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Enabling Environments: Collections - Broad strokes

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Allowing children to explore media and materials enables important learning, but how can practitioners support children's creativity and understanding? Nicole Weinstein explains.

Learning and Development: Flight - Up, up and away!

Features

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A dual lesson in science and creativity arose from one children's centre's project in making and flying a balloon, as Annette Rawstrone hears.

EYFS Activities - Birth to two…counting rhymes

Features

Monday, November 14, 2016

| Nursery World

How to introduce this fun activity. By Penny Tassoni

EYFS Activities: Essential experiences… music

Features

Monday, March 20, 2017

| Nursery World

Bringing music to a setting or the home can only be good for children, explains Penny Tassoni

Art in the Early Years: Part 1 - Introduction

Features

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

The basis for good early years practice in helping children develop their creativity is adults who know how to encourage them and model activity but not control the creative process.

Learning & Development: Boxes - It's not a box!

Features

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

When is a box not a box? When it's a bus, a train, a boat or a bed. Michael Jones describes one innovative nursery project using both child-initiated and adult-led activities.

Learning & Development Music: Part 8 - Express delivery

Features

Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

In the final part of her series, Linda Pound explores the role of music in Expressive Arts and Design

Analysis: More than soundbites for EYFS reform

News

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Only meaningful dialogue between the Government and the early years sector will avoid ideological swings in policy and achieve a balanced approach to reform of the EYFS, say Margaret Edgington, Richard House and Kim Simpson of the Open EYE Campaign.

Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

Features

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

| Nursery World

Provision to enable and challenge the youngest children to direct their own learning is carefully thought out at a centre visited by Nicole Weinstein.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pirates!

Features

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

| Nursery World

Set sail for adventure, imagination and creative activities across all areas of the curriculum with a topic on these popular characters, outlined by Helen Bromley.

Learning & Development: Reading - Spread the word

Features

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Encouraging parents to read to their children is just one aim of the National Year of Reading. Ruth Thomson talks to one nursery chain getting in on the act themselves.

An A to Z of enhancements M is for Mud

Features

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

| Nursery World

Give children new opportunities to develop descriptive language and find new purposes for the malleable mud that they enjoy exploring and playing with so much, says Amy Jackson

Learning & Development: Music - In concert

Features

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

Children aged five and under were the select audience for a series of concerts and workshops, with training for practitioners, as described by Stuart Bruce and Matt Carwardine-Palmer of Orchestras Live.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Crocodiles

Features

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

See how children's interests and a surprise piece of inspiration led to a nursery-wide project that prompted yet more projects, with Angela Chick.

Learning & Development: Music - The great connector

Features

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

| Nursery World

Music sessions will stimulate and build on one of the most powerful natural resources, says Steve Grocott.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: Fizz, bang…

Features

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Increasing numbers of early years settings are recognising the importance of STEM subjects within an early years curriculum. Charlotte Goddard speaks to one, while Anni McTavish makes the case for art and design

Expressive Arts and Design: 3D Structures: Shaping up

Features

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

What are the developmental benefits of using 3D objects in play and making activities, and how can early years settings best resource for this? Penny Tassoni explains

Learning and Development: Supporting role

Features

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

| Nursery World

A traditional story from Diwali became an opportunity for role play, narrative and creative expression that was eagerly grasped by a whole class, as teacher Tessa Fenoughty explains.