| Nursery World

Senior teachers want a 'complete review' of the way pupils are assessed as they say the current regime is ineffective and puts unnecessary stress on children.

Wales unveils experience-rich curriculum

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Monday, June 10, 2019

| Nursery World

The Foundation Phase in Wales is to be replaced with a new curriculum for children aged three to 16, in which religious education will be made mandatory from the age of three.

Phonics training company to run literacy centre

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has come under fire for awarding the contract to run a centre that will train Reception teachers to teach children to read to a leading commercial phonics provider.

Exclusive: I don't understand anxiety over new handbooks, says Ofsted chief

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Monday, July 8, 2019

| Nursery World

The Ofsted chief inspector has said anxiety about the creation of a two-tier system for early years inspections has been ‘whipped up’ by a handful of early years representatives.

Foundation Stage Profile shows lower achievement by boys and minorities

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Poor white boys are doing less well than most other children at the age of five, the latest results from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile reveal.

Third of schools opposed to new Baseline test, but nearly all plan to implement it

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Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Nearly a third of schools are not in favour of the Reception baseline, new research suggests.

More children doing better at the end of the EYFS

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Friday, October 17, 2014

| Nursery World

More five-year-olds than ever are reaching a good level of development at the end of Reception, the latest statistics show.

England football star in bid to get more children reading

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Friday, June 13, 2014

| Nursery World

At the start of the World Cup, England midfielder Frank Lampard has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to encourage children to take ‘reading selfies’.

Opera sessions let babies call the tune

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Babies as young as six months can call the tune in an interactive opera devised by the Scottish Opera company.

Baseline approval process falters

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Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

Delays appear to have hit the approval process for the Reception baseline assessment after two-thirds of primary schools opted for the same provider, Nursery World can reveal.

Nutbrown review: interim report spells out key messages for qualifications reform

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Improving literacy and numeracy skills for early years practitioners and bringing in a new licensing system are key issues that Professor Cathy Nutbrown highlights in her interim report published today.

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Get your tickets to our Sustainability in the Early Years conference

Early years experts warn Sir Michael not to lose sight of the EYFS

Montessori closes attainment gap for pre-school children

Analysis: Teacher-led activities 'produce better results'

New resources show how tablets can aid literacy

Children should have parenting lessons, poverty tsar says

Analysis: Sign up for 'Hello' campaign

Interview - Dr Linda Mitchell

Programme helps to close achievement gap for disadvantaged pupils

New measurement tracking early literacy progress to launch

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

Early years sector raises concerns about revised EYFS amid a broad welcome

'Parents need to talk to babies'

Campaigners urge ministers to say 'no' to the baseline

Schools call for overhaul of primary school testing

Wales unveils experience-rich curriculum

Phonics training company to run literacy centre

Exclusive: I don't understand anxiety over new handbooks, says Ofsted chief

Foundation Stage Profile shows lower achievement by boys and minorities

Third of schools opposed to new Baseline test, but nearly all plan to implement it

More children doing better at the end of the EYFS

England football star in bid to get more children reading

Opera sessions let babies call the tune

Baseline approval process falters

Nutbrown review: interim report spells out key messages for qualifications reform

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