How Can Early Years Settings Close the Vocabulary Gap?
Early Years settings can help close the vocabulary gap by creating frequent, meaningful opportunities for children to hear, understand and use new words. Responsive conversation, shared reading, songs, storytelling, role play and practical experiences are most effective when adults follow children’s interests, revisit vocabulary in different contexts and value every child’s home language and way of communicating.
Jack Clarke
How Small School Leaders Can Manage Workload Staffing and Resources
Leading a small primary school means balancing strategic decisions with day-to-day responsibilities, often with limited staffing and little spare capacity. The most effective approach is to set a small number of clear priorities, share responsibility carefully, protect staff workload and use local partnerships to strengthen curriculum planning, recruitment and resource management.
Bring mystery-busting nature series Stan & Gran into your classroom this year!
Stan & Gran inspires young children to explore nature, develop critical thinking and discover wildlife through fun adventures.
Jon Mason
Digital Citizenship: Building Resilience, Not Just Rules
Explore how the CCC moves online safety beyond simple rules to develop true digital citizenship. Aligned to the Education for a Connected World framework, this article highlights how pupils build critical thinking, resilience, and responsible online behaviours through embedded learning and interactive Wayground assessments, empowering them to navigate the digital world with confidence.
Sarah Gorman
Why Physical Computing is at the Heart of the CCC
Explore how the CCC uses physical computing and the micro:bit to bring coding to life. This article highlights how pupils progress from simple LED animations in KS2 to real-world projects using sensors, while developing problem-solving, resilience, and computational thinking skills. Perfect for schools looking to make better use of their micro:bit devices through structured, curriculum-aligned lessons.
Sarah Gorman
The Teacher’s Secret Weapon: Reducing Workload Without Sacrificing Quality
Discover how the Connected Computing Curriculum (CCC), available through EuHu, helps primary teachers reduce planning workload while delivering high-quality computing lessons. Designed by educators, the CCC provides a complete toolkit including lesson sequences, assessment rubrics, progression mapping, and interactive Wayground quizzes.
Sarah Gorman
3 creative and easy summer activities for early years: Part 3
Discover three simple, low-cost outdoor summer activities for early years children designed in collaboration with Early Years Outdoors. These activities—Summer Herby Tea, Summer Petal Cupcakes, and Summer Colours—boost language, creative thinking, and sensory development using accessible, everyday natural resources.
Katie Taylor
Mud Kitchens for Schools: What Accessories Do You Need?
Mud kitchens are most effective when they include a carefully chosen range of accessories that encourage exploration, creativity, communication and problem-solving. In EYFS settings, resources such as pots, pans, measuring tools, natural materials and water-play equipment help children engage in meaningful outdoor learning experiences that support multiple areas of development while promoting child-led play.
Rachel Pangburn
Cosmic Kids Yoga in the Classroom: Small Moments, Big Difference
Discover how introducing short, impactful yoga and mindfulness routines into everyday classroom routines helps children reset, focus, and regulate big emotions. This article explores our exclusive partnership with Cosmic Kids and Learning Resources to deliver easy, zero-prep tools designed to cultivate calmer, happier learning environments.
Win Ho
Making Coding Feel Real with EaRL
Computing can sometimes be one of those subjects where children can say the right words without those words fully meaning something to them yet. They might say algorithm, sequence or debugging, but that does not always mean it has properly clicked.
Simon Hunt
Early signs of Spring for Early Years children
Check out how to spot early signs of spring and turn them into meaningful, playful learning moments with your little learners.
Katie Taylor
Schools Want Sustainable Choices — But They Need Clarity and Practical Support
Sustainability is firmly on the agenda for schools, but leaders are clear that environmental ambition must be matched with practical reality.