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Infant school children are communicating, negotiating, planning and performing in sophisticated ways with their own junkyard orchestra, as Michael Jones reports.

Learning & development: The knight and his lady

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Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The interests of children at one nursery came to life when a special visitor called. Nursery practitioner Lindsey Noble tells the tale.

Learning & Development: Museums - Past performance

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Friday, March 16, 2012

| Nursery World

The EYFS served as a guide for developing museum visits for under-fives visits. Ruth Gillan tells how.

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty

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Friday, March 2, 2012

| Nursery World

The defining elements of active learning, the second characteristic of effective learning and teaching identified in the Early Years Foundation Stage review, are set out by Jan Dubiel, national development manager of training and resource centre Early Excellence.

Learning & Development:: Back to basics

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Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Ideas on how to use bicarbonate of soda and other basic cleaning products in sensory play are now available at www.dri-pak.co.uk/kidsfun.html.

Learning & Development: Creative Play - Making a museum

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Friday, February 17, 2012

| Nursery World

Working in partnership with museum staff to create a Communication Museum has helped children become more confident and competent communicators, as reception class teacher Tessa Fenoughty explains.

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 1 - In the process

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Friday, February 3, 2012

| Nursery World

In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review

Learning & Development: Superhero Play - Super girls and boys

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Friday, January 20, 2012

| Nursery World

What's the difference between a superhero and a fairy godmother? It depends on who you ask. Michael Jones explores how adult attitudes can encourage or stifle children's imaginative play.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Light

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Monday, January 9, 2012

| Nursery World

See how an array of simple resources can combine with curiosity to help children explore the properties of light, with nursery activities used by Angela Chick.

Learning & Development: School Readiness: Part 3 - A better way?

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Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

Contrasts between early years provision in different countries can help us reflect on whether education is for teaching children readiness for life, argue David Whitebread and Sue Bingham.

Learning & Development Science: In the lab

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Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Becoming real-life research scientists for the day sparked children's enthusiasm for enquiring and learning. Lisa Jane Wildey, Early Years Professional and pre-school team leader at University of Sheffield Union of Students' Pre-school, observed the long-lasting effects.

Learning and Development: Poetry - Go with the flow

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Monday, November 14, 2011

| Nursery World

Poetry is for everyone, as leading children's poet Michael Rosen tells Karen Faux, with suggestions for introducing rhyme in an early years setting.

Learning and development: 'it's time to listen to children more'

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Monday, October 31, 2011

| Nursery World

Listening to four- and fourteen-year-olds is shedding light on children's early learning experiences, as Dr Jacqui Cousins explains in this extended version of the article in the latest issue of Nursery World

Learning & Development: ICT - Screen play

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Monday, October 17, 2011

| Nursery World

Have a fresh think about how you can ensure that all the children in your setting enjoy equal access to your ICT equipment and gain from the experience, with advice from Amy Stancer.

EYFS best practice: All about ... Superhero play

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Monday, September 19, 2011

| Nursery World

What is superhero play? Why do children enjoy it? Should adults restrict it? And how can early years practitioners support this form of play? Nicole Weinstein provides some answers

Learning & Development: Bread-making - Flour power

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Monday, August 22, 2011

| Nursery World

A visit from staff at the local Kingsmill bakery helped children at Busy Bears and Busy Bees Children's Day Nurseries in Durham to explore the process of bread-making, as Laura Wayman explains.

Art in the Early Years: Part 7: Textiles

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Monday, July 25, 2011

| Nursery World

Explore the surprisingly wide variety of woven materials and their artistic possibilities, with the Suffolk Early Years and Childcare Service (Suffolk County Council)

Learning and Development: Prediction - Train of thought

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Monday, July 11, 2011

| Nursery World

The concept and practice of predicting teaches children about cause and effect. Early years consultant David Quinn looks at the science. Photographs at Oakey Dokeys pre-school, Essex, by Teri Pengilley.

Learning and Development: International Baccalaureate - Without walls

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Friday, July 1, 2011

| Nursery World

There is much debate about the role of the International Baccalaureate in secondary education, but how does it work at nursery level? Ruth Thomson visited a London school with an inquiry-based, child-led approach

Learning & Development: Photography - Picture this!

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Monday, June 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Children viewed the world from some interesting angles when taking part in a photography project in a local theatre garden. Annette Rawstrone went for a look.

Art in the Early Years: Part 6 -Collage

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Monday, June 27, 2011

| Nursery World

Opening up the creative potential of collage to young children requires knowledge of the basic skills involved and ready access to a wide variety of natural and made materials.

EYFS Best practice: All about ... calculating

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Monday, June 13, 2011

| Nursery World

See what an endless number of activities and experiences you can offer young children to develop their understanding of concepts of calculating with these ideas from Stella Louis. Photographs At Little green man nursery, London, by Justin Thomas

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Learning & Development: Sense of Time - Beneath the waves

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Learning & development: The knight and his lady

Learning & Development: Museums - Past performance

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 2 - Active duty

Learning & Development:: Back to basics

Learning & Development: Creative Play - Making a museum

Learning & Development: How Children Learn: Part 1 - In the process

Learning & Development: Superhero Play - Super girls and boys

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Light

Learning & Development: School Readiness: Part 3 - A better way?

Learning & Development Science: In the lab

Learning and Development: Poetry - Go with the flow

Learning and development: 'it's time to listen to children more'

Learning & Development: ICT - Screen play

EYFS best practice: All about ... Superhero play

Learning & Development: Bread-making - Flour power

Art in the Early Years: Part 7: Textiles

Learning and Development: Prediction - Train of thought

Learning and Development: International Baccalaureate - Without walls

Learning & Development: Photography - Picture this!

Art in the Early Years: Part 6 -Collage

EYFS Best practice: All about ... calculating

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