My Favourite Colour is Green

This practical guide will support practitioners in engaging younger children in climate change and environmental issues. It contains an overview of the challenge of climate change and highlights how this issue links directly to children’s rights, the Every Child Matters Outcomes and Early Years Foundation Stage. We also showcase real practitioners’ projects in this area ranging from day-to-day litter clear ups to extensive climate change projects.

Members: £12.60

Non-members: £16.75

Developing Effective Team Work

Recognising the importance of a whole team approach to the EYFS, this book offers managers practical advice on how to motivate staff to embrace new approaches to their work. The book offers strategies and advice that can be applied to all areas of activity; planning, observation and quality improvement.

Members: £9.55

Non-members: £12.95

Sustainable Early Years Settings

With forecasts indicating a tough time ahead, early years settings, like any other business, need to ensure they are well positioned to cope with the economic challenges. Sustainable Early Years Settings, developed in association with Barclays and other key organisations, looks at managing debt, cash flow, obtaining finance and other essential business management areas.

Members: £9.95

Non-members: £13.95

Safeguarding children

The central importance of effective policies and procedures to safeguard children in early years settings is addressed in this publication. It provides information about the identification of child abuse, the factors affecting children's vulnerability and the role of the early years practitioner in the child protection process. Record templates are provided for recording concerns.

Members: £9.55

Non-members: £12.95

Creative Free-Flow Play

One of the major challenges facing settings, especially ‘pack away’ settings or those with limited space, is how to make a reality of free-flow play. It discusses why free-flow play is an issue, what values it brings, how it is viewed within the EYFS and by Ofsted, and provides an action play for improving free-flow play. With contributions from settings who have used the EYFS to revise their approaches to freeflow play this book offers practical advice that can benefit all providers.

Members: £7.80

Non-members: £10.75

Engaging Mothers and Fathers

The book, to be available early in 2010, offers practical advice on how to engage and develop effective relations with the fathers and mothers who use the setting. With Ofsted looking to grade settings on their engagement with parents this book offers support to develop a real partnership with fathers and mothers.

Members: £7.80

Non-members: £10.75

Changing Lives, Changing Life: The Pedagogical Perspective of the Pre-school Learning Alliance

This book traces the history and underlying theoretical perspectives that gave rise to the unique model of early years services founded upon empowering parents. Parents took the lead in developing the kind of provision that recognised them as children’s first and foremost educators.

This book will provide a broad and thorough understanding of the Alliance’s principles and core values, which have heavily influenced the EYFS framework. It will be a valuable tool for continuing professional development. Understanding how early years services have developed will support practitioners in moulding their services to the best advantage of children and their families. Also discussed is how the Alliance’s political ethos created a national movement for personal and community development that became the most innovative approach to early education in this country of the 20th century.

Members: £13.55

Non-members: £16.95