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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 EAL: Dual purpose

    Features
  • 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

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

We've explored… gardening

    Features
  • Friday, June 2, 2023
  • | Nursery World
After reading a story about a green-fingered young gardener, nursery school children were inspired to design a plot of their own. By Annette Rawstrone

Pre-school boosts literacy in teen years

    News
  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Children who attend pre-school education before they start school are much better readers at age 15 than those who do not, according to an international study.

Big picture: Bench marks

    News
  • Monday, October 20, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Fifty unique 'BookBenches' designed by well-known artists and illustrators and inspired by books, including children's classics Peter Pan, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Lauren Child's Clarice Bean stories, have raised more than £250,000 at auction for the National Literacy Trust.

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