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Research Nurseries: On a learning curve

    Features
  • Wednesday, August 2, 2023
    • | Nursery World
In the last of the series, researcher Gemma Goldenberg discusses what research- informed practice means to different settings and unpicks some of the differing views about what works

With feeling

    Features
  • Monday, October 29, 2018
    • | Nursery World
What is empathy and its role in learning? An edited extract from Helen Garnett’s book on the subject, which won a Nursery World award this year, reveals all

Training Today: Reflective practice - See for yourself

    Features
  • Monday, July 23, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Reflective practice is embedded in early years provision, but is not always easy to achieve. Educational psychologist Anita Soni describes a project in Birmingham that uses video to help practitioners find and reinforce the positives in their everyday work

Nursery Management: Poverty - Destined for failure?

    Features
  • Monday, September 21, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners know that part of their job is reducing the disadvantage gap. But what do they really think of poor children? Dr Donald Simpson, who has led a two-year study into practitioners'perceptions of poverty, reports.

Baby rooms - Still room for improvement?

    Features
  • Monday, June 29, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Good practice begins with babies, but nurseries have historically focused more on older children. Three years on from the Baby Room Project, Hannah Crown asks if anything has changed.

EYP Diary - Moving on in 2013

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 15, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Nikki Fairchild provides the update on candidate progress at Chichester University and says that the level of enquiries bodes well for recruitment this September

Talking about supervision: embedding appraisals

    Features
  • Thursday, November 29, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Effective supervision is essential under the EYFS and there is plenty of theory to guide practitioners. But how easy is to put theory into practice? In a new online series, Julie Coakley, manager at LEYF's Colville Nursery in west London, provides a personal account of her own learning journey.

QuILT: Covering every aspect of quality

    Features
  • Monday, July 9, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Judith Twani, independent early years consultant, trainer and early education improvement officer for Thurrock Council, explains how a modular quality assurance and improvement scheme is proving both versatile and enduring for a range of settings

Leadership - supporting staff to see the whole child

    Features
  • Friday, May 11, 2012
    • | Nursery World
While observation forms an important part of both planning and assessment at Southwark Primary School in Nottingham, nursery leader Leisa Towle recently identified staff who needed more support to undertake it effectively. She explains how this involved helping them to understand what to observe, when and how.

Leadership - Men love reading too!

    Features
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Information gained from carrying out home visits showed that a significant number of children at Southwark Primary School Nursery in Nottingham are from one-parent families and some do not have a male role model at home or in their lives. With this in mind, nursery leader Pip Otter found a way to bring men into the nursery to benefit the children's learning.

Leadership - team learns a lot from looking at levels of children's involvement

    Features
  • Monday, October 3, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Southwark Primary School in Nottingham City has kicked off the new term with training for the EYFS and Year 1 staff about Ferre Laevers scales of involvement and well-being. Believing that levels of children's well-being are already high, nursery leader Pip Otter has decided to focus on levels of involvement during child-initiated play.

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