22 July 2004
(Photograph) - Six-year-old Ethan Alexander gets to
grips with the tuba at Usher Hall in Edinburgh, where a 'Kids Go Free' scheme
is on offer to those aged five to...
22 July 2004
(Photograph) - Jack Watson, aged 16 months, from Kemnay
pays a visit to a house of the Three Little Pigs with granddad Stewart Watson
at Storybook Glen near Aberdeen, writes...
22 July 2004
Nurseries provide far better food education than
primary schools, according to a report published by Ofsted and the Food
Standards Agency last week. An investigation into nutritional standards in 25...
22 July 2004
The second phase of a UK-wide consultation on proposals
to revise the values and assumptions that inform playwork training has been
launched by Play Wales, the national organisation for play...
22 July 2004
Nurseries and playgroups showing children films on DVDs
or videos must obtain a licence or permission from the copyright owner or else
they will be in breach of copyright law,...
22 July 2004
A national alliance to tackle bullying in schools has
been launched by the Department for Education and Skills. Anti-bullying experts
starting work at the beginning of term in September will...
22 July 2004
The 100th person in Europe to be employed by Bright
Horizons Family Solutions was given a surprise welcome last week. Laura Hart,
who joined the company as a nursery nurse...
22 July 2004
The National Campaign for Children's Radio has called
on regulator Ofcom to create a fund to support radio for children and to
recognise its value in early years development and...
22 July 2004
The wrong photo was printed on page 9 of Nursery World,
10 June, alongside the caption about Little Rainbows, the hotel-based nursery,
in Poole, Dorset. The correct photo to accompany...
22 July 2004
Bogus agencies are increasingly targeting nurseries and
playgroups, using threatening language to trick them into handing over up to
£135 to register under the Data Protection Act. Efforts to extort...