With two year olds now becoming an established part of the school population in many areas of the UK, it is critically important that those working with these very young children fully understand how literacy can be most successfully approached at this sensitive and crucial stage of their development. This book takes the perspective that early literacy for the very young child doesn't just involve books to read, but requires skilled and knowledgeable people who develop sensitive, responsive relationships with the child. Practitioners, parents and caregivers are each a vital component of the child's experience with reading and writing, and all should work together to support the development of emerging literacy skills.

This book is about evaluating the effectiveness of an early years setting in the light of the latest recommendations. It will help early years leaders, managers and practitioners have a better understanding of the self evaluation process, as well as helping them, through this in structured ways, to identify strengths and areas for development in their own school/ setting. It will also help them to improve provision and outcomes for children and be better prepared for Ofsted inspection.

Many books have been written on the early years outdoor environment or contain chapters about outdoor learning in the EYFS but none have really connected with practitioners in the way practitioners want them to. Terry has listened to practitioners and written this book, packed full of colour photos, to support the content and to inspire the reader. It supports the key messages on outdoor learning and contains chapters on every aspect of this and more! It will be useful to all those working in the early years as well as managers and head teachers, students and those supporting practitioners. It will enable practitioners to provide improved outdoor experiences for children as well as understanding the importance of these.

This book provides ideas and inspiration for basic woodwork skills for children aged 3-6. Organized into 3 levels of competence: beginning - sanding, using rulers to measure wood; emerging skills - mini hand drill, hammer and nails; developing competence - screw driver, mini hacksaw, advanced - pliers, glue guns. Includes practical advice on tools and how to use them (both real and play/pretend tools), construction materials (where to source and store), safety issues, role of the adult, where to site the woodworking area in the setting, key vocabulary and decorating/painting wood. Children's physical development as well as knowledge of the world, and mathematical development will all benefit from these activities.

This book is about creating meaningful learning spaces indoors. The learning environment is one of the commitments to the EYFS principle of 'Enabling Environments'. The explanation of the commitment includes the indoor and outdoor learning environments and the emotional learning environment. The learning environment significantly impacts on outcomes for children and it is therefore most important that what is provided is of a high quality and inspirational. This book explores the theory behind the commitment but also gives very practical advice on how to ensure that the indoor environment is planned to inspire, challenge and capture the imagination of every child.

This book supports the delivery of early ICT across the revised EYFS (2012). It explains how to meet the current EYFS requirements including the type of resources that should be purchased to provide an ICT rich environment that will promote improved outcomes for children. Many practitioners are still nervous about the use of ICT in their settings and this book will support them, whatever their level of confidence, in providing improved learning opportunities for children across the prime and specific areas of learning and development. All the case studies, the ideas and the practical elements of the book are based on sound research, and Terry Gould's experience of working with young children. Terry was a former EYFS consultant with ICT lead status.

This is a unique book that supports the current thinking behind outdoor learning. It features over 40 ideas for outdoor activities that support mathematics in the early years and the specific areas of learning in the revised EYFS. All the ideas are tried and tested by Terry and this book will prove to be popular in the early years and well into Key stage 1.

This book will enable early year's leaders, managers and practitioners to identify and address issues around transitions across the early years. Through its focus on identifying the key principles which underpin the transition process, and on the cycle of transition itself, a greater understanding of essential and desirable practice will be developed which can be used to support improved practice and improved outcomes. This book is a well considered combination of explaining the theory behind transition across the early years and how to put this into practice - what it is, why it's important and how to make it effective.

Worldwide, nearly three-quarters of journalists who die on assignment are targeted and assassinated for their dogged pursuit of important stories of injustice. In Marked for Death, Terry Gould brings this statistic to life, documenting the lives of seven journalists in Colombia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Russia, and Iraq who stayed on a story until their tragic deaths. Traveling to each locale, he talks with families, friends, colleagues, local officials, and even, in some cases, the parties who arranged the assassinations. Gould's quest into these diverse hearts of darkness seeks answers to two questions that cut to the core of human morality. What makes journalists stay on a story despite the death threats or bribes to look the other way? And what are the conditions that create a climate in which journalists are assassinated and no charges are brought against the public figures who ordered the killings? In his riveting journey through countries dominated by corruption and violence, Gould searches for the crucial moment when these journalists realized they were willing to die, and finds complex reasons for their personal bravery. His compelling and unvarnished portraits reveal journalists with buffeted pasts and passionate natures embarking on a crusade whose outcome they hoped would extend beyond their murder.

The authors trace the history of Atkinson Morley's Hospital from the time of its inception in 1869 to the present day. The Hospital was endowed by Atkinson Morley, a London hotel owner, who was a member of the Board of Governors of St George's Hospital with the aim of providing St George's with its own convalescent facility, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The book follows the life and times of the benefactor, the events leading up to the building of the convalescent hospital, and its trials and tribulations up to the beginning of the Second World War, including biographical details of the many eminent doctors who acted as visiting staff over this period.;From 1942 the hospital went under a major change in use, from a convalescent facility to an internationally recognized neuroscience centre. These changes are detailed, together with the personalities involved, and these details are set against their larger historical context.

The authors trace the history of Atkinson Morley's Hospital from the time of its inception in 1869 to the present day. The Hospital was endowed by Atkinson Morley, a London hotel owner, who was a member of the Board of Governors of St George's Hospital with the aim of providing St George's with its own convalescent facility, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom. The book follows the life and times of the benefactor, the events leading up to the building of the convalescent hospital, and its trials and tribulations up to the beginning of the Second World War, including biographical details of the many eminent doctors who acted as visiting staff over this period. From 1942 the hospital went under a major change in use, from a convalescent facility to an internationally recognized neuroscience centre. These changes are detailed, together with the personalities involved, and these details are set against their larger historical context.

Having worked successfully in the early years, and delivered a great number of training courses to early years practitioners, Terry Gould recognised that for many working with young children, the last 10 years have been, and continue to be, a time of change, uncertainty, and sometimes confusion. In listening to these practitioners requesting 'just one book' that they could use to help them with the key aspects of their role he devised this book in the hope that it would go someway to providing much needed support for many. It is based on his own and colleagues experiences as practitioners working in schools and children's centres and as advisory teachers/consultants, working with a variety of settings including schools, private day nurseries and children's centres.