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Sue Palmer talks about Early Childhood Action, a new campaign group made up of academics and practitioners, who last week announced plans to draft an alternative to the EYFS.

EYFS REVIEW: children's minister announces further consultation

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's minister Sarah Teather has confirmed that a further short consultation on the EYFS will be launched shortly.

To the point: It's just not 'good' enough

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

Sometimes it seems as if the language spoken in nurseries is evolving in its own unique way, distinct from the ways that other people speak.

To the point: Just playing by the rule

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

Recently, someone I respect a good deal said how much she had appreciated the rule that 80 per cent of the assessments for the EYFS Profile had to be child-initiated learning, and only 20 per cent adult-initiated.

In My View - On holistic learning

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

| Nursery World

Melian Mansfield, chair of the Early Childhood Forum, based at NCB

Nursery World and National Literacy Trust launch language development survey

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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

| Nursery World

How do you support language development? Take part in our survey and you could win free membership of the National Literacy Trust's Early Years Network.

Dance and exercise - Wake-up call

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Children call the tune in daily music and exercise workouts that offer lots of added learning and development, says Karen Faux.

Learning & Development: EYFS Review - Behind the scenes

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners are too busy serving the needs of the system created by the Early Years Foundation Stage, argues Wendy Ellyatt.

New guidance covers risks in outdoor play

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

New guidance on outdoor play aims to dispel some popular myths about health and safety and risk.

Settings share green ideas

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

A new book by the Pre-School Learning Alliance aims to make it easier for nurseries and early years settings to go green and foster an understanding of environmental awareness and climate change.

Early Years Foundation Stage - Time to build on its strengths

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Friday, February 19, 2010

| Nursery World

Ahead of a much-anticipated review of the EYFS this year, many nursery heads have firm views on which aspects of the framework need to be improved, writes Melanie Defries.