iPads in the Early Years
Exploring how tablets are integrated into children's play and interactions
Servicing Utopia in Education
Servicing Utopia in Education (SUiA): Critical considerations for social change through the accessible use and design of early years and primary education settings.
Early Outcomes South Yorkshire Evaluation
An evaluation of the DfE funded Early Outcomes programme in South Yorkshire exploring the way four Local Authorities and the South Yorkshire Futures social mobility partnership collaborated to improve early years Speech and Language provision across the region.
Sheffield nursery first to be given trauma-informed award
Meadows Nursery in Shirecliffe has become the first community-based nursery to receive a Trauma and Mental Health Informed Setting Award.
Meadows Nursery team wins prestigious teaching award
The team at the Meadows Nursery and Early Years Community Research Centre (EYCRC) has been awarded a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence from Advance HE.
Getting the most from your Foundation Stage: a CPD programme
Helping to build confident and informed leadership and improved pedagogical practice in school Foundation Stages
Seen. Heard. Valued. Art exhibition launches in Sheffield
Families from The Meadows nursery are marking their fight to change their area’s reputation and their own families’ futures with a powerful new art exhibition at Sheffield Hallam University.
Counting Collections
Measuring the efficacy of a numeracy programme for pupils in reception classes through a clustered randomised controlled trial.
Talk With Tales for Children (TWiTCH)
The TWiTCH programme is based on the principles of Dialogic Reading. Through TWiTCH training, practitioners learn how to use a clearly structured intervention that builds on familiar Early Years practice (storytime and small group work) to improve the quality and quantity of adult-child interactions. The programme aims to strengthen practice and build practitioner skills and confidence, leading to regular, high-quality interactions which will increase vocabulary and the complexity of children’s language and their ability to express opinions.
Infant Language Link
Evaluating the efficacy of a tiered language support programme for Y1 pupils through a clustered randomised controlled trial.