This page provides some fab readings and useful insights to work with children!
Behaviour management – This booklet provides a good practice approach to supporting and managing behaviour in the nursery. This describes the kinds of approaches and strategies all staff at Rainbow should be using
Learning through Play – A booklet about all the ways children learn through play, and how practitioners can support this
Core Experiences in the Early Years – This booklet provides a fabulous overview of effective practice in line with the EYFS, which is our curriculum framework. An excellent read, and very practical ideas.
Child Protection and Safeguarding chapter provides an introduction to keeping children safe from abuse and harm, and gives details of how you should respond if you have concerns or a child makes a disclosure
Free-play-in-early-childhood – this is an excellent, and very important literature review on the importance of, and how to manage, support and extend free play with children
Understanding two year olds– This booklet helps you to work with 2 year olds! Understanding their needs, highlighting the role of the adult, and discussing key developmental factors
What Happens in Baby Room – A lovely guide by Community Play Things
Guide to working with babies – This is a quick start guide to those new to the baby room
Children under 3… – This 11 page booklet lays out key issues and approaches for working with children 0-3
Emergent Literacy – A journal dedicated to literacy in the early years
Enabling Environments – how to structure the environment so it ‘enables’ children both emotionally and physically and thinking about indoor and outdoor space
What’s wrong with templates – Where is the PLAY in worksheets, colouring‐in, art templates, phonics programs, sight words and early readers?
Promoting independence at nursery – a news article about the importance and some ways to achieve this