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Editor's view - Wales the brave

Monday, June 1, 2015

| Nursery World

The Welsh Government deserves plaudits for its bravery in implementing the play-based Foundation Phase for threeto seven-year-olds - radical indeed compared to the way that things are progressing in England.

Exclusive: Minibeasts and the Big Bad Wolf

Opinion

Monday, July 13, 2015

| Nursery World

As Ofsted publishes its second Early Years Annual Report, Nick Hudson looks at how early years settings need to balance teaching and play in a child’s early years

EYFS REVIEW: Second consultation deadline is nearing

News

Monday, January 9, 2012

| Nursery World

The early years sector has only until 19 January to respond to the Department for Education's second consultation on proposed changes to some of the learning and development requirements in the EYFS.

Enabling Environments: National Teaching Schools - Life lessons

Features

Monday, April 4, 2016

| Nursery World

Mills Hill in Oldham, one of the first schools to be made a National Teaching School, focuses on co-operative learning from the Foundation Stage onwards, finds Marianne Sargent

Funny books awards

News

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates, (pictured), is the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010 for books for children from birth to six.

Dance and exercise - Wake-up call

Features

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

| Nursery World

Children call the tune in daily music and exercise workouts that offer lots of added learning and development, says Karen Faux.

Dora to help children explore learning

News

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

| Nursery World

Free curriculum-linked activity resources and the opportunity to apply for a grant of up to 20,000 are being offered to nurseries and pre-schools by the children's television channel Nick Jr.

Nursery Management: EYFS abroad - Early years export

Features

Monday, September 22, 2014

| Nursery World

The ever-evolving EYFS may have its challenges for childcare practitioners, but its excellent reputation is a big selling point for international nurseries across the world, says Gabriella Jozwiak

EYFS Best Practice in Schools: Foundation Stage Units - All in one

Features

Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Foundation Stage Units are in the spotlight amid Government plans to greater align EYFS and Key Stage 1 goals. Anne O’Connor outlines how they work and examines their benefits and challenges

Nurseries asked to gear up dads for Fathers' Story Week

News

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

| Nursery World

Fathers should participate more in their children's learning, says the Fatherhood Institute, as the think-tank urges schools, nurseries and other family learning settings to sign up for Fathers' Story Week 2012.

Early Years Professionals improve practice for pre-school children

News

Thursday, July 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Early years settings that employ an Early Years Professional make 'significant improvements' in the quality of learning for children from two-and-a-half to five, a four-year study has concluded.

The ''Tesco-isation'' of England's Early Years: The Choices before Us

Opinion

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

| Nursery World

Those who lived through the bleak days of the Woodhead/Blunkett Education regime of the late 1990s scarcely imagined that early-years policy-making could be any more Dark-Aged, but in this respect the current Wilshaw/Gove regime is breaking all previous records.

Montessori closes attainment gap for pre-school children

News

Monday, November 27, 2017

| Nursery World

An American study in academic journal Frontiers in Psychology has found that Montessori early years settings can improve outcomes for disadvantaged children.

Enabling Environments: Uganda - Model work

Features

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

Enabling Environments: National Teaching Schools - Flying high

Features

Monday, February 8, 2016

| Nursery World

Developing the whole child by encouraging independence and focusing on well-being, via learning that is interesting and relevant, has been praised at an NTS in Bedfordshire. By Marianne Sargent

Art in the Early Years: Part 1 - Introduction

Features

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

| Nursery World

The basis for good early years practice in helping children develop their creativity is adults who know how to encourage them and model activity but not control the creative process.

A question of logic

Opinion

Monday, July 27, 2015

| Nursery World

Sue Cowley asks what summer-born children need

Department for Education clarifies position on deferring school entry for four-year-olds

News

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

| Nursery World

The DfE has confirmed that parents who defer their four-year-old's school place this September and keep their child at their early years setting will continue to be offered the 15-hour free entitlement.