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Fundamental movement skills: What are they and how can they be supported?

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

What are fundamental movement skills? By Caroline Vollans

Health & Wellbeing: Cost-of-living crisis drives passion for 'good food'

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

| Nursery World

One nursery has replaced processed foods with nutritious and cheap alternativesto create restaurant-quality meals, while getting children into the kitchen to take part. By Annette Rawstrone

Health & Wellbeing : Working with parents to support healthy eating

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

| Nursery World

Amid the cost-of-living crisis, one award-winning setting is encouraging children to eat healthily both on-site and when they go home, finds Meredith Jones Russell

EYFS activities - Education for Sustainability: Go with the flow

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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

| Nursery World

This month, Dr Diane Boyd looks at water and sanitation, including how to make links with a setting in Kenya to show how access can be very different for some children

A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition - On the MEND

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Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

Community intervention programme MEND is helping families to be more positive about healthy eating and exercise. Caroline Vollans sees the programme in action in Westminster

Grow Your Own - A rare treat

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Monday, December 12, 2016

| Nursery World

The weather may be getting colder and wetter, but the December garden has some surprises

A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition: Grow Your Own - Hard to keep up

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Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

Despite a bumper harvest, now is not the time to rest on your laurels in the garden

Learning & Development: Communication & Language - Mark my words

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Monday, May 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Delay in language development can negatively impact emotional well-being and relationship-building. Jo Parkes discovers how one nursery school is helping children to overcome it

Learning & Development: Movement - Body language

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Monday, May 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Anne O’Connor explores the link between movement and well-being

Physical Development: Hang on

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Monday, July 14, 2014

| Nursery World

Have you ever asked young children what they think about physical development? Dr Lala Manners did - with some interesting results.

Positive Relationships: Learning together: cookery classes

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Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Kitchen sessions in partnership with a local school have helped to support healthy living, says the children centre teacher team from the Birth to Five Service, Lincolnshire County Council.

Enabling Environments: Transitions - Grate idea!

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Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

One nursery is replicating the primary school lunch experience to help children adjust more easily to the change. Nicole Weinstein explains.

Enabling Environments: Wild Food - Little weeds!

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

| Nursery World

Never mind if the plant is a weed, it's wild, free, cookable and edible, as children and their families found out with Viv Hampshire.

'Teach first aid to early years children'

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Pre-school children are capable of learning and performing basic first aid in an emergency situation, according to a new study.

Enabling Environments: Composting - Wasting time

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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

| Nursery World

Children learned from a TV gardener about a vital stage in plant life and an environmentally useful practice when growing their own food. Annette Rawstrone hears all about it.

Learning & Development: Baking - Aprons on!

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Rewards across all areas of learning will be the result when you get young children together in a baking activity, says Judit Horvath.

Settings share green ideas

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

A new book by the Pre-School Learning Alliance aims to make it easier for nurseries and early years settings to go green and foster an understanding of environmental awareness and climate change.

Learning & Development: Cooking - The perfect recipe

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

| Nursery World

The learning potential for children preparing food as well as eating it is explored by Judith Napier

Enabling Environments: All about ... Growing your own vegetables

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

| Nursery World

There's a lot to learn, and enjoy, from growing vegetables at any early years setting, and there's always a space for it, as Mary Whiting explain.

Learning & Development: Movement sessions: Part 6 - Wave energy

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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Try using resources as suggested by Helen Bilton photo at coombes school, Reading, by Teri Pengilley

Learning and Development: Jack and the beanstalk activity - Full of beans

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

| Nursery World

Kate Hart Dyke used a favourite story to take her children on a nutritious learning journey.

Learning & Development: Movement sessions: Part 5 - Song time

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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Organising children to sing songs along to actions or stories is the focus of another movement session by Helen Bilton.

A unique child: Sleep - Rest assured

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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All early years settings need to do it, but how carefully is their practice considered and organised? Liz Dolan looks at helping children sleep.

Learning & Development: Cooking - Stirring stuff

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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Older people added a special ingredient to a nursery cookery project described by Veronica Broyd, headteacher at Kendal Nursery School in Cumbria.

Enabling Environments: All about ... Creating a wildlife area

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

The best way to get children to think about our disappearing wildlife is to have them take an active part in its resurrection - and it's really simple to do, says Mary Whiting.