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A Unique Child: Quiet Children - Time to chat

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

| Nursery World

Confidence may follow from practitioners giving special attention to the children in a setting who rarely speak up for themselves. Michael Jones explains one approach.

A unique child: Music therapy - Scaling up

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

| Nursery World

A study has measured the effects of music therapy on children's emotional well-being, reports Karen Faux.

A Unique Child: Messy play - Practice in Pictures - Mud, mud

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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

| Nursery World

The sensory experience of messy play has far-reaching benefits for brain development, creativity and risk-taking, says Anne O'Connor

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Special friends

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Monday, October 20, 2014

| Nursery World

Dolls with their own personas and life stories are being used by some practitioners to help raise issues of equality and encourage children to think critically. Vicky Hutchin explains.

EYFS Best Practice: Observation part 1 – challenging assumptions

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Tuesday, January 3, 2023

| Nursery World

In this first of a four part series, Dr Sue Allingham looks at how effective and informed observation can support the emotional and physical wellbeing of young children

A Unique Child: Child Development - First love

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Friday, April 5, 2013

| Nursery World

The economic incentives offered to encourage mothers to return to work ignore the parent's crucial role in the early years, Sally Goddard Blythe believes

A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition - On the MEND

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Monday, July 10, 2017

| Nursery World

Community intervention programme MEND is helping families to be more positive about healthy eating and exercise. Caroline Vollans sees the programme in action in Westminster

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - separation

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Monday, November 28, 2011

| Nursery World

Practitioners should acknowledge the feelings that separation can trigger in a young child, a parent and themselves, says Anne O'Connor.

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

A simple interaction shows symbolic play and social interaction between toddlers, says Anne O'Connor.

A Unique Child: Dental Health - Brush up!

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

| Nursery World

Child dental care should begin with the first tooth and parties are a fun way to encourage it, says Viv Hampshire.

A unique child: Disability Dolls - Face to face

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

| Nursery World

Well-meaning early years settings may provide dolls like disabled children for the sake of inclusive practice, but it could end up doing more harm than good, as Mary Evans hears from the experts.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Social relationships

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

| Nursery World

Adults' facial expressions have a strong impact on very young children learning about social relationships. Anne O'Connor explains social referencing and why early years workers need to understand it.

A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth

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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

In its last few weeks in the womb a baby is already busy learning, says Annette Karmiloff-Smith, in the first of a new series on the developing brain.

A Unique Child: The developing brain, Part 3 - Face to face

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

| Nursery World

The baby's discovery of the social world is described by Annette Karmiloff-Smith.

A unique child: Resilience: Staying strong

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners can do much to help children living amid domestic violence to develop resilience and see that there are other ways for people to relate to each other, writes Karen Stephens.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Roots of Empathy

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

| Nursery World

Young children are learning empathy by caring for even younger babies. Mary Evans finds out how.

A Unique Child: Child Development - Face to face

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Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

In this extract from her new Practical EYFS Handbook, Penny Tassoni outlines ways of building confidence and self-awareness in children aged 0-11 months.

Two-year-olds: Relationships - Safe and secure

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Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Settling in and building relationships are key challenges for settings involved in the two-year-old programme, and nurseries can find ways to smooth the process, says Penny Tassoni.

Unique Child: Practice in pictures - When friends fall out

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

While children will squabble from time to time, they are usually practising negotiating techniques. The skill for adults is to know when to step in or step back and let them get on with it, explains Anne O'Connor.

A Unique Child Inclusion: Blast off!

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

| Nursery World

A unique structured therapy programme is changing the prospects of nursery children with speech and language delay. Ruth Thomson reports.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - On target

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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Burnwood Nursery School has cut dramatically its number of children on the special needs register. Head teacher Juliet Levingstone explains how, in the second of a series on Stoke-on-Trent's nursery schools.

A Unique Child: Nutrition - Nursery food report exposes lack of standards

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

| Nursery World

Children in nurseries are being served less healthy food than those in schools, as an extensive new report shows. Simon Vevers reports.

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures -Adult-Child Interactions

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Monday, June 13, 2011

| Nursery World

The importance of reciprocal expressions between a baby and an adult carer, and finding opportunities that enable it, are explored by Anne O'Connor.

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Young boys seem to have a natural urge to wrestle with each other, so what stance should childcarers take? asks Annette Rawstrone.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Practice in pictures - Tuning in

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

| Nursery World

Young children with developmental delay will benefit from the care of a practitioner who responds to them as they are now, says Anne O'Connor.

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A Unique Child: Quiet Children - Time to chat

A unique child: Music therapy - Scaling up

A Unique Child: Messy play - Practice in Pictures - Mud, mud

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Special friends

EYFS Best Practice: Observation part 1 – challenging assumptions

A Unique Child: Child Development - First love

A Unique Child: Health & Nutrition - On the MEND

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - separation

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in pictures - Play mates

A Unique Child: Dental Health - Brush up!

A unique child: Disability Dolls - Face to face

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures - Social relationships

A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth

A Unique Child: The developing brain, Part 3 - Face to face

A unique child: Resilience: Staying strong

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Roots of Empathy

A Unique Child: Child Development - Face to face

Two-year-olds: Relationships - Safe and secure

Unique Child: Practice in pictures - When friends fall out

A Unique Child Inclusion: Blast off!

A Unique Child: Inclusion - On target

A Unique Child: Nutrition - Nursery food report exposes lack of standards

A Unique Child: Practice in pictures -Adult-Child Interactions

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Practice in pictures - Tuning in

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