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Eco-classroom makes space more flexible

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A 220,000 project to create an eco-classroom for Year Two at Stanley Infant and Nursery School in Richmond on Thames has won planning permission. The pioneering design is the result of a collaboration between construction company Framework CDM and architects Mark Dudek Associates. The project had to be functional and affordable and cause the least possible disruption to both the school and its environment.

Speaking and listening, reading and writing

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
ICT offers huge support in children's development of communication skills. Let's have a look at some ICT activities that help with communication, language and literacy skills.

Music corner

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Using breath and voices expressively When you want to start group singing, these activities help children warm up their bodies and then sing more freely. Take these gently so that children don't get dizzy by holding their breath for too long.

Let down yet again

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
While I realise classroom assistants do a great job, I feel let down that nursery nurses, who have been trying both nationally and locally for a re-grading for many years - the last in Scotland being 20 years ago - are being bypassed again, with some councils even talking about downgrading them. Nursery nurses have to go to college for a minimum of two years while many classroom assistants train while on the job, yet some could be earning up to 20,000 while we nursery nurses at the top of our scale get just over 13,000.

From the heart

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Reading a young child's feelings and responding appropriately to them can be a tricky business for carers. Dr Richard Woolfson offers some helpful advice We are, by nature, communicative - we all have an innate need to communicate our feelings to others. Right from birth, the new baby expresses her emotions through the use of crying and other non-verbal means.

Philip Lawrence Awards

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  • Wednesday, August 16, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Groups of young people aged 11 to 20 who have made a special contribution to their community this year are being invited to enter the Philip Lawrence Awards. The annual competition is held in memory of headteacher Philip Lawrence, who was stabbed outside his school gates in Ealing, West London, while defending a pupil from attack in 1995. The five core themes in the awards are: combating violence, promoting community safety, advancing racial harmony, demonstrating good citizenship and supporting projects through schools. If you know or are part of a group that would be interested, visit www.4children.org.uk/pla/ by 15 September. The ten winning groups will receive 1,000 to invest in their projects.

Schoolchildren in Scotland

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Schoolchildren in Scotland are to be taught their rights and responsibilities as citizens in subjects across the curriculum. A national framework on education for citizenship from three to 18 years is recommended in the Education for Citizenship in Scotland report launched last week by deputy minister for education and young people Nicol Stephen. He said everything a school does 'should reflect positive citizenship'. The report was developed by a national review group chaired by Professor Pamela Munn of Edinburgh University.

Double awards for budding business

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children aged four to six at an Aberdeenshire primary school have won two awards for their entrepreneurial flair. The pupils at Monquhitter Primary School in Turriff received the awards as a result of their enterprise to raise funds to replace the cushions in the story corner.

Same job, less pay

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  • Wednesday, June 26, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I earn 13,099 a year as a nursery nurse, while the nursery teacher I work alongside earns more than 20,000. Granted, she is experienced, but why should I be carrying out the exact same job as her and be paid 10,000 less?

On course

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  • Wednesday, August 16, 2006
    • | Nursery World
2 October Developing a stimulating learning environment

Move it

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  • Wednesday, April 14, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A child's cluster of schemas is observed in the second in a series of articles by the Pen Green Centre team in dialogue with Chris Athey Chloe, age three years and six months, is in her second year at nursery. We have noticed her transporting objects around the nursery in various ways over a long time.

Fun and games

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Step into squares Include our squares game in a project on shape (see overleaf).

Between 2,000 and 3,000 nursery nurses marched through Glasgow

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Between 2,000 and 3,000 nursery nurses marched through Glasgow on 19 May and then took part in a rally to kick-start the campaign by the public service union Unison to improve their pay, status and career structure. Unison Scotland is calling for a re-grading of all nursery nurses in the public sector, which would see top rates of pay rise from 14,800 to 20,000. Photo Ashley Coombes/ATOM

In the swim

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
It's not as hard as you think to organise an inclusive scheme - and children themselves are often the most creative at adapting activities, says Jane Muir Talking about the inclusive West Oxford Holiday Playscheme, which runs during the school summer holidays, Christina, aged 9, explains, 'We do games that everyone can play, you can use ordinary games and change the rules a bit so anybody can join in, you can make up some too.'

Allegations of inadequacy outrage nursery sector

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  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Childcare organisations have reacted with dismay to comments from the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) that staff in nurseries are in danger of creating 'the next generation of Vicky Pollards'. The National Day Nurseries Association said claims made by Deborah Lawson, the chair of PAT, that nursery staff were poor role models with inadequate language and social skills were 'insulting' and 'ridiculous'.

Two-year-olds - We can meet twos' needs, say schools

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  • Monday, February 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Some specialists have warned that schools will struggle to give two-year-olds sufficient support, but headteachers already caring for twos say they are well placed to succeed. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Portrait gallery

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  • Tuesday, June 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World

Children's great appreciation of their carers shone through in the National Childcare Month art competition run by Nursery World and the Daycare Trust

Staff and children

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  • Wednesday, October 16, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Staff and children at the Birrell Collection Nursery at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh keep seeing double, as there are three sets of twins in the nursery and one on the staff. Staff members Sheena and Sandra Simpson are pictured pairing up with Niamh and Patrick Ritchie (far left and far right), Rose and Olivia Hynd (centre), and Francis and Aidan Fraser (front).

New rights for fathers and adoptive parents

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
New rights for fathers and adoptive parents to paid time off, an extension of paid and unpaid leave for new mothers, and a right for the parents of young children to ask for flexible working conditions, are set out in the Employment Bill being debated in Northern Ireland. The Assembly's employment and learning minister, Carmel Hanna, said the world of work needed to react to the needs of the modern economy and of working parents. She said there would be costs to employers in setting up and administering new arrangements and in facilitating requests for flexible working. 'However, there will be advantages for employers too, with reduced recruitment and retraining costs,' she said.

Early years experience not essential

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The new Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care has been recruiting new officers - but has not specified that they should have any early years experience. A recent advertisement in The Scotsman specified that applicants should have 'extensive experience in a relevant occupational field such as education, social work or the health service', with no mention of early years.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, August 7, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'People found it hard to retain a friendship with me after the allegations were made. Girls I trained with to become a nursery nurse couldn't bear to be my friend any more. My family suffered so much it can't be put into words.' Dawn Reed, on how the paedophile allegations have affected her life, The Guardian

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