5 September 2002
In your work with young children, do you place enough
stress on promoting physical development? The focus on communication, language
and literacy and mathematical development in particular means that physical...
5 September 2002
A leading early years organisation has called for the
Criminal Records Bureau to make early years staff a similar priority as it has
teachers in England over recent weeks. The...
5 September 2002
Angry parents in Hackney have held a 'festival of
resistance' to protest at the closure of the third council-run day nursery in
the London borough in the past 18 months....
5 September 2002
(Photograph) - Fears of further sectarian intimidation
of girl pupils going to the Holy Cross Primary School in the Ardoyne district
of north Belfast, as depicted in this mural on...
5 September 2002
A Government fire safety campaign 'Know your plan. Get
out alive' to be launched later this month aims to ensure children and adults
know how to get out safely from...
5 September 2002
Government figures published last week show there is
now one computer for every 9.7 pupils in primary schools in England, compared
to one for every 17.6 in 1998. For secondary...
5 September 2002
The RNID information line telephone number is 0808 808
0123, not 0808 9808 0123 as stated on page 5 of last week's Nursery
World.
5 September 2002
'Labour's national childcare strategy and its Sure
Start programme have a core idea. Detached from family, it suggests, children
will thrive; in social programmes they will realise themselves, unimpeded by...
5 September 2002
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Megan Fowler of
Craigiebarns Nursery in Dundee puts the finishing touches to her clay tern.
Children at the day nursery have been playing their part in a...
5 September 2002
Children as young as three in north-east England have
had their first driving lesson in a pioneering project to improve road safety.
Redcar and Cleveland Council launched the scheme last...