Easy-to-make and cheap-to-buy resources will help children across the age groups explore and experience the wind, explains ...

Amid extra funding for school-based nurseries, and a new school-readiness drive, is the balance shifting away from PVIs?

New research from Ofsted aims to help early years leaders and staff 'refine' their approach to supporting babies and toddlers ...

Creating an attractive and richly resourced environment that is calm, safe and nurturing for the babies. The first few months and years of a baby's life are a critical window for brain development, ...

In the first in a new series on staple resources, Nicole Weinstein looks at the many uses for balls in childcare settings ...

In the first in a new series on staple resources, Nicole Weinstein looks at the many uses for balls in childcare settings ...

Creative play has a soothing action on the nervous system, says Jacqueline Harding in an edited extract of The Brain that ...

Creative play has a soothing action on the nervous system, says Jacqueline Harding in an edited extract of The Brain that ...

What questioning techniques can early years practitioners use to help children use their critical thinking skills to the ...

A trip to the local skatepark – suggested by one of the children attending First Friends Nursery in Alton, Hampshire – led to ...

Children whose irritability does not reduce between ages three and seven are at higher risk of depression and self-harm as ...

Richard Willis, visiting professor at the University of South Wales, reviews a book that examines the importance of smell for ...