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Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

Talking Tents are a winner

    News
  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Encouraging a love of language, stories and reading among pre-school children and their families has won a Norwich nursery a National Literacy Trust award.

Time to talk with your chatterboxes

    News
  • Tuesday, December 7, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Nurseries, playgroups and primary schools are being invited to register and get involved in the annual Chatterbox Challenge by I CAN, running early in 2011.

Nursery's film goes to TV

    News
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Children and nursery teachers from the foundation unit of a Nottingham primary school who won a competition to find the most innovative use for video in the classroom have got themselves a slot in a new series shown on Teachers' TV.

Learning & Development: ECAT - Stage struck

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 21, 2010
  • | Nursery World
A partnership between Every Child A Talker and a community theatre company has helped parents and practitioners get more in tune with children's language development, says Sian McDermott, early years consultant teacher for Enfield Council.

More schools get help from reading dogs

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Reading dogs are stretching their influence to schools in Kent with the expansion of a unique project to encourage children who are reluctant to read out loud.

Learning & Development: Language - Sign posting

    Features
  • Tuesday, July 27, 2010
  • | Nursery World
Can signing help hearing children to develop language quickly? Michael Jones reports on an innovative project in Luton, helping children's oral storytelling by teaching them British Sign Language.

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