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A question of logic

Opinion

Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Sue Cowley asks what summer-born children need

More children doing better at the end of the EYFS

News

Friday, October 17, 2014

| Nursery World

More five-year-olds than ever are reaching a good level of development at the end of Reception, the latest statistics show.

Baseline approval process falters

News

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

Delays appear to have hit the approval process for the Reception baseline assessment after two-thirds of primary schools opted for the same provider, Nursery World can reveal.

Nutbrown review: interim report spells out key messages for qualifications reform

News

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

| Nursery World

Improving literacy and numeracy skills for early years practitioners and bringing in a new licensing system are key issues that Professor Cathy Nutbrown highlights in her interim report published today.

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.

BIG ISSUE: Synthetic phonics

Features

Monday, July 4, 2011

| Nursery World

The Government's plans to make systematic synthetic phonics the primary method of teaching young children to read

Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

News

Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s decision to bring back a baseline assessment in Reception, just two years after it was forced to scrap the previous attempt, is a controversial one (see Analysis, page 14).

Summer-born children 'more likely to do worse' at school

News

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

| Nursery World

August born children are more likely to struggle academically and be unhappy at school, according to new research.

Free books scheme for under-fives extends to all areas

News

Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

The Scottish Book Trust's early years book gifting programme has received an additional 450,000, bringing the total amount of funding for the scheme to 1.5m until 2013.

EYFS REVIEW: children's minister announces further consultation

News

Thursday, December 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Children's minister Sarah Teather has confirmed that a further short consultation on the EYFS will be launched shortly.

Scotland's guidance for working with babies and under-threes is revised

News

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

| Nursery World

Revised guidance and a multimedia resource for Scottish practitioners working with parents from pregnancy, and with babies and children under three, is being unveiled on Wednesday.

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.