Some of our readers will be seeing temperatures starting to plummet as winter sets in properly! It’s easy to forget that young children may not have experienced these conditions before, or that they may not be able to remember much about the last snap of freezing weather. But keep this in mind as the landscape […]
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Hello and welcome to the Early Years Blog, As the winter holidays approach schools will be thinking about planning for the New Year. The Early Years Foundation Stage is non-prescriptive in terms of how this planning is carried out, so settings are free to develop their own methods. However, planning must be effective and completed […]
Read moreLast month, we looked at how practitioners can prepare children for the big transition from the early years setting to the school classroom. With that accomplished, settings will now be focussing on how to help their new cohort of children settle into their own busy early years environments. Preparing to receive a new child […]
Read moreCurrently, many early years settings will be helping their oldest children prepare for their upcoming transition to school. While focussed on those all-important preparation activities – such as visits to the new setting, reading books about starting school and playing making friends games – it’s easy to forget about providing equally important opportunities for children […]
Read moreHi and welcome to the new home of the early years blog. Over the coming months, I’ll be keeping you up-to-date with early years developments, as well as providing plenty of activity ideas and guidance on meeting the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage. I’ll also be adding to our range of free factsheets […]
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