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Learning & Development: Language - Time to talk

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

Poor communication skills in young children are the subject of a new strategy for an education team working in partnership with a primary care trust, says Adele Hawkes.

Learning & Development: Superhero Books - Zap! Pow!

Features

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's interest in superheroes can be met by something other than violent, impossibly powerful action figures, says Helen Bromley

England football star in bid to get more children reading

News

Friday, June 13, 2014

| Nursery World

At the start of the World Cup, England midfielder Frank Lampard has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust to encourage children to take ‘reading selfies’.

Children share reading tips for summer

News

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

| Nursery World

Pre-school and primary children are invited to spend their summer holidays lost in books and share their favourites as part of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge.

Analysis: More than soundbites for EYFS reform

News

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Only meaningful dialogue between the Government and the early years sector will avoid ideological swings in policy and achieve a balanced approach to reform of the EYFS, say Margaret Edgington, Richard House and Kim Simpson of the Open EYE Campaign.

Learning & Development: Independent learning - All by myself

Features

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

| Nursery World

Provision to enable and challenge the youngest children to direct their own learning is carefully thought out at a centre visited by Nicole Weinstein.

Picture book author Lauren Child is new children’s laureate

News

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

| Nursery World

The author and illustrator of the award-winning Charlie and Lola and Clarice Bean books has been named as the 10th Waterstone’s Children’s Laureate.

EYFS Activities - Five things to do with… favourite stories

Features

Monday, June 26, 2017

| Nursery World

Children’s favourite books can be used to encourage imaginative play outdoors, finds Julie Mountain

Free books scheme for under-fives extends to all areas

News

Monday, December 12, 2011

| Nursery World

The Scottish Book Trust's early years book gifting programme has received an additional 450,000, bringing the total amount of funding for the scheme to 1.5m until 2013.

Learning & Development: Rhymes for birth to threes - Rock-a-byebaby

Features

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

| Nursery World

Use one of the best known nursery rhymes to soothe babies and inspire imitative play by toddlers, says Judith Stevens.

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

Foster carers encouraged to inspire love of books

News

Friday, July 7, 2017

| Nursery World

Reading together improves relationships between children and their foster carers, new research suggests.

Gove makes partial U-turn over plan to axe Booktrust funding

News

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Education secretary Michael Gove has partly reversed the Government's decision to axe the 13m grant for programmes which provide free books for babies and children, after the move was slammed by writers including the poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and children's author Philip Pullman.

Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... Pirates!

Features

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

| Nursery World

Set sail for adventure, imagination and creative activities across all areas of the curriculum with a topic on these popular characters, outlined by Helen Bromley.

Reading to Children - The magic of books

Features

Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

With fewer parents reading to their children, Penny Tassoni explains how practitioners can best share books

New speech and language project seeks early years expertise

News

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

| Nursery World

A speech and language therapy service is looking for early years settings to be part of a pilot training project involving virtual reality.

EYFS Activities: Sharing books… Puffin Peter

Features

Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

by Petr Horacek (Walker Books, 2011)

Learning & Development: Reading - Spread the word

Features

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

| Nursery World

Encouraging parents to read to their children is just one aim of the National Year of Reading. Ruth Thomson talks to one nursery chain getting in on the act themselves.

We've explored… gardening

Features

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