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All these ideas are designed to encourage reflective practice – and help you identify your children’s individual characteristics of effective learning. Use them as a starting point for exploring learning areas – while being receptive to the directions that children want to go in and tuning in to their responses.
In part four of her series on sustainability, Hilary White explores the different ways we can reuse materials such as picture books to teach children the value of breathing new life into old objects.
Judith Harries discusses how children can use the word play, onomatopoeia and rhyme found in Michael Rosen's much-loved children's books to develop their speaking skills and cooperative play.
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Older children, siblings, BAME children and those with special educational needs are harder to place.
Analysis by the School Cuts coalition shows cuts averaging £382 per pupil for primary schools in the most deprived intakes, compared with £125 a year in the least deprived intakes.
Discover what it means to implement a curriculum under the new-style inspections and dip into our other professional articles design to inspire, inform and enhance your work with young children.
Teachers continue to feel they are spending excessive amounts of time on planning, marking and data management.
Marketing your setting is a crucial part of ensuring that your childcare business is a success, but it needn’t be onerous or expensive. Here are some top tips
In this extract from Messy Play in the Early Years, Sue Gascoyne provides a theoretical perspective on children's ‘material engagements’, while keeping hands-on practice clearly in view. A deeper understanding of messy play is key to making it an exciting learning opportunity for all children.
In part two of Dr Sue Allingham's series exploring Ofsted's new nursery and school inspection frameworks, she discusses what it means to implement a curriculum.
With new approaches to learning developing all the time, from forest schools to the Curiosity Approach, practitioners risk implementing half-hearted attempts at pedagogy, says Chloe Webster.
In this extract from Messy Play in the Early Years, Sue Gascoyne provides a theoretical perspective on children's ‘material engagements’, while keeping hands-on practice clearly in view. A deeper understanding of messy play is key to making it an exciting learning opportunity for all children.
The London Early Years Foundation degree is leading the way for staff development. Karen Hart speaks with its senior lecturer and one of its first students, to learn about progress and next steps.
