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EYFS Activities – We’ve explored… rights and refugees

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

A project on rights – prompted by children showing nurturing skills in the setting – ended in them becoming fully engaged with the plight of refugees. By Annette Rawstrone

Let’s go to… Lisburn Museum, County Antrim

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

| Nursery World

The Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum in Northern Ireland offers early years children plenty of learning and play-based activities.

EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… campfires

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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

| Nursery World

How one setting’s use of open-ended resources outdoors led to the recreation of a campfire. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: N is for…nature

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

| Nursery World

Spending time outside in their setting’s garden allows children and staff alike to use nature as an ever-changing learning resource, explain the Rachel Keeling Nursery School team

Young V&A will ‘celebrate play’

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Friday, October 1, 2021

| Nursery World

The V&A Museum of Childhood has been renamed the Young V&A, as work begins on its £13m refurbishment, with its aim to become ‘the UK’s premier national museum entirely dedicated to children’.

Essential Resources: Containing Scheme - Going all in

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Tuesday, November 23, 2021

| Nursery World

Why the ‘containing scheme’ is an important part of play and learning in the early years, and how settings can appropriately resource for it. By Nicole Weinstein

Essential Resources: Schemes, Positioning - Right on

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Some resourcing ideas for supporting children’s interest in the positioning scheme. By Nicole Weinstein

Essential Resources: Pioneers & Influencers - Soft touch

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

| Nursery World

An understanding of sustainability is at the heart of today’s Steiner Waldorf schools, as Nicole Weinstein discovers in this series which links resources to key thinkers in early years pedagogy

Early Years Science: Forces

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

| Nursery World

Learn about forces and then investigate their effects with the children, in the first part of a new science series by Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton

Digital Technology: Take control

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Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Technology – especially the kind that involves screens – always divides opinion when it comes to children. Meredith Jones Russell talks to two digital tech experts to find out how they think the subject should be represented within the revised EYFS

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Whatever the weather

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Friday, May 31, 2013

| Nursery World

Active outdoor play has many benefits for children. Viv Hampshire explains how her children's centre is encouraging families to get out and about, rain or shine.

Enabling Environments: Community - What is school for?

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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

| Nursery World

A three-year place-based learning project helped children to locate themselves in the community and wider world, says Will Coleman.

Analysis: Teacher-led activities 'produce better results'

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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The upcoming review of the Early Years Foundation Stage needs to look carefully at worldwide studies of effective pre-school approaches, says Oli de Botton of the CfBT Education Trust.

Learning and Development: Flight - Up, up and away!

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

A dual lesson in science and creativity arose from one children's centre's project in making and flying a balloon, as Annette Rawstrone hears.

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: 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: Floating and Sinking

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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

| Nursery World

Children can investigate the behaviour of objects placed in water with these activities from Linda Thornton and Pat Brunton

Analysis: More than soundbites for EYFS reform

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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: 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.