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Call to delay school start and moving on from Reception or Year 1 until January 2021

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Early Education and TACTYC are proposing that children in pre-schools, nurseries, Reception and Year 1 classes stay on in their previous setting or class until January 2021 to support children through the Covid-19 crisis.

Resources for exploring music and language in early years settings launched

News

Monday, July 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Videos demonstrating new ways of encouraging musical exploration within early years settings, along with tips on how to incorporate music into storytelling, are among the latest additions to the online resource, Sound Communities.

Lockdown teaches us that children need less stress

Opinion

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

| Nursery World

Early childhood lecturer Thamara Bulmer's research into young children's experiences of school closures shows that a new reality should mean a new approach, she argues

'Rough and tumble' play with fathers helps children to learn how to control their feelings

News

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

| Nursery World

Children whose fathers make time to play with them from a very young age may find it easier to control their behaviour and emotions as they grow up, research suggests.

Opportunity Areas: Norwich - Talking it up

Features

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

What is being done in deprived areas of Norwich to tackle speech and language delays and disorders, both before and during lockdown. By Charlotte Goddard

EYFS best practice in schools - Together again

Features

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

| Nursery World

Preparing for September’s Year 1 starters, many of whom have had Reception curtailed, is changing the way some schools approach their curriculum. Charlotte Goddard reports

Coronavirus: Option to delay school being explored by UK's largest nursery group

News

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

| Nursery World

The UK's largest nursery group Busy Bees is working with local authorities to explore a funded ‘stay-in-nursery’ scheme, which would give parents the option to delay the start of their child’s primary school for up to two terms.

Paediatricians call on PM for urgent plan for all children to return to school

News

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

| Nursery World

More than 1,500 paediatricians have signed a letter to the prime minister calling for the Government to urgently publish a clear plan for getting all children back to school.

Coronavirus: Call to reopen playgrounds as 'a priority'

News

Friday, June 12, 2020

| Nursery World

Guidelines for when and how playgrounds will be brought back into use ‘must be provided immediately’ if the Government serious about tackling obesity amid the pandemic, the Association of Play Industries has warned.

New learning network for improving children and babies’ mental health launched for early years practitioners

News

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

| Nursery World

A new resource aimed at helping early years workers improve the mental health and development of the babies and children in their care has been developed by mental health experts at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.

NSPCC launches nationwide programme of activities for babies

News

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

| Nursery World

The NSPCC is calling on early years practitioners to help promote a campaign that encourages better childhood brain development.

Health & Nutrition: Brain development - Down to size

Features

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Research has shown a link between extreme deprivation in early childhood and smaller brain size. Meredith Jones Russell reports

Coronavirus: Effects of loneliness in children could last up to nine years

News

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

| Nursery World

Children who have experienced long periods of loneliness are three times more likely to suffer from depression in years to come, according to a review looking into the long-term mental health impacts of lockdown.

Coronavirus Pandemic - Unique times

Features

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

| Nursery World

How can we best prepare for children – and ourselves – returning to normality, asks Phil Armstrong

Lockdown life: Reasons to be cheerful?

Features

Thursday, May 14, 2020

| Nursery World

While some families are struggling during the coronavirus lockdown, many others are enjoying the extra time spent together, the slower pace of life and getting to know each other better

Labour schools shadow calls for baseline assessment to be cancelled

News

Thursday, May 14, 2020

| Nursery World

Shadow Schools Minister Margaret Greenwood is pressing Nick Gibb, School Standards Minister, to abandon the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) to support emotional well-being as children return to school after the coronavirus lockdown.

New picture book aims to soothe children's isolation worries

News

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

| Nursery World

A picture book about a bear going into hibernation has been published with the aim of helping early years children to open up about their anxieties and emotions during lockdown.

Avoiding the ‘terrible twos’ during lockdown

News

Thursday, May 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Happy babies can get through the ‘terrible twos’ with minimal behavioural problems if they are supported by a flexible method of parenting, a leading Cambridge academic told Nursery World.

Coronavirus: Research to look into impact of lockdown on young children's contact with nature

News

Thursday, May 7, 2020

| Nursery World

Children’s contact with nature and the outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic is being studied by a PhD researcher at the University of Hull.

Screen time negatively impacts children's ability to conjure up images

News

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Children who spend more time on screens, rather than being actively involved in physical play, have an impaired ability to conjure up mental images, a German study has revealed.

Supporting Schemas - Link up

Features

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

Can supporting children’s schemas increase their level of involvement in learning activities? Yes, explains Dr Amanda Thomas

Child Development: 5 things you need to know about… empathy

Features

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

| Nursery World

What is empathy, how does it develop in the early years, and what can practitioners and parents do to support it? Ruth Thomson explains

Keeping children healthy indoors, part 4: On the wall

Features

Monday, May 4, 2020

| Nursery World

Activity ideas that need only some wall space and masking tape, in part 4 of our parent's guides to keeping children physically active indoors during the coronavirus lockdown.

Keeping children healthy indoors, part 3: on the floor

Features

Thursday, April 30, 2020

| Nursery World

The floor is a fantastic piece of apparatus, and often overlooked when we are thinking of ways to support children’s physical activity, so try these ideas in part 3 of our parent's guides to keeping children physically active indoors during the coronavirus lockdown.

Prepare to meet the new reality of early childhood

Opinion

Monday, April 27, 2020

| Nursery World

We don’t just need an exit strategy...we need a new reality for early childhood, says Eunice Lumsden, head of early years at the University of Northampton