Celebrating 100 Years: L is for literacy

100 Years

We've explored…: a dead land snail

Practice
Window cleaning can be a fun role-play activity

Childminder activities: Wash day!

Activities
Estimates show 24 per cent of households with children under four years old are experiencing food poverty

EYE SUPPLEMENT Research: Growing up hungry

Nutrition
Jade works at the Happy Days Nursery in Exeter alongside her studies

EYE SUPPLEMENT Student spotlight: Unplanned paths

Careers & Training
Forest Schools: The Research Evidence Edited by Mark Brundrett, Elizabeth Malone and Avril Rowley Routledge February 2025 pp238, £145 9781032861920

EYE SUPPLEMENT Professional Book Review: Forest learning

Practice

EYE SUPPLEMENT Picture books: Life lessons

Literacy

‘Outdoor playgrounds can be great levellers’

Viewpoint

MPs, charities and businesses back urgent reform of parental leave system 

Business

Local authorities' inconsistent charging rules place early years providers under additional pressure to deliver funded offer

Funding
‘Peek-a-boo’ is loved by babies because of the repetition

How predictability helps children make sense of the world

Learning & Development

Early years in schools: Using the Princess of Wales' Shaping us Framework

The Learning Environment