23 September 2004
The decision to change the way SATS are carried out at
Key Stage 1 in England's primary schools is good news for Foundation Stage
practitioners. Greater emphasis on teacher assessment...
23 September 2004
Teachers and early years practitioners have welcomed
the Government's decision to give more weight to teacher assessment and less to
testing at Key Stage 1 and emphasised that it will...
23 September 2004
(Photograph) - Children at Hoppits Nursery in East
Sussex enjoy an activity session run by Leaps and Bounds. The 30-minute weekly
programme helps children practise their balancing, climbing, rolling and...
23 September 2004
'This is the DfES goose that has laid the golden egg.
No longer will capable seven-year-olds decide they will fail forever, having
done badly in the old SATS.' Gwen Evans,...
23 September 2004
By 2015 children's centres could be available to nearly
all families, children would stay there until they start school at six and
there would be fewer private day nurseries and...
23 September 2004
(Photograph) - An ambitious planting programme at
Tannadice Nursery in Angus has paid off with what head teacher Margaret Pollok
describes as a 'magnificent' wildflower meadow. She said, 'The whole...
23 September 2004
Parents will have a chance to put questions to
children's minister Margaret Hodge at one of two 'big conversations' organised
by the National Family Parenting Institute as part of its...
23 September 2004
Carers and parents are beingurged to check children for
threadworms during Threadworm Action Month. Around 40 per cent of children
under age ten are likely to be afflicted, and symptoms...
23 September 2004
Questions about the APELqualification (Accreditation of
Prior Experience and Learning) will be dealt with on a special weekday helpline
being launched by Duo Consulting. The consultancy, which developed APEL, says...
23 September 2004
(Photograph) - Happitots Day Nursery recruited 'Dick
and Dom in da Bungalow' stars Richard McCourt and Dominic Wood to officially
open their newly expanded facility at Glasgow airport, which has...