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Babies are people

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

All peope have rights, so what about babies' rights? asks Penelope Leach Ph.D, C.Psychol, FBPsS

Campaigners to draw up 'alternative' EYFS

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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

| Nursery World

A new group made up of academics and practitioners will draft an alternative early years curriculum, amid concerns that the review of the EYFS does not go far enough in reforming the current early years framework.

Scotland's baby box to be put on display for future generations

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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Scotland's baby box will be preserved in history at Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood.

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.

Sector outraged at plans to train shop staff to support children's language

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Thursday, February 7, 2019

| Nursery World

The early years community has reacted with horror to reports of a new Government scheme that involves Clarks staff helping children to develop language skills.

Fathers urged to talk to their babies

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Monday, July 23, 2012

| Nursery World

Babies whose fathers engage positively with them at three months old have fewer behavioural problems at the age of one, finds a new study.

Parents blame lack of playgrounds for child health problems

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Friday, August 30, 2019

| Nursery World

Three-quarters of parents say that a lack of play areas is affecting their child's health, figures suggest.

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.

Singer Mollie King launches Dyslexia Awareness Week

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Monday, October 5, 2020

| Nursery World

Presenter and singer Mollie King and the British Dyslexia Association have joined forces to focus on this year’s Dyslexia Awareness Week’s theme: Dyslexia Creates.

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.

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.

Gender stereotyping causes ‘lifelong harm’ - study

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

| Nursery World

Harmful gender stereotypes are significantly limiting children’s potential, warns a report from the Commission on Gender Stereotypes in Early Childhood.

Youngest children not active enough

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

| Nursery World

Just nine per cent of children aged between two and four are doing the right amount of physical activity, experts have claimed.

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.

Tristram Hunt urges parents to play more with their children

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Children are starting school unable to speak properly because their parents are not playing with them enough, Labour’s shadow education secretary has claimed.

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.

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

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Monday, July 15, 2013

| Nursery World

Children's centre budgets should be pooled with those for midwives and health visitors, a cross-party committee of MPs has argued.

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

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Monday, March 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Children from low-income families should have more support in the early years to tackle their speech, language and communication needs says a cross-party group of MPs and peers.

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.

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

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Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have joined forces to protest against the phonics screening check, which all six-year-olds will have to take in the next few weeks.

Poorer pupils could lose out in unproven teaching strategies

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

There is a risk that the 1.25 billion allocated through the pupil premium may not be spent on the best strategies for boosting the achievement of disadvantaged children, the education charity the Sutton Trust has warned.

Children's communication needs as important as fight against obesity

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Thursday, March 29, 2018

| Nursery World

There is 'a wave of interest in early language', says Jean Gross, chair of Bercow: Ten Years On.

Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

| Nursery World

Nursery groups in deprived areas should be led by an early years teacher or equivalent by 2020, a new report by a coalition of more than 80 organisations recommends.

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Babies are people

Campaigners to draw up 'alternative' EYFS

Scotland's baby box to be put on display for future generations

Shops and businesses to help children develop language skills

Sector outraged at plans to train shop staff to support children's language

Fathers urged to talk to their babies

Parents blame lack of playgrounds for child health problems

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

Singer Mollie King launches Dyslexia Awareness Week

Synthetic phonics 'damages' children's love of reading

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

Gender stereotyping causes ‘lifelong harm’ - study

Youngest children not active enough

Education policies: Current certainties to new visions

League tables loom for EYFS Profile results

Tristram Hunt urges parents to play more with their children

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

MPs call for joint children's centre and health budgets to protect services

Children's communication problems must be tackled in the early years

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

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

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

Poorer pupils could lose out in unproven teaching strategies

Children's communication needs as important as fight against obesity

Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas

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