Reading aloud to young children is great for their literacy, but studies show that young children can learn more vocabulary from conversation at the dinner table, according to The Family Dinner Project .
They say, children who eat dinner with their families have better skills for developing literacy than those who don’t eat with their families.
Ofsted has published the latest in a series of reviews into different subjects across the curriculum. Today’s review looks at English.
This review explores a wide and diverse range of research relating to English, to identify factors that can contribute to high-quality curriculums, pedagogy, assessment and schools’ systems for managing the subject. Ofsted’s education inspection framework (...
Launching on May 3rd 2022, The Early Years Pack by The Positive Birth Company (PBC) is a new digital course featuring 8 expert-led workshops to support parents from 6 months +.
The Positive Birth Company ( as seen on Dragons’ Den 2021 ) brought on 8 of the UK’s leading parenting experts to deliver bespoke workshops in this digital 21st century guide , imparting their experience and...
Clock up the miles this Easter, and into the Summer term, in Schoolreaders Race for Reading and help more children leave primary school able to read well.
The 80-day virtual Around the World challenge runs until June 19th 2022. Set your distance, go it alone or with friends, family, your sports’ club or book group, and commit to walk, run, cycle, swim or even walk a dog to help cover the...
One in 100 children are diagnosed with autism in the UK and often require additional support to assist their personal and social development. London based Three Little Birds Nurseries is sharing the features it has put in place to ensure children with autism are as comfortable in the nursery’s environment as possible.
Every year, April is Autism Awareness Month and fosters worldwide
Ofsted has today published the second set of reports in a series looking at the pandemic’s continued impact on education providers.
From: Ofsted
Published 4 April 2022
The reports find that much good progress has been made across the education sector to help children and learners recover the knowledge and skills they missed out on during the pandemic. However, amid strong...
Educational recovery and excellence in early years practice will be the top priorities as National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA)’s annual national nursery conference returns in 2022 following an enforced two year absence. To reflect the sector’s great commitment to children and families, and their efforts to rebuild recovery following the most difficult years of the pandemic, the theme for...
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has discovered that at least £55 million of early years funding was either left unspent or allocated against other budget pressures in 2020/21 by local authorities.
A huge proportion of this sat in designated schools grant reserves.
This was for the financial year during the worst of the Covid pandemic from April 2020 to March 2021 when three...
National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) is delighted to announce the launch of our new website which will better serve our nursery members and the early years sector.
The new website is set to go live from 1 March 2022 and will have lots of exciting new benefits.
As well as a new look, there will be an improved myNDNA area free for anyone who registers which will include a...
