Display and Resources This year (2013), Chinese New Year is Sunday 10th February, although celebrations will take place for the entire week...

Providing Learning Opportunities Providing learning through ICT is extremely important in the Early Years. The children we are teaching wil...

Not Just in Maths Lessons When children struggle with recognising numbers in the classroom I always ask parents to do number walks with the...

Pre-Writing Activities As you know, Reception is where Britain's youngest learn how to write. There are a number of steps that precede...

The Reception Space Station My role play area is finished and I absolutely love it! It was made entirely by my teaching assistant and it lo...

The 2012-13 Curriculum Showing progress in the Early Years has always been difficult. The previous system of using profile points allowed p...

Yes, We Do Them In Reception! Not all schools have a cohort that are ready for spellings in Reception. Some children are just not at the st...