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‘Playing today to prepare for tomorrow’

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, April 6, 2022
    • | Nursery World
Beatrice Merrick explains the thinking behind the recent Birth to 5 Matters Spring Festival which focused on key areas of practice including diversity and inclusion, sustainability, children’s rights and STEAM learning skills.

Nursery Equipment: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, December 3, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The Early Years Foundation Stage was intended to represent continuity in early years practice, sharing, as it does, the same principles as its predecessors, the Foundation Stage and Birth to Three Matters framework.

Assessment of PD: something isn't adding up

    Opinion
  • Thursday, November 13, 2014
    • | Nursery World
How can 86 per cent of children achieve an ‘expected’ level for PD in the EYFS Profile when 90 per cent have woeful levels of physical activity, asks Dr Lala Manners, director, Active Matters

Let's not lose our European links

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 11, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The vote to leave the European Union jarred with both my personal and professional beliefs about the importance to early years of Britain being part of Europe, writes Verity Campbell-Barr.

A world of difference in India

    Opinion
  • Monday, October 23, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Nursery World's Ruth Thomson reports from our trip to see early years education in India, from nurseries to Diwali celebrations

To the Point - Squashing them in

    Opinion
  • Friday, December 7, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Policymakers may need reminding that actions speak louder than words. The focus of the foundation years is on child development, proclaimed the Government in its document, 'Supporting Families in the Foundation Years'.

Feel the warm embrace of hygge

    Opinion
  • Friday, November 26, 2021
    • | Nursery World
The Danish concept of hygge encompasses a sense of wellbeing and awareness based on the simple things in life. Author Kimberly Smith explains how she discovered its value and translated it into early years practice.

Planning for peace

    Opinion
  • Monday, August 25, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners must make peace a priority, argues Professor Cathy Nutbrown

All in all ... the pupil premium

    Opinion
  • Friday, July 26, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Dr Katherine Runswick-Cole is a senior research fellow in disability studies and psychology, at the Research Institute for Health and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University.

The dangerous schoolification agenda

    Opinion
  • Thursday, December 7, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Ofsted report Bold Beginnings reveals an ignorance of how children learn and marks another step towards the schoolification of Reception Year (YR), says early years consultant Tamsin Grimmer

EYFS guidance - Better together

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, November 24, 2020
    • | Nursery World
The revised Development Matters has strengths and weaknesses, and continued discussion is needed, write Prof Kathy Sylva, Prof Iram Siraj and Dr Sandra Mathers

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