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A Unique Child: Child Development - Being 'me'

Monday, April 7, 2014

| Nursery World

Self-awareness is not something we are born with, but an understanding that grows over time. Crucially, says Maria Robinson, it relies on a baby's experience of interacting with others

EYFS Best Practice: All about... risk

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Monday, January 13, 2014

| Nursery World

Risk is often associated with danger, but too much safety can create problems of its own. Helen Tovey looks at how to get the balance right.

Positive relationships: Baby room - Holding the baby

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

| Nursery World

Students on placement in early years settings are discouraged from bonding with babies by various factors, as Jackie Musgrave found.

Enabling Environments: Tummy Time - Floor show

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Monday, September 7, 2015

| Nursery World

The benefits of 'tummy time' are well documented, but many babies spend too little time playing in this way. Andrea Vaughan explains how her setting has been working to increase parent awareness.

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - My Mistake

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Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

When learning a language, children often say things that don’t sound quite right. In the last article in this series, Professor Julian Pine explains why ‘clever mistakes’ are often a sign of progress

Positive Relationships: Parents - Gently does it

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Monday, May 2, 2016

| Nursery World

‘Tiger Mums’ may be too pushy, but the intention for a child to do well is a good one, says Caroline Vollans

Working Mum - ‘I’m a big girl now!’

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Monday, January 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Moving up to the pre-school room was an exciting moment and has been (mostly) beneficial for Working Mum’s three-year-old

Enabling Environments: Uganda - Model work

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Monday, December 14, 2015

| Nursery World

Di Cosgrove, co-founder of the Redearth Education charity in rural Uganda, tells Nicole Weinstein how its Redearth Model Nursery aims to transform local childcare and education practice

STARTING POINTS: Part 3 - Adriana, 14 months

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Monday, March 7, 2016

| Nursery World

Meeting the emotional and learning needs of the unique child

A Unique Child: Messy play - Practice in Pictures - Mud, mud

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

The sensory experience of messy play has far-reaching benefits for brain development, creativity and risk-taking, says Anne O'Connor

Learning & Development: Communication: Part 1 - Time to talk

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

A new series on communication skills and good early years practice is launched by Helen Moylett.

Positive Relationships: Working With Parents - On message

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Monday, January 23, 2017

| Nursery World

It’s important to get parents to support their children’s schematic behaviour, explains Helen Petrie

Learning & Development: Childhood - Listen up!

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Monday, October 31, 2011

| Nursery World

The feelings of children about their early years learning experiences have been captured in new research by Jacqui Cousins.

A guide to the revised EYFS: Part 4 - Planning

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Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Under the revised EYFS, planning for children's needs undergoes only subtle changes arising from the differences between prime and specific areas, as Ann Langston, director of Early Years Matters consultancy, explains

Nursery Equipment: Private spaces - A place of their own

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

Enclosed spaces can foster friendship and heighten young children's concentration and involvement in their play, says Annette Rawstrone.

A Unique Child: Adoption - Finding a home

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

| Nursery World

The adopting process should be getting easier, but some barriers are hard to shift, writes Laura Marcus.

Learning & Development: ICT - Take notes

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Friday, March 22, 2013

| Nursery World

Apps are becoming the latest must-have in helping practitioners with observation, assessment and planning, says Mary Evans.

Learning & Development: Boxes - It's not a box!

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

| Nursery World

When is a box not a box? When it's a bus, a train, a boat or a bed. Michael Jones describes one innovative nursery project using both child-initiated and adult-led activities.

Early Years Pioneers: Lilian Katz

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

| Nursery World

The distinction between children's academic and intellectual growth is among Lilian Katz's important messages, writes Sylvia Chard

EYFS Best Practice: All about ... supporting babies' emotional development

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Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

Ensuring that babies mature in a positive manner is an important but challenging task, says Bernadette Duffy

A Unique Child: Health - A Doctor's Diary ... a Limp

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Recently, during a busy Monday clinic, a mother brought her son in to see me. He had recently suffered a cold and for the last 24 hours had been more clingy and been limping on his left leg.

Early Years Pioneers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

| Nursery World

Although not a childcare expert, the French philosopher Rousseau has had a far-reaching influence on our ideas about childhood, says Professor J Eric Wilkinson

A Unique Child - A doctor's diary ... Down's syndrome.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

"I'm a teacher and have a child with Down's syndrome in my class. I really have no idea what that means or what the implications are."

Sensory Processing: Part 2 - Vestibular system

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Monday, February 18, 2019

| Nursery World

Development of the vestibular sense – and addressing over- and under-sensitivity – is explored by Anne O’Connor and Dr Kath Dickinson in part two of this new series

Speech - In the clear

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Monday, August 19, 2019

| Nursery World

What are the effects of dummy use on young children’s speech and language development? Radhika Kovendrakumar gives advice, based on research she did for her pre-school