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Nursery nurses carry a fuller load

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  • Wednesday, September 19, 2001
    • | Nursery World
In response to Tracey Knight's letter (30 August) about a nursery nurse's salary and responsibilities, I take great offence at her implication that nursery nurses do not have any responsibility for curriculum planning or children's welfare. Has she not realised that nursery nursing has moved on? Our job now incorporates care and education, which means we plan and deliver a quality curriculum. To ensure our curriculum is balanced, we also carry out regular observations to help us in our assessment of every child's needs. These findings are recorded and reported to parents and outside agencies who may be involved with the child as well as with the teachers of the primary schools which they will attend.

Give us credit

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  • Wednesday, May 8, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I am a qualified nursery nurse, working as both a teaching assistant and nursery nurse in a primary school. I studied for two years to obtain my qualification and my training included 13 visits to my placement by my college assessor, where I set up and implemented lessons, then incorporated their outcome in future planning. Eighty per cent of my child observations were marked as distinctions. In my existing job, I am involved in all areas of the teacher's job, including planning, attending parent consultations, contributing to individual education plans and so on.

DCE is NNEB, OK?

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  • Wednesday, May 8, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I am in my second year of studying the Diploma in Childcare and Education but have encountered a problem - employers don't recognise the qualification. On the many occasions I have had to explain about the Diploma, people say, 'It's a shame you're not doing the NNEB, it's a good qualification.' The Diploma has replaced the NNEB and is worth three A-levels. It is also a higher qualification than the NNEB, but it does not appear to be recognised as such, if at all.

Partnership salute

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  • Wednesday, May 8, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I felt compelled to write in response to the feature about Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships ('Fingers and thumbs?', 18 April). As the owner and manager of a private day nursery for the past 15 years, I have seen a lot of changes and would like to say that my local EYDCP, the Telford and Wrekin Early Years Partnership, has made a real difference to both the quality and quantity of early years provision in our area, through staff training and by supporting providers of early years provision in this area.

Second annual Scottish Education awards

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  • Wednesday, March 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The second annual Scottish Education awards have honoured Inchyra Nursery School in Grangemouth, Falkirk, and Kirkhill Nursery at Kirkhill Primary School in Aberdeen. Inchyra was a runner-up in the 'New Ideas in Learning' category, while Kirkhill Nursery was a runner-up for 'Raising Basic Standards'. Presenting the awards this month, First Minister Jack McConnell said, 'I want every school in Scotland to be a centre of excellence. The achievements I have heard about today show that, with commitment and hard work, this can happen.'

Nursery activities

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  • Wednesday, March 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Develop children's language skills by setting up a talk table, as Lucia Battiste suggests Planned learning intentions

All inclusive

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  • Wednesday, September 19, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A topic on light and dark can have special meaning for children with special needs provided it is planned in such a way as to include everyone, particularly children with impaired vision, who may have differing perceptions and experiences of light and dark. Practitioners should, therefore, ensure that these children can contribute to discussions and participate in activities in ways that are appropriate to them.

Wales to teach less formally

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  • Wednesday, September 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Plans for a new foundation stage for three-to seven-year-olds in Wales which mark a shift away from a formal curriculum towards an emphasis on learning through play have been revealed by the Welsh Assembly. The proposals were published in a policy document, Wales: The Learning Country, last week. It was described by Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, as 'the first comprehensive strategic statement on education and learning in Wales covering the whole age range from early years to adulthood'.

In brief...Young children and advertising

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  • Wednesday, September 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Many young children do not realise that the thousands of advertisements they are bombarded with are trying to sell them something. Dr Mark Blades from the University of Sheffield presented findings based on research involving 180 children aged six, eight and ten, to last week's British Psychological Society Developmental and Education Sections conference in Worcester. He said some six-year-olds thought TV commercials simply provided the viewer with a break to get a drink or go to the toilet, while eight-year-olds thought the adverts told viewers about what products are available in shops. But it wasn't until the age of ten that many children understood that advertisements were there to persuade them to buy something.

Childminders and the NVQ: In evidence

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  • Thursday, March 20, 2003
    • | Nursery World

When your workplace is your home, how do you gather evidence and get yourself assessed for an NVQ 3? Meg Jones talks to successful candidates and advisors

Listen here

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  • Wednesday, May 1, 2002
    • | Nursery World
You can tune the ears of babies and toddlers to picking out sounds and matching them to what they are seeing and doing, as Jennie Lindon explains The impressive sensory skills of human babies are now far better recognised by researchers. If all is going well, babies are alert with all their senses from the very beginning. They are definitely hearing sounds as well as making them.

New nursery may rise from ashes

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  • Wednesday, March 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Aa nursery school destroyed in a blaze during the firefighters' dispute last November could be replaced with a new building on a different site under plans drawn up by Glasgow City Council. Kinning Park Nursery School, which dated from the 1860s and was attended by 80 part-time and eight full-time pupils, was gutted on the night of 26 November in a suspected arson attack.

Scots would give families more help

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  • Wednesday, September 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Irene McGugan MSP, Shadow Deputy Minister for Children and Education. Further to the news story about the cost of childcare and the Scottish National Party's position (9 August), I would like to comment more fully on this issue.

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