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Children share reading tips for summer

    News
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Pre-school and primary children are invited to spend their summer holidays lost in books and share their favourites as part of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Report highlights barriers to outdoor learning

    News
  • Monday, July 2, 2012
    • | Nursery World
A lack of understanding among early years practitioners and teachers, along with a shortage of funding, are preventing children from learning about and taking responsibility for the environment, finds a new study.

Show you love outdoor play

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A campaign highlighting the importance of outdoor play in the community has been launched by a group of more than 30 authors, charities and explorers.

Lego Foundation's £4m grant for play research

    News
  • Thursday, December 3, 2015
    • | Nursery World
A new research centre dedicated to the role of play in the early years is being established at Cambridge University, thanks to a grant from the Lego Foundation, the toymaker’s charitable arm.

'Play and joy' in the snow

    News
  • Monday, March 5, 2018
    • | Nursery World
A strong emphasis on the outdoors and a later start to formal learning are key in Scandinavia, Catherine Gaunt discovered on Nursery World’s study tour to Finland and Sweden last month

Ofsted calls for early years experts

    News
  • Thursday, August 30, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted is calling for academics, researchers and practitioners to apply to take part in a new early years forum to debate early years teaching and practice.

Practitioners need help with nature

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Teachers and early years practitioners need sustained training programmes to understand the importance of children engaging with the natural world, according to school grounds charity Learning through Landscapes.

Phonics check branded 'a waste of money'

    News
  • Tuesday, May 21, 2013
    • | Nursery World
The largest teaching union has slammed the phonics reading check for six-year-olds as a 'waste of money', after Government research found that the majority of teachers found it had 'little or no impact' on children's reading and writing.

Providers to lead speech skills campaign

    News
  • Tuesday, March 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children's communications skills will be the focus of a 'National Year' campaign in 2011 spearheaded by the Communication Trust, a 38-strong consortium of private and voluntary sector providers, set up by Afasic, BT Better World Campaign, the Council for Disabled Children and I CAN.

Flying Start is found to make advances for under-threes

    News
  • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A programme that provides support services for under-threes and free childcare for two-year-olds in Wales is having a positive impact on their emotional and social development, an interim evaluation has found.

Big picture: Scandi mania

    News
  • Sunday, February 18, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Childminder Hannah Rosalie hit the headlines this month for her ‘Scandi’ approach, with children having naps outside.

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