Teaching Children How to Identify and Express Emotions Acknowledging a child’s emotions, putting words on anger, fear, sadness, joy and disgust is essential to...

Returning to School After Coronavirus Lockdown At a time of great uncertainty, schools and settings are trying to work out the best way to...

Kathryn Solly, author of ‘Risk, Challenge and Adventure in the Early Years’ has taken a break from training childcare professionals to share her experience in...

Whatever our culture, wherever we were born, music is a universal language that has the power to release and transmit emotions. It is felt and...

The New Age of Digital Technology and Early Years Education Since at least the 1980s “computers” have played some part in education. Yet while...

How Does Technology Affect Children’s Creativity? Digital technologies of numerous kinds make modern lifestyles more comfortable for us all. But for young children born...

The Role of Digital Play in the Early Years Today’s pre-school children were born into the digital age, so for them it is already...

Lev Vygotsky was another psychologist who believed children learn about their world through physical interaction. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory asserts that learning is an essentially...

The Impact of Technology on Social & Emotional Development The use of technology is one of those areas of childcare and early years learning...

Digital Literacy: What Does it Mean to be Literate in the 21st Century? Early exposure to everyday digital devices is giving young children access...

What makes Early Years Children so Digitally Fluent? Even the very young seem digitally fluent, born ready to embrace a digital future. Technology writer...

Fine Motor Skills: Early Years Development All children are gifted with great capabilities, that are often unsuspected. By providing them with encouragement and ample...

Let’s face it, when babies cry can be totally destabilizing and disarming. It acts on our little heart like a flashing light but also...

Child wellbeing and wellness are not necessarily the same thing, but no one would deny they are usually closely related. Furthermore, whilst well and...

Pete Moorhouse has written several books and journal articles on the benefits of hands-on learning. We spoke to him about his work in schools...

Teaching Road Safety for Children Road collision is one of the main causes of premature death among children, so learning to be responsible road users...

How to Stop Bullying in Early Childhood It may seem unusual to consider bullying as an issue in the early years, but even children...

Research shows that the most effective way of teaching young children to make and read words is to teach phonics in a structured way....

Activities for Teaching Poetry in the Early Years Read Books and Poems Make Up Your Own Poems Nursery Rhymes Rhyming Games Beat Out The...

Different Cultures & Foreign Languages in the Early Years Children will often accept the environment with which they are presented. Though we can easily nurture...