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

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

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

Features

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.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Special friends

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| Nursery World

Dolls with their own personas and life stories are being used by some practitioners to help raise issues of equality and encourage children to think critically. Vicky Hutchin explains.

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.

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

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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

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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.

Index measures children's well-being

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| Nursery World

A groundbreaking way of measuring the well-being and quality of life of children in the UK has been devised by the Children's Society.

To the Point - Degrees of attachment

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010

| Nursery World

Whenever there is a discussion about children's emotional wellbeing, the desire that all children should have a 'secure attachment' with their parents and key people is usually stated. This desire is well-meant; it is also misguided.

Positive relationships: Attachment, part 1 - Safe and sound

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

| Nursery World

While attachment in theory remains controversial, practitioners need to understand it in order to deliver the EYFS, explains early years consultant Anne O'Connor.

Positive Relationships: Military Families - In service

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

| Nursery World

The disruption of family life from military service has effects upon young children that practitioners need to understand, says Annette Rawstrone.

A Unique Child: Child Development - First love

Features

Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Empathy

Features

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.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - separation

Features

Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Practitioners should acknowledge the feelings that separation can trigger in a young child, a parent and themselves, says Anne O'Connor.

Essential Resources: Self-care - I’m ready!

Features

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

| Nursery World

Supporting children to master the skills of dressing, feeding and toileting enhances their self-esteem. Nicole Weinstein looks at resources to support self-care

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates

Features

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

A simple interaction shows symbolic play and social interaction between toddlers, says Anne O'Connor.

Learning & Development: Intelligence - Smart thinking

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Published to critical acclaim, the book New Kinds of Smart argues that intelligence is expandable. Here, co-author Professor Bill Lucas considers the opportunities this new thinking presents for early years education.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Ask the expert ... From all angles

Features

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

Is one child's aggression a problem, or just a stage? Dr Maria Robinson looks at developmental factors.

Success for nursery music project

News

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

| Nursery World

A community project that aims to boost music-making in nurseries and children's centres in London has been found successful in bringing quality musical experiences to children.

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Cats and dogs

Features

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Help young children explore their love for - or fear of - the most popular family pets with activities in every area of the early years setting, suggested by Judith Stevens.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 2: Deep in thought

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

Practitioners need to identify and observe young children thinking to give them opportunities to move on further, says early years consultant Marion Dowling.

Learning & Development: Rhymes for birth to three - Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

Teddy bear, teddy bear, By Judith Stevens

A unique child: Disability Dolls - Face to face

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

| Nursery World

Well-meaning early years settings may provide dolls like disabled children for the sake of inclusive practice, but it could end up doing more harm than good, as Mary Evans hears from the experts.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wrapping

Features

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Observe how absorbed the children can become in particular schemas when you provide resources and activities suggested by Diana Lawton.

Positive relationships: Let's talk about ... independence

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Is independence something that can be taught? How do early years practitioners approach it with the children's parents? Annette Rawstrone spoke to teachers at a Montessori school.

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

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

Learning & development: Play - Play is what I do

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Special friends

Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

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

Learning & Development: Reading - Spread the word

Index measures children's well-being

To the Point - Degrees of attachment

Positive relationships: Attachment, part 1 - Safe and sound

Positive Relationships: Military Families - In service

A Unique Child: Child Development - First love

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... Empathy

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - separation

Essential Resources: Self-care - I’m ready!

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates

Learning & Development: Intelligence - Smart thinking

Positive Relationships: Behaviour: Ask the expert ... From all angles

Success for nursery music project

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Cats and dogs

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 2: Deep in thought

Learning & Development: Rhymes for birth to three - Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

A unique child: Disability Dolls - Face to face

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Wrapping

Positive relationships: Let's talk about ... independence

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