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Outdoors: Key 2 - All aboard!

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Professor Jan White looks at how to ensure that parents are fully on board with your outdoor provision, in the second part of her series

What is an enabling environment – and who is doing the enabling?

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

| Nursery World

Is it time to reassess our view of the enabling environment? Turning the term on its head, an environment that enables is more than the adult and more than the child – it becomes a context for intent, agendas and interests, say Dr Angela Scollan and Professor Federico Farini.

Essential Resources: Pioneers & Influencers – Self-sufficient

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Monday, August 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Timeless practical activities that foster children’s independence are a core part of Maria Montessori’s philosophy, Nicole Weinstein discovers

Enabling Environments: Friendly spaces, Part 2 - Floor plans

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

| Nursery World

Floor play areas are an essential and sometimes overlooked context for learning, says Elizabeth Jarman, in the second of a series looking at the kinds of spaces that nurseries need to provide for children.

Nursery Equipment: Music - Beat it!

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

| Nursery World

The outdoors is ideal for children to make noise and move to music. Annette Rawstrone explains how instruments make a big difference.

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 - Inspirational Spaces: Get inspired

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

| Nursery World

Just what do practitioners enable when they provide the environments that attract children to play? Natalie Canning analyses crucial elements.

Nursery Equipment: Emotions - In the mood

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

| Nursery World

The right mix of quality play resources, combined with sensitive adult support, will open up opportunities for children to explore feelings.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Where are we from?

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Monday, November 13, 2017

| Nursery World

People and communities are the subject of the last part of our series on resourcing for Understanding the World. By Nicole Weinstein

Learning & Development: Literacy - Just imagine

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Monday, October 17, 2016

| Nursery World

How Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, now more than 20 years old, is still encouraging children and families to read. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS best practice - All about… photography

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Monday, July 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Photography is more than a visual art form and can unlock conversations with children, explains Pete Moorhouse, who also offers some practical advice

Enabling Environments: Collections - The world of pattern

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Monday, March 24, 2014

| Nursery World

In the first of a two-part series on pattern, Nicole Weinstein looks at the concept that underpins it all - mathematics -and suggests resources to encourage children to design, build or observe patterns in order to make sense of the world around them.

Enabling Environments: Collections - Glorious mud

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Monday, June 16, 2014

| Nursery World

This natural material opens up opportunities for children to experiment and explore both real and imaginary worlds - and a mud kitchen makes a good central point.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Only natural

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Monday, November 4, 2013

| Nursery World

A woodland wonderland at a nursery in West Lancashire is helping children to develop understanding and empathy for the world around them. Ruth Stokes investigates.

Nursery Equipment: Block Play - Wall to wall

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

| Nursery World

Some settings are making blocks an important part of their provision - and opening up new opportunities for learning and development as a result. Marianne Sargent explains.