Master the knowledge and skills you need to obtain the new work-based CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification.

Clear and concise guide to becoming an outstanding early years practitioner in the true Ofsted meaning of the word. All of the time. Every day.

Is it time we stopped seeing boys as losers, with later development and a consequent certainty of failing in the current curriculum? This book will explore what boys are good at, and how we can help them to become more resilient and successful at school and in their future lives.

Help your students master the knowledge and skills they need for the new CACHE Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Childcare & Education (Early Years Educator)

Children are ‘hard-wired’ to learn and they learn best by being active and autonomous – exploring, discovering, creating and taking risks, in other words, by playing. However, formal, subject specific lessons and a focus on data, targets and unrealistic expectations are causing young children to be bored and stressed and this is stifling their learning. Year One in Action reveals the remarkable...

* Dedicated support for work-based learners taking the new Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Children's Learning and Development (Early Years Educator). * Covers all mandatory and selected optional units.

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Develop your understanding and skills with this textbook endorsed by CACHE for the new qualification.

Offers practical guidance on developing high quality interactions to better scaffold children's learning and development.

Demonstrating how to organise and structure your project and interpret your findings, this step-by-step guide continues to be a key resource if you're doing an early years research project.

This book shows early years settings how to set up the 'Talk for Writing' approach and how to involve parents, carers and other family members.

Build understanding and knowledge with this comprehensive full-colour textbook that covers core modules across all aspects of Early Years.

When Halt and Crowley discover that the ambitious Morgarath has been infiltrating the Rangers in order to corrupt the corps and, ultimately, steal the throne, they seek a royal warrant to stop him before it is too late. Yet when Halt and Crowley arrive in Gorlan, they discover just how close Morgarath's scheme is to taking root.

Stories and fantasy play engage all young children and help them to draw connections and make sense of the world. MakeBelieve Arts Helicopter Stories are tried, tested and proven to have a significant impact on children’s literacy and communication skills, their confidence and social and emotional development. Based on the storytelling and story acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley, this book...

A comprehensive guided journal for the first five years of your child's life.

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Outdoor learning continues to play an essential role in early years education, and this new edition of a bestselling book explores how the Forest School approach can be easily and effectively incorporated into early years practice.

This lively book will guide you in planning, stimulating and organising role play inside and out. Part 1 discussed why role play is important. Part 2 presents activities suitable for a range of role play situations. There are ideas for materials, equipment and locations, including advice on making the most of limited resources.

A practical, common sense approach to leadership that can be applied to everyday practice. Fully up-to-date and including a chapter on supervision, this will appeal to all leaders and managers with line management responsibility.

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Based on high-quality pedagogy and developed for the use of teaching staff and managers, the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale can be used alongside other environment scales (including ECERS-E, ECERS-R or ITERS-R) to give a more complete picture of what high-quality early childhood education and care can look like.

A critical overview of key issues and areas within early years for those training or working in the sector, focused on policy and practice.