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Learning & Development: Film - Baboon on the Moon

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

| Nursery World

A short film launched a month-long multi-media project covering everything from science to emotions, says Lynn Scott, foundation stage advanced skills teacher at Childwall Valley Primary School, Liverpool.

Learning & Development: Birds - On the web

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

| Nursery World

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, www.rspb.org.uk/

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Paper work

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

| Nursery World

Nursery children gained a wealth of knowledge and enjoyment from a project in making their own paper.

Learning & Development: Letters and Sounds, Part 1 - Are you listening?

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

| Nursery World

Interpreted and applied correctly, Letters and Sounds gives credence to experiential and interactive learning and the importance of children using their senses to understand their world, says Daniella Cohen. Photograph at boomerang kids, saltdean, by Andrew Hasson.

Learning & Development: Cooking - Stirring stuff

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

| Nursery World

Older people added a special ingredient to a nursery cookery project described by Veronica Broyd, headteacher at Kendal Nursery School in Cumbria.

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: Thinking - Part 4: Big ideas

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Early years settings need to offer provision that will help sustain young children's thinking by using their own initiative, says Marion Dowling.

Learning & Development: Dental care - Open wide

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

A visitor from outside and a well-stocked role play area taught children about dental care

Learning & Development Heuristic Play: Outdoor treasures

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

| Nursery World

It's not just babies who gain from heuristic play - and better still if it takes place outdoors, as Sara Davies found in her research.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 3: Broaden the mind

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

| Nursery World

When children are exposed to a wide range of thought-provoking experiences and encouraged to make their own decisions, they will take responsibility for their learning. Marion Dowling shows how.

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.

Learning & development: ICT - Digital ages

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

One nursery takes a far-sighted approach to incorporating ICT into its daily life and learning, as well as its staff assessments. Ruth Thomson reports.

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 and development: Science - Testing times

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

| Nursery World

Get ready for next month's National Science and Engineering Week - and then keep on having fun all year round with challenges and activities where children and practitioners can learn together, says Ruth Thomson.

Learning and Development: ICT Digital cameras - Picture this!

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

| Nursery World

Having a digital camera to hand puts children at the centre of the picture, whether on screen or in a print display in the classroom, says Harriet Price.

Learning & Development: Our bright idea - Dora's adventure

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

| Nursery World

Communication was the key to searching for treasure in an activity devised by Emma Austin and Sue Milburn.

Early Years Science: Electricity

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

| Nursery World

Help children begin to understand how electricity works, in the final part of our series on Foundation Stage science by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton

Early Years Science: Life

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

| Nursery World

Help children investigate their own signs of life, with activities from Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Early Years Science: Change

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

| Nursery World

Investigate how materials can change and whether they can be restored, with activities from Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Early Years Science: Materials

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

| Nursery World

Encourage children to sort materials by their properties, their forms and their uses, as Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton demonstrate

Early Years Science: Light

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

| Nursery World

Investigate where light comes from and where it goes with activities looking at its effects on objects, in our science series by Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Early Years Science: Life Cycles of Plants

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

| Nursery World

Help children to investigate the life cycles of plants and what we use them for with activities by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton

Early Years Science: Sound

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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

| Nursery World

How sounds are sent and received by our ears, and some simple activities to investigate it, are explained by Pat Brunton and Linda Thornton

Early Years Science: Magnetism

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

| Nursery World

Push comes to pull as children make investigations into magnetism. Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton explain how.

Early Years Science: Air

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

| Nursery World

Our science series by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton considers how air can be moved by natural or manmade forces, and ways for young children to investigate this