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Coronavirus: Find all the latest news on how the pandemic is affecting the early years sector and children.
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PRACTICE GUIDE EYFS Best Practice in Schools Different aspects of early years provision in schools
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MANAGEMENT GUIDE
OFSTED We take key areas where settings underperform at inspection, and present models of best practice.
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JULY 2020 ■ Around the nursery – baby rooms ■ Building your curriculum – engage with your local area/community ■ EYFS in Schools special – helping children settle back into school ■ An early years project on mud ■ Finger rhyme poster – ‘Tommy
Thumb’ ■ PIcturebooks – the series turns to interactive books (pop-up, lift-theflap, etc.) ■ A Leicester project promoting communication and language through music (photo above)
FREE ACTIVITY POSTER Our series on ‘Growing Up’ continues with eating in this issue
NEWS 6 analysis
Settings divided over opening 8 news round-up
All you need to know in brief 11 noticeboard
Community catch-up
OPINION 12 to the point
Michael Pettavel and Stramash Social Enterprise’s chief executive Kenny Forsyth 13 people
Tiney founder Brett Wigdortz 42 over to you
Your letters and social media posts contents
ACTIVITIES 23 a-z of learning
C is for… circuits and celebrations 24 project
Creating a coronavirus hospital ward to make sense of the crisis 26 rhyme poster
‘1 bubble, 2 bubbles’
38 coronavirus
Preparing those children and their families who are due to move up to school in September
PRACTICE 14 coronavirus
How we can best prepare for children – and us – returning to normality 16 knowledge
Encouraging children to think and talk about what they are learning 20 around the nursery Construction play’s benefits and how settings can resource for it 28 picturebooks
The importance of giving children books that represent their diversity 31 common conditions
An essential guide to tonsillitis 32 health & nutrition
Research has linked smaller brain size in adults to extreme deprivation in early childhood
CLASSIFIED 39 services 41 appointments
NURSERY EQUIPMENT Our annual publication has the theme of communication and language, with advice on the best resources to support young children’s development in all areas of learning
MANAGEMENT 34 leadership
What performance management entails and how it helps staff 36 opportunity areas
The intervention programmes tackling language and communication in North Yorkshire
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