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Friday, June 2, 2023

| Nursery World

After reading a story about a green-fingered young gardener, nursery school children were inspired to design a plot of their own. By Annette Rawstrone

Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds

News

Thursday, April 29, 2021

| Nursery World

Reception class children are struggling with language and communication and personal, social and emotional development, concerned teachers have told researchers looking into the impact of Covid-19 disruption on primary school starters.

Parents find reading together helps children talk about their worries

News

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

| Nursery World

More than 700,000 Reception children will receive a free book this week, as a study finds reading helps children to open up about their feelings.

EYFS best practice - All about… handwriting

Features

Monday, October 1, 2018

| Nursery World

What are the expectations of young children’s ability to write by hand and how is this changing in the context of an increasingly digital world, asks Annette Rawstrone

Interview - Sir Kevan Collins

Other

Monday, May 14, 2018

| Nursery World

Chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation

DfE launches schemes to support early language development

News

Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched two schemes to help close the ‘word gap' that exists between disadvantaged children and their peers at the age of five.

Children spend 100 million minutes reading in a month

News

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

| Nursery World

Children and young people across the UK have read for more than a 100,000,000 minutes as part of a month-long reading competition.

Popular baby book scheme tops 1,000

News

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

| Nursery World

More than a thousand babies in Bradford are being given a free book every month as part of a literacy skills development programme.

Daddy Pig promotes family reading for BookTrust

News

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

| Nursery World

Peppa Pig’s Daddy Pig has been unveiled as Ambassador for BookTrust, the UK’s largest reading charity.

New measurement tracking early literacy progress to launch

News

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

| Nursery World

A campaign group concerned with early language is to create a new national measurement of children’s reading.

Dolly Parton gives books to 5,000 more London children

News

Thursday, February 11, 2016

| Nursery World

Every child born in Southwark in 2016 will be eligible to receive a free book each month until their fifth birthday, thanks to country singer Dolly Parton.

Save the Children highlights early language gap

News

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

| Nursery World

The charity is calling for more investment in the early years to prevent children, particularly those that are disadvantaged, falling behind in language development.

New children's laureate named

News

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

| Nursery World

Illustrator and writer Chris Riddell was named the ninth Waterstones Children’s Laureate at a ceremony in London on Tuesday.

Dyslexia 'not caused by poor eyesight'

News

Friday, June 5, 2015

| Nursery World

Experts have cast doubt on the popular belief that dyslexia is a visual disorder, as a new large-scale study suggests dyslexia is not linked to eyesight problems.

Nurseries urged to spend a day on the spoken word

News

Thursday, February 26, 2015

| Nursery World

Speech and language charities call for early years settings and schools to dedicate a whole day to spoken language.

Reading charity gives away books at food banks this Christmas

News

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

| Nursery World

Free books for children and adults are to be handed out at food banks during the festive period, thanks to a partnership between Booktrust and The Trussell Trust food bank network.

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

News

Thursday, November 20, 2014

| Nursery World

A more detailed breakdown of the EYFS Profile statistics, published today, shows that the gap has widened between children with special educational needs and their peers.

Learning & Development: Physical Development - All fine by us!

Features

Monday, October 6, 2014

| Nursery World

Can daily sessions of focused physical activities help children develop the gross and fine motor skills they need to become confident writers? Helen Chilton reports on her school's progress.

Rise in number of poor children 'behind in reading' at seven

News

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

| Nursery World

Disadvantaged children who are behind in the 'three Rs' at the age of seven already have their life chances determined, according to Save the Children.

Learning & Development: CL&L - Joined-up thinking

Features

Friday, October 4, 2013

| Nursery World

Making authentic links between reading and talking has been helping early years practitioners and teachers to develop children's communication, language and literacy. Di Chilvers explains.

Positive Relationships: Working with parents - Let's meet

Features

Friday, July 26, 2013

| Nursery World

A project from Bookstart is offering children's centre staff a way to work more closely with disadvantaged families. Ruth Thomson explains.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

News

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Shine on

Features

Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

A Bedford-based nursery's strategy for developing children's communication skills has won it a major award.

The Big Picture: Early language skills in action

News

Friday, December 7, 2012

| Nursery World

The minister for children and families, Edward Timpson MP, visited Stonegrove Children's Centre in Edgware, Barnet to celebrate the progress made by children and their families through the Early Language Development Programme (ELDP).

Learning & Development EAL: Dual purpose

Features

Friday, October 12, 2012

| Nursery World

A training project to help early years practitioners assess the development of children with English as an additional language has proved highly effective. Julie Cigman explains

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