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New tool to boost early years language

    News
  • Thursday, September 24, 2015
    • | Nursery World
A new improvement tool to help staff in early years settings foster children’s language, literacy and communication is being developed.

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

    News
  • Tuesday, May 8, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Head teachers have threatened to put an end to the phonics reading check for all six-year-olds, if it is seen to be politically motivated and used as a weapon to attack teachers.

Experts demand end to phonics test plans

    News
  • Tuesday, February 15, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A group of early years experts, including academics and practitioners, have launched a petition calling on the Government to abandon plans to introduce a phonics-based reading test for all six-year-olds.

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.

Ofsted backs phonics teaching plan

    News
  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Phonics is an 'indispensable tool' that should be used to teach children how to read by age six, according to a new report by Ofsted.

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