Dobbies announces Nest Nurseries Garden Project as its national Helping Your Community Grow winner The UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies, announces its national Helping Your Community Grow winner, seeing…

Frederick Froebel, a nineteenth century educator saw children as active, curious, creative learners. He considered that children learn best through self-activity, rich first-hand experience, problem-solving, play and talk. He believed…

The Third Teacher Reggio Emilia In the article Maximising the potential of the ‘third teacher’ S. Ludlow summarises the following ‘The educators of Reggio Emilia call the environment the “third…

The organisation Early Years Matters defines the importance of play as the following: ‘Play underpins the EYFS. It also underpins learning and all aspects of children’s development. Through play, children…

The Characteristics of Effective Learning Nancy Stewart (2011 p.8) described the importance of the Characteristics of Effective Learning as follows ‘As adults we are responsible for ensuring that a child’s…