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The Big Picture - International tales

News

Monday, May 14, 2018

A new folktale series will introduce young children to stories from around the world.

Children spend 100 million minutes reading in a month

News

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Children and young people across the UK have read for more than a 100,000,000 minutes as part of a month-long reading competition.

Learning & Development: Physical Development - All fine by us!

Features

Monday, October 6, 2014

Can daily sessions of focused physical activities help children develop the gross and fine motor skills they need to become confident writers? Helen Chilton reports on her school's progress.

Learning & Development, Communication: Part 2 - Friendly places

Features

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The whole learning environment in which young children spend their time needs to offer quality language provision, says Helen Moylett.

Learning & Development: Small-world play - It's fantastic!

Features

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Play with small, fantasy figurines is an ideal way to address language impoverishment and help to meet the aims of the 'Every Child a Talker' project, says Michael Jones.

Positive Relationships: Fathers - Dad's day

Features

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Early years and family events to highlight the role of fathers could be the perfect way to celebrate Father's Day, says Viv Hampshire.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pirates!

Features

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Set sail for adventure, imagination and creative activities across all areas of the curriculum with a topic on these popular characters, outlined by Helen Bromley.

Learning & Development: Rhymes for birth to three - Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Teddy bear, teddy bear, By Judith Stevens

Learning & Development: Principles and Practice - From the start

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

The principles that should underpin putting the Early Years Foundation Stage into practice are set out by Julie Fisher in this excerpt from the revised edition of Starting from the Child.

Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

Features

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Provision to enable and challenge the youngest children to direct their own learning is carefully thought out at a centre visited by Nicole Weinstein.

Enabling Environments: All about ... Sensory rooms

Features

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

It doesn't require a large budget, just plenty of imagination and some careful forethought about how it's going to be used, to kit out your setting with a sensory room, as Annette Rawstrone explains.

Enabling environments: Let's explore ... Cats and dogs

Features

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Help young children explore their love for - or fear of - the most popular family pets with activities in every area of the early years setting, suggested by Judith Stevens.

Learning & Development: Thinking - Part 4: Big ideas

Features

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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

Features

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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

Learning & Development Heuristic Play: Outdoor treasures

Features

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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.

Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Babies and books

Features

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Sharing a book creates a partnership between a young child and their carer that will promote their attention, social awareness and a habit of reading for pleasure. Anne O'Connor shows why. Photographs courtesy of Siren Films.

Learning & Development: Rhymes for birth to three - Garden snail gets ticklish!

Features

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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

Features

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pattern

Features

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Sometimes overlooked or left to art activities, pattern is fundamental to children's understanding of mathematics, says Judith Stevens.

Learning and Development: To the touch

Features

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

As part of regular provision, children in the Foundation Stage Unit at Chilton Primary School have free access to a range of malleable materials.

Learning & Development: Nature's way

Features

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Playing with sounds promotes young children's acquisition of language, says Steve Grocott

Enabling environments: Around the Nursery - Water Area - Splash out

Features

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Make the most of water play by offering the best experiences and stocking the essential resources, as suggested by Jane Drake

Unique child: Practice in pictures - Movement play

Features

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Movement play is vital to young children's cognitive development as well as physical skills, says Anne O'Connor

Learning & Development: Reading - Spread the word

Features

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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.