All early years videos

Early years advisors Sue Durant and Sheila Sage have a passion for developing strategies for "fun-centred" learning. In this programme they look at daily routines in an early years setting and explore how everyday tasks can be used to develop young ...

In response to teachers' concerns about the poor language and listening skills of many children entering Key Stage 1, former headteacher and author Sue Palmer has researched the best possible basis for language and literacy learning in the early years.

Mike Baker explains what the new Early Years Foundation Stage Framework will mean for early years practitioners when it becomes statutory in September 2008.

Professor Ted Wragg investigates the latest hot, and often surprising, research into educational matters.

At Erdington Hall School in Birmingham a newly-appointed headteacher believes that the key to taking her school out of the OFSTED underachieving category is effective foundation stage literacy.

A re-drafting of the government's literary strategy in 2007 is expected to order primary schools to adopt a system of "synthetic phonics" to teach children to read.

Langley Primary School in Oldbury has been identified by Sir Jim Rose as having excellent practice in phonics.

Foundation teacher Karen Whitehouse teaches her reception class a lesson about minibeasts. Pupils examine features of these creatures, looking at similarities and differences, with the key aim to classify and sort them into specific types.

In this edition we're looking at three more resources for early years.

In this edition we're looking at three resources for early years.