* Contact a Family, the charity for families with disabled children, has launched a new service for children's centres, designed to help them enhance the services and information they provide. The...
Calmly reassure the other children and ensure that the child having the seizure cannot harm themselves. Only move the child if there are sharp or hot objects or electrical appliances nearby. Then: 1...
Like everything else, children's sense of humour develops in stages. Penny Tassoni looks at what tickles them Most people would claim to have a sense of humour. Indeed, it is such a valued commodity...
City & Guilds is the only awarding body to have included mandatory units at Level 4 in its work-based Early Years Educator course. Gabriella Jozwiak reports.
The Early Learning Goals for the new foundation stage are strong on key skills and lists of objectives. But practitioners, and families, may find it more helpful to concentrate on young children's...
In the first of a new series, Jan Dubiel considers the meaning of the characteristics of effective teaching and learning, highlighted in the Early Years Foundation Stage review
Harry enjoyed a holiday with his family this month. He loved the freedom of the countryside and seeing ducks and other animals. He slept in a bed for the very first time and seemed happy with the...
The Lancashire-based Adventures in Learning group has opened its second nursery thanks to a £500,000 funding package from HSBC.
* On the last day of the summer term this month, the children from Angus College Nursery had an important job to do - they released the frogs and toads they had been caring for into the wildlife pond...
Nap time Sophie, three, attends nursery every weekday while her mother is at work.
