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All about… clay

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

| Nursery World

What are the particular benefits of providing clay as a resource, and how are some settings introducing clay-making skills? Annette Rawstrone finds out

All about… small spaces

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

| Nursery World

What is it that makes enclosed spaces so appealing to many children, and how can early years settings support them in this? Annette Rawstrone reports

Alison Clark's Slow Pedagogy: How to be 'slow' outdoors

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

| Nursery World

What is ‘slow pedagogy’ and what does it look like for children and practitioners when taken outdoors, asks Alison Clark

Curriculum: Understanding what is 'crucial'

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Monday, July 3, 2023

| Nursery World

What are the key features of a good early years curriculum? By Verity Campbell-Barr, Katherine Evans, Jan Georgeson and Sasha Tregenza

EYFS Best Practice: All about … beach schools

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

| Nursery World

Beach School sessions allow for the same ‘awe and wonder’ for children and exploration experience as in Forest School– but with added drama. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements - D is for Display

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

| Nursery World

Displays can be used to support children's learning and development if they are carefully thought out, purposeful and accessible, says Amy Jackson

EYFS Activities: Music – get moving to rhyme

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Music, movement and rhyme go together like roast carrots and thyme, say Boogie Mites’ Sue Newman, and Michael Rosen

EYFS Activities – We’ve explored… rights and refugees

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

A project on rights – prompted by children showing nurturing skills in the setting – ended in them becoming fully engaged with the plight of refugees. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of enhancements - B is for books

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Amy Jackson continues her tour of the alphabet of enhancements to continuous provision, looking at inventive ways to use books to deepen learning

We’ve explored… dragon school

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

| Nursery World

A series of events culminating in a day at ‘dragon school’ were experienced by the children at one primary school in South East London. By Annette Rawstrone

EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… castles

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

| Nursery World

Children showed improved attention to detail, perceptiveness and confidence after a project which peaked with a visit to a castle. Annette Rawstrone reports

Best practice: shaping a curriculum – Just imagine

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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

| Nursery World

At Horsforth Newlaithes Primary School, assistant head teacher Elizabeth Powell describes how she has embraced the freedoms of the new EYFS to develop a curriculum that fosters children’s passion to learn and know more

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Hairy Maclary’s Rumpus at the Vet

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Monday, February 17, 2020

| Nursery World

Hairy Maclary is the star of a series of rhyming books about a shaggy Scottish terrier. In this book, he is at the vet’s surgery, where the busy waiting room is full of different animals – dogs, kittens, mice and a cockatoo called Cassie.

Picturebooks, Part 1 - Not a word!

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Monday, January 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Can ‘silent’ picturebooks speak a thousand words, asks Andy McCormack

EYFS consultation - Solving the EYFS puzzle

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Monday, November 25, 2019

| Nursery World

With many believing the EYFS does not need a wholesale review, and the pilot receiving a mixed response, Annette Rawstrone unpicks where the main battlegrounds lie

EYFS best practice: All about… Steiner Waldorf education

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Monday, July 22, 2019

| Nursery World

The history of the influential early years education movement and how it is being put into practice today. By Janni Nicol

Children’s Laureate - It’s magic

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Friday, July 19, 2019

| Nursery World

New children’s laureate Cressida Cowell has unveiled her ‘to-do list’ while in the role. Meredith Jones Russell reports

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Dear Zoo

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Monday, June 24, 2019

| Nursery World

by Rod Campbell (Macmillan edition 2019)

Creating A Library - Shelf life

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Monday, May 13, 2019

| Nursery World

How – and why – one setting created a library for two-year-olds and their parents. By Amina Khan, early childhood educator at Everton Nursery School and Family Centre in Liverpool

Ofsted: Cultural Capital - A capital idea?

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Monday, April 29, 2019

| Nursery World

Reference to ‘cultural capital’ in the draft Education Inspection Framework has sparked a number of concerns in the early years sector, finds consultant and author Helen Moylett