In my classroom management course at the university, we learn how children must have their basic needs satisfied prior to establishing an at...
Round Up of 2010
As it’s nearly Christmas, it must be time for the annual round-up of major developments and new research published in the children’s sector ...
Sure Start: Success or Not?
It's easy to be baffled by research... Take the example of Sure Start - the programme has been featured numerous times on this site, wi...
Teachers / Safeguarding
Two new reports which should be of interest to many of the site's visitors: Safeguarding Children: Literature Review is a new report fr...
Helping Children Become Thinkers
Several people reading my last post asked me to elaborate on encouraging curiosity in young children. Using my years in the classroom, I wou...
The Children Left Behind
Last week saw the release of The Children Left Behind , a UNICEF publication which compares inequality in child wellbeing in 24 of the world...
EYES Update
Recently I've noticed an increase in the number of searches being carried out using the EYES service (see right hand side of page). Hope...
Busy Week!
A bumper post today, to reflect the number of interesting studies that have come out in recent days. Without further ado... Last Friday saw ...
New DfE Research
Last week saw the publication of the latest monthly batch of DfE research reports. Here are some of the highlights: The Impact of Sure Start...
Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Development
This post is essentially a plug for an incredibly useful site for students on all early years courses. The Encyclopedia on Early Childhood D...
Not Present and Not Correct
A new publication from Barnardos tackles the issue of school exclusions by claiming that excluding disruptive pupils can cost three times a...
The Importance of Teaching - The Schools White Paper 2010
If you watched the news yesterday, you probably saw some coverage of the launch of the government's white paper outlining their plans to...
Ofsted Annual Report
Ofsted's annual report for 2009/10 is published today, with information on all aspects of education and childcare. Ofsted have set up a ...
What's This? Part Two
Congratulations to Lisa Perrett on providing the correct answer to Friday's puzzle (see previous post ). To others who've attempted ...
What's This?
We're always investigating new ways to communicate news & information with our users, so today's post is a bit of an experiment ...
Reading By Six
Ofsted's latest report highlights the success of using phonics as a tool to teach children how to read. Reading by Six: how the Best Sch...
Children's Sector Reforms
The latest government changes to childcare provision have been published today, with the announcement that children's centres will no lo...
Children and Alcohol
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been carrying out research into the relationship between children and alcohol, and recently published tw...
Born Creative
A major new report from the Demos think tank entitled Born Creative is published today, and explores the issues surrounding creativity in t...
Connecting the Dots
I am attending the annual NAEYC Conference in Anaheim. I always enjoy this conference because it is wonderful to see such a large group of p...
Class Blogs
Looking for ideas on how to use online teaching tools with children? An article from the Guardian website entitled Class Blogs: a Better Way...
Playwork Education & Skills Strategy
SkillsActive have today published a new five year strategy to encourage workforce development in the play sector . The document has been wri...
New DfE Research
The end of each month usually sees the publication of a collection of new research reports from the Department of Education (DfE), and Octob...
Early Intervention
C4EO recently published a new report which examines best practice in using early intervention to support at risk or disadvantaged children,...
Fathers & Education
A recent request for information on fathers' involvement in their children's education turned up a host of resources, so it seems a ...
More on the Spending Review
The previous post dealt with the details of cuts to children's services following last week's Comprehensive Spending Review. Now the...
7 Connecting Habits of a Lead Teacher
In our classroom management course this week we were talking about setting up classrooms that avoid punishment (punitive discipline). I had ...
Spending Review - Children's Services
This afternoon has finally seen the publication of the government's spending review with details of cuts in most areas of the public sec...
Special Educational Needs 2010
The Department of Education has just published Children with Special Educational Needs 2010: An Analysis . This is the second edition of an ...
Millennium Cohort Study
The Millennium Cohort Study is a mammoth ongoing research project which is examining the lives of 19,000 children born in the UK during the...
Starting a Family Revolution
In April 2009 the Family Commission (set up by the 4Children charity) began work on an in-depth inquiry to investigate all aspects of fami...
Fall Colors
I'm always jealous of people who live in climates that are more mild during the winter (I don't enjoy cold much any more). However, ...
How Fair is Britain?
Yesterday saw the publication of How Fair is Britain? , a mammoth report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission which looks at equal...
Serious Games
One for the ICT experts among our readers today - Futurelab have just published a literature review which examines the topic of how digital...
Achievement in the Foundation Stage
A new research report entitled Achievement of Children in the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile has been published today by the Departme...
The Finish Line
I ran my first half-marathon on Saturday. I just have one thing to say, "13 miles is a long way!" I try to avoid driving 13 miles...
Teaching Resources
A big welcome to all of the new PGCE students at UCB. As promised in this morning's session, here are some of the websites out there wh...
Community Family Support Resources
A big welcome to all of the new Community Family Support students at UCB. If you'd like to know about websites which will be invaluable ...
Classroom Management
I was instructing my student teachers this week about setting up a classroom to avoid negative behaviors. I often use information learned f...
Progressive Education in the 1940s
Something a little different today. The video below is a 1940s newsreel from the US which covers the topic of 'progressive education...
School Libraries
A report from the School Library Commission draws a link between successful schools and well-run libraries, but argues that at present many ...
The Special Educational Needs and Disability Review
A major review from Ofsted has grabbed the headlines this morning, after it concluded that thousands of pupils are being wrongly labelled as...
New from OnTheWeb
The latest edition of OnTheWeb (see previous post for details) is as usual packed with details of new reports and research relating to educ...
Effective Early Childhood Education Programmes
New research from the CfBT Education Trust examines the effectiveness of 28 different early education programmes. The broad conclusion from...
Positivity in Practice
While dealing with a recent enquiry I came across a new(ish) report from the NFER which may be of interest to some readers. Positivity in P...
Practitioners' Experiences of the Early Years Foundation Stage
A new detailed study into the Foundation Stage has found that early years practitioners are strongly in favour of the EYFS framework . The r...