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Early formal schooling 'damages development'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Formal education for four- and-five-year-olds may seem to show promising results when tested early but proves damaging to children's educational development in the long term, says an international early years expert.

Juggling act wins student top prize

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Jamie-Lee Coldham is the first part-time circus student, as well as the first male, to win the Heinemann and Nursery World Childcare Student of the Year Award. With a record number of entries, the judges deliberated over four finalists and finally chose Jamie-Lee, who turns 17 next month and is studying for a CACHE Diploma in Child Care and Education (DCE) at Blackpool and Flyde College.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - In context

    Features
  • Monday, May 5, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Early years landscape designer Julie Mountain continues her exploration of an innovative Canadian approach to early childhood landscape design - the 7Cs - by looking at context and connectivity.

Under-fives use internet half an hour a day

    News
  • Tuesday, March 8, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Almost three-quarters of children under five regularly use the internet, spending an average of 30 minutes online every day, research by Plymouth council has found.

Right for the job

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Early years managers can screen out unsuitable candidates with the help of Government guidelines summarised by legal expert Christine Betts Caring, competent and trustworthy staff are key to the success of any early years setting. Hiring incompetent or careless people can lead to tragic outcomes for vulnerable babies and small children. People without the necessary patience, empathy and understanding of child development could cause lasting damage. More rarely, there are people who actively seek work with children in order to abuse them.

To the point - Let's report ourselves

    Features
  • Tuesday, March 8, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The axes are beginning to fall and slowly the extent of the cuts to services for children are being made known across the country. We are finally beginning to get a sense of what importance this Government places on early years, and perhaps we are beginning to realise the extent of our own foolishness in not being better prepared to strengthen the argument for high quality early years care and education.

Further reading

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
* Lindon, J (2001) Understanding children's play, Nelson Thornes * Harding, J and Meldon-Smith, L (2000) Helping young children to develop, Hodder and Stoughton

SEN reforms target the under-threes

    News
  • Tuesday, March 15, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Staff in early years settings are to work with health visitors to assess children's development before the age of three, under Government plans to identify children with special educational needs and support them as early as possible.

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