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Learning & Development: Movement sessions: Part 5 - Song time

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Organising children to sing songs along to actions or stories is the focus of another movement session by Helen Bilton.

Learning & Development: Play - Party time

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

The role of play in young children's learning is finding new defenders around the world. Ruth Thomson hears some of the latest thinking.

Learning & Development: Development Matters - Next steps

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Monday, November 4, 2013

| Nursery World

With Development Matters removed from both the Department for Education's website and the Ofsted inspectors' guidance, Lena Engel examines its history and asks what the implications are for practice.

Learning and Development: Well-being Part 3 - Zest for life

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners must take care to indulge and maintain the natural motivation that children show from babyhood, says Marion Dowling.

Learning & Development: Communication - Part 5 - Think twice

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

| Nursery World

Let the home language into the nursery for children communicating bilingually, says Helen Moylett

Learning & Development: Two-year-olds: Part 7 - Helping hands

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Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

An understanding of fine motor skills and how they affect children's development can help you to provide the best type of resources and support. Penny Tassoni offers expert insight.

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

The defining elements of active learning, the second characteristic of effective learning and teaching identified in the Early Years Foundation Stage review, are set out by Jan Dubiel, national development manager of training and resource centre Early Excellence.

EYFS Best Practice: Prime time - Under threes ... Personal, Social and Emotional Development

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Friday, August 3, 2012

| Nursery World

In promoting PSED, Norland Nursery chose to focus on the elements in isolation as well as how they weave together. Clare Crowther explains.

Learning & Development: Small-world play - It's fantastic!

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Play with small, fantasy figurines is an ideal way to address language impoverishment and help to meet the aims of the 'Every Child a Talker' project, says Michael Jones.

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - My Mistake

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Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

When learning a language, children often say things that don’t sound quite right. In the last article in this series, Professor Julian Pine explains why ‘clever mistakes’ are often a sign of progress

Learning & Development: Communication: Part 1 - Time to talk

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

A new series on communication skills and good early years practice is launched by Helen Moylett.

Learning & Development: Childhood - Listen up!

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Monday, October 31, 2011

| Nursery World

The feelings of children about their early years learning experiences have been captured in new research by Jacqui Cousins.

Learning & Development: ICT - Take notes

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Apps are becoming the latest must-have in helping practitioners with observation, assessment and planning, says Mary Evans.

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

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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.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting babies' emotional development

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Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

Ensuring that babies mature in a positive manner is an important but challenging task, says Bernadette Duffy

Nursery World Awards 15: Equipment - professional books

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Sunday, September 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Winner- Foundations of Child Development series,various authors, Routledge

Learning & Development: Language - Time to talk

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

Poor communication skills in young children are the subject of a new strategy for an education team working in partnership with a primary care trust, says Adele Hawkes.

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

This extract from a new book, 'Play Is What I Do', explains the different aspects of young children's play and activities.

Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

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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.

Learning & Development EAL: Dual purpose

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Friday, October 12, 2012

| Nursery World

A training project to help early years practitioners assess the development of children with English as an additional language has proved highly effective. Julie Cigman explains

'Talking timetable' supports children with EAL

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

| Nursery World

Children with English as an additional language are benefitting from the introduction of a visual and audio timetable and story sacks at a Lancashire nursery.

Physical Development - Move on!

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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

Learning & Development: Reading - Spread the word

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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.

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Empathy

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Friday, May 17, 2013

| Nursery World

A lack of consideration for others is seen as the root of many social problems - hence the key role of the early years in developing empathy in children.