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Children continue to achieve a good level of development at the end of Reception

Friday, October 19, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children achieving a good level of development at the end of the EYFS has risen again, while the gender gap between boys and girls has fallen for the fifth year running.

Brain Development - Big brain?

Features

Monday, October 15, 2018

| Nursery World

How the human brain evolved can teach us a lot about the way it learns and the most effective methods of teaching, says Professor Paul Howard-Jones in this extract from his book

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

News

Monday, October 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Local primary school children are contributing ideas to the multi-million-pound revamp of the V&A Museum of Childhood in plans to make it the ‘world’s most joyful museum for children’.

EYFS best practice - All about… handwriting

Features

Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

What are the expectations of young children’s ability to write by hand and how is this changing in the context of an increasingly digital world, asks Annette Rawstrone

Speech & Language: Part 6 - Smooth talking

Features

Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Stammering is common in young children, and early intervention is key to helping them. Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni explain the causes and explore some strategies

New 'Ready for School' fund to close attainment gap

News

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.

Speech & Language: Part 5 - Small talk

Features

Monday, September 3, 2018

| Nursery World

How language develops between birth and the age of two, from crying to using early words, and when you should be concerned. By Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni

Ofsted calls for early years experts

News

Thursday, August 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is calling for academics, researchers and practitioners to apply to take part in a new early years forum to debate early years teaching and practice.

EYFS best practice - All about… under-threes’ physical development

Features

Monday, August 6, 2018

| Nursery World

Why movement is important for the youngest children and how settings can best provide opportunities to practise it. By Carol Archer

Speech & Language: Part 4 - To attention

Features

Monday, August 6, 2018

| Nursery World

A guide to attention, listening and understanding skills in children from birth to two. By Anne-Marie Tassoni and Penny Tassoni

Schools win funding to help disadvantaged children

News

Friday, July 20, 2018

| Nursery World

A teacher from Salford has won funding to develop young children's communication and language through storytelling, in the Let Teachers SHINE 2018 awards.

Physical Development - Move on!

Features

Monday, July 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Supporting the physical development of children in their first year does not require specialist equipment, explains a new book by the Pre-school Learning Alliance

Speech & Language: Part 3 - Sound the alarm?

Features

Monday, July 9, 2018

| Nursery World

How to recognise when children need extra support to develop phonological awareness, and the best ways to help. By Penny Tassoni and Anne-Marie Tassoni

Early years experts weigh up the revised ELGs

News

Monday, July 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Now that the revised Early Learning Goals are finally out, we asked an expert in each area of learning to give their initial thoughts.

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

News

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'.

Damning report finds Reception Baseline not fit-for-purpose, unethical and damaging

News

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

| Nursery World

The Reception Baseline is ‘flawed, unjustified and wholly unfit for purpose’, according to a report by a leading educational research body.

Non-verbal communication: CPV - In fear

Features

Monday, June 25, 2018

| Nursery World

Child-to-parent violence is often misunderstood. Charlotte Goddard reports on the issue and asks what help is available

EYFS best practice - All about… home education

Features

Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

The number of children being home educated is rising, and the Government wants to give councils more power to monitor them. Meredith Jones Russell reports