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

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

What are fundamental movement skills? By Caroline Vollans

Outdoors: Stem – discover the Sky at Night

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Unleash children’s curiosity about the night sky, with a host of activity and clever resources ideas. By Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson

Maths: Harness the executive function to help children gain a deep understanding of maths

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Executive functions play an important role in early maths, says Rosemary O’Connor, from a University of Oxford team who have developed a programme to embed these crucial mental skills into fun maths activities

Management Queries: How to improve staff spelling and grammar

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Our panel discuss what settings can do to improve the written English of staff in order to ensure communications with parents remain professional. By Gabriella Jozwiak

⭐️STAR PHOTO⭐️ - An Ice Time

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

Children from Kayte’s House in Coggeshall, Essex have been exploring ice, using utensils from the mud kitchen to smash and scoop it.

Alison Clark's slow pedagogy: Being slow with materials

Features

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

In the last of her series, Alison Clark suggests exploring in continuous provision how materials can ‘hold time’

MPs call for Ofsted to end single-word inspection judgements

News

Monday, January 29, 2024

| Nursery World

MPs have called for a review into Ofsted’s single-word inspection judgements for schools, such as 'requires improvement' or 'outstanding', in a wide-ranging report by the Education Select Committee on the role of the inspectorate in schools.

Key findings from Education Select Committee report into Ofsted's work with schools

News

Monday, January 29, 2024

| Nursery World

MPs have concluded their inquiry into Ofsted's work with schools.

Early years practitioners invited to take part in programme to improve children's self-regulation

News

Friday, January 26, 2024

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners are being encouraged to sign up to a new research trial to find out if helping young children manage their emotions can support their early development.

Local authorities concerned there won't be enough places for the expanded offer

News

Thursday, January 25, 2024

| Nursery World

The majority of local authorities do not think they will have enough places to meet demand for the expanded offer, according to new research by Coram Family and Childcare.

Calls to change SEND funding system to increase 'scandalously low' number of early years places

News

Thursday, January 25, 2024

| Nursery World

A charity is calling for immediate action on the current system of funding for children with SEND, who, due to ‘unnecessarily complex application processes’, are being turned away by early years settings.

Tens of thousands register for DfE's early years catch-up training

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Thursday, January 25, 2024

| Nursery World

Tens of thousands of early years professionals have signed up to the DfE’s education recovery training courses, designed to improve children’s outcomes,including those that are disadvantaged.

Attainment gap ‘at risk of widening’ in current policy outlook, experts warn

News

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

| Nursery World

The early years sector is increasingly moving towards ‘childcare at the expense of high-quality education’, the Sutton Trust warns.

Three in every ten children in the UK live in poverty as ‘scale of destitution’ rises fast

News

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

| Nursery World

Six million of the poorest people in the UK would need to double their income to escape poverty, a major report has warned.

Ministers provide 'temporary fix' so parents can get their code for the extended hours

News

Monday, January 22, 2024

| Nursery World

Ministers have actioned a last-minute ‘workaround’ to ensure that thousands of parents of two year-olds can get their codes to take-up a funded place.