World Book Day 2021: find the maths hiding on your bookshelf!

Celebrating World Book Day? Here, we share some maths that may be hiding on your bookshelf within some well-known children’s books…

Remote teaching in the Early Years

Practical advice for all Early Years practitioners and the launch of the second set of remote learning cards to support and enhance their remote...

Getting metacognition into remote learning

Strong metacognitive skills support pupils as independent learners. Sophie MacNeill suggests how these could be developed in remote learning contexts.

Celebrating the unique child – the HfL Early Years conference 2021

Make some time to take a step back and to focus on what really matters in early years.

Reception ESSENTIALmaths: what it is, the impact so far and a spring term training opportunity

Looking to enhance provision for maths in Reception? Exciting spring term opportunity - Reception ESSENTIALmaths planning and training package.

Where is the overlap between learning at home and online learning?

The terms remote learning, online learning and home learning are currently used to mean similar things. So, where is the overlap?

What’s all this talk about subitising? Why is it an essential foundation for counting?

Deborah Mulroney reflects on whether we are giving subitising enough attention in our provision. What is it? Why is it so important?

Supporting bilingual learners in the Early Years

Some top tips for helping children who are learning English as an additional language to settle in to your setting and to make great progress.

Post-COVID recovery: getting pupils back on track

Sophie MacNeill shares some key thoughts on how we can approach the recovery journey ahead of us

Sharing nursery rhymes with families of children in the Early Years

Nursery rhymes are just as relevant to young children’s learning and development today as they were when we were young.