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Creative solutions to early years behaviour

When dealing with the feelings and behaviour of early years pupils, teachers should try looking at creative ways to approach and deal with problems says Anni McTavish

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Promoting good early years behaviour

Good behaviour in early years is something that practitioners can and should promote, says Juliet Neill-Hall, who offers some strategies on 'how to'

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Early Years PiP Cards: 2.1 Respecting each other

Early Years Update focuses on the importance of respectful relationships in environments with babies, toddlers and three- to five-year-old children. This is part of a range of practical ideas to underpin the information in the Early Years Foundation Stage Principles into Practice cards

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Advertising and shortlisting early years staff

In order to recruit the right candidates to your early years staff, after putting together a teaching job description, you must think about how you will advertise and shortlist for the role

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Enrichment Activities: Fossils and green energy

These enrichment activities get pupils to think about unusual animals and ways of converting natural power into electricity read more

Primary Assembly: Butterfly summer

This assembly looks forward to the coming of summer and thinks about what it would be like without butterflies, by focusing on some of the endangered species found in Britain read more

Primary Assembly: Paula's preperations for Beijing

This week's assembly tells the story of Paula Radcliffe, focusing on her experiences as an asthma sufferer and looking at how she is preparing for the Olympics in Beijing. read more

Primary Assembly: Crufts

This assembly celebrates the friendship that exists between a dog and its owner read more

Primary Assembly: Dog's best friend

This assembly looks at the special link that developed between dog and soldier. read more

Early years: eight principles for observational assessment

The eight principles for observational assessment, provided in the DCSF’s Creating the Picture, can be used by practitioners in all early years settings to ensure that the requirements of the EYFS are met read more

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