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Health & Wellbeing : Working with parents to support healthy eating

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Amid the cost-of-living crisis, one award-winning setting is encouraging children to eat healthily both on-site and when they go home, finds Meredith Jones Russell

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements – E is for Environmental Awareness

Features

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

Enhancements are a good tool for learning about the natural world and our place in it, finds Amy Jackson

Outdoors: the plants in my street - willow

Features

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

Plants are local to everyone and fertile ground for activity ideas. This year, outdoors specialist Julie Mountain will be pointing out some commonly found flora and what you can do with it

Essential Resources: Pioneers & Influencers – friendly fire

Features

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

Penny Holland's pioneering work on gun play, a controversial and emotive subject, is worth revisiting in these times, Nicole Weinstein discovers as part of her resources series

EYFS Activities: Let's go to… the National Maritime Museum

Features

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

In a new series on early years programmes at cultural spaces across the country, atelierista and EYT Abigail Horn and her cohort explore a lighthouse

EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… vehicles

Features

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

A charity has made the most of local connections to bring tractors, diggers and lorries to its setting, provoking huge opportunities for learning. By Annette Rawstrone

Deprived children less likely to achieve a good level of development, reveal EYFSP results

News

Thursday, November 24, 2022

| Nursery World

Less than half of children eligible for free school meals achieved a good level of development at the end of Reception, reveal the latest EYFS profile results.

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements - D is for Display

Features

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

| Nursery World

Displays can be used to support children's learning and development if they are carefully thought out, purposeful and accessible, says Amy Jackson

DfE-funded website still fails to include all EYFS areas of learning despite amendment

News

Thursday, November 3, 2022

| Nursery World

Oak National Academy has updated its website to more accurately reflect the EYFS, however it only lists five of the seven areas of learning, leaving early years experts confused at such a change.

Educators call for primary school testing to be scrapped

News

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

| Nursery World

A new report calls for all tests in primary school, including the baseline assessment and phonics screening check, to be replaced by a system that prioritises children’s learning.

Outdoors: Key 11 – guidance on supporting challenging play

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Children need to push their boundaries in all directions, so finding the balance between safety and challenge is central to this strand of the outdoors, says Professor Jan White

EYFS Activities: Music – get moving to rhyme

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Music, movement and rhyme go together like roast carrots and thyme, say Boogie Mites’ Sue Newman, and Michael Rosen

EYFS Activities: We've explored – wildlife

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Mysterious pawprints and explorations with a wildlife camera became the launchpad for a much deeper understanding of nature. By Annette Rawstrone

Government keeps the early years sector guessing on childcare reforms

News

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years organisations and campaigners have urged the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to scrap plans to change staff-to-child ratios, and axe the deregulation agenda pursued by the previous PM Liz Truss.

Campaign calls for EYFS to include sensory food play

News

Friday, October 21, 2022

| Nursery World

Baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen has launched a national campaign calling on the Government to improve childhood nutrition by introducing sensory food play in all early years settings.

A new conversation has begun!

Opinion

Friday, October 14, 2022

| Nursery World

The arena of Early Childhood Education (ECE) has always been, and continues to be, an intense area of discussion and debate, says James Hempsall, founder of hey!

Check out these new picture books

Review

Friday, October 7, 2022

| Nursery World

Deadpan humour, fantasy, themes of friendship and discovering the joy of dance all feature in the latest batch of children's picture books which come highly recommended by Karen Hart.

Nursery World Awards 2022 - Eco-Friendly Early Years

Features

Saturday, October 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Joint winner: Jayne's Nursery, Chelmsford

Early years experts call for incorrect information on DfE funded website to be amended

News

Friday, September 30, 2022

| Nursery World

Early years experts are calling for Oak National Academy, which provides online teaching resources and is partially funded by the DfE, to update its website to accurately reflect the EYFS areas of learning.

EYFS Activities – We’ve explored… rights and refugees

Features

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

A project on rights – prompted by children showing nurturing skills in the setting – ended in them becoming fully engaged with the plight of refugees. By Annette Rawstrone

Your outdoor calendar: October

Features

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

The days are getting shorter and you can literally smell the seasons changing – but autumn is a wonderful time to be outdoors and active! By Julie Mountain

Outdoors: Key 10 – Your best resource

Features

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

How can leaders ensure that staff are supporting the setting’s outdoors provision to the best of their ability, asks Professor Jan White

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements - B is for books

Features

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Amy Jackson continues her tour of the alphabet of enhancements to continuous provision, looking at inventive ways to use books to deepen learning

Special Report – Discovering new approaches to sensory play

Features

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

There is a lot more to messy play than wet and sticky gloop, discovers Nicole Weinstein as she looks at the importance of sensory experiences in children’s play and learning