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Hugh McEwan explores how flexible, non-built-in furniture can create adaptable, sustainable early years spaces, helping settings achieve greater longevity, functionality, and value through thoughtful planning and collaboration.

Paul Lindley's article highlights the urgent need to restore play to children's lives, drawing on the wider debate sparked by Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation. Paul calls for a new national play strategy, emphasising how play is…

Skipping may seem like just a fun and playful activity, but it holds surprising benefits for children's physical health, brain development, and overall wellbeing. In this article, Ben Kingston-Hughes explores the instinctive power of play,…

What’s the best way to understand how a seed turns into a plant? Watch it happen!

Read about Mildred Parten’s groundbreaking theory on the Six Stages of Child’s Play in this richly illustrated article.

One child peers through a magnifying glass at a seedling, while a group of children dance in from of a light and watch their shadows. This is a Reggio Emilia inspired classrom – a space created entirely for children’s creativity and…

You can welcome children to the home corner by making it as much like children’s real homes as possible.