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Ofsted 'losing early years experience'

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  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted has come under fire following concerns that there will be a huge loss of experience and expertise in the inspection of early years education with the advent of its Early Years Directorate in September, as it is increasingly taken over by former local authority staff with a social services background.

People & places

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  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
For your guide to the who, what and where of nursery chains look no further than our directory * This list includes details of all the private and independent chains of nurseries, kindergartens, playgroups and creches known to Nursery World. Under the term 'chain' we have included any company that owns two or more nurseries and some that have only one nursery, but have imminent plans for expansion.

Brick work

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  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Playing with construction sets is a vital component in children's mathematical development. Julian Grenier explains how to build learning opportunities

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

'Register nannies after the election'

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An independent trade union has called on the next Government to ensure that no childcarers in Britain are unregistered. The Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN), a division of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT), said last week that it wants the next Government to end the exception which means nannies are the sole form of unregistered and unregulated childcare in Britain. As part of its election manifesto PANN said it wanted the next Government to set up a national register of all childcarers, which would include around 90,000 nannies as well as childminders and daycare staff.

Round and round

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Circle time can be used across all six areas of learning, as seen in these examples from Here We Go Round - Quality Circle Time This is the way we brush our hair

More party promises for the early years

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Education and the national health service became election issues last week as the main political parties continued to set out their stalls with pledges for the next five years. The Liberal Democrats focused on the early years and renewed their promise to invest more in education, saying this was the key to recruiting more teachers, cutting class sizes and employing more early years specialists. They want to fund 1,000 early years specialists to work with nursery schools, increase funding for books and equipment by an average 1,250 per primary school and 4,250 per secondary school, and see average class sizes for all five-to 11-year-olds cut to 25 pupils.

Council backpedals on teachers' input

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Private nurseries and playgroups have persuaded Edinburgh Council to take a more flexible approach after expressing their dissatisfaction with the council's policy of requiring substantial teacher involvement if they are to access the Scottish Executive's pre-school education grant. A council report last week said that the 115 partner providers were finding it increasingly difficult to meet the teacher-involvement requirement because of the cost and the lack of teachers with early years experience.

Basic patterns

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Don't overlook music in your 'pattern' project, as rhythms or repeated patterns form its very basis. Note

For your self

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
STORYTELLING WITH CHILDREN. By Nancy Mellon.

New posts to boost nurseries association

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* The National Day Nurseries Association is set to expand its services throughout England by making a number of new appointments. It is looking to recruit a training development co-ordinator and six regional fieldworkers to further its work and develop closer links between day nurseries and Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.

Special expertise

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
With a growing number of special needs posts on the horizon, Patricia Slatcher outlines what it takes to be a co-ordinator Hundreds of new jobs within the Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships are set to come on stream in the next few years. All EYDCPs have been told they must employ a business and finance manager, one specialist early years teacher for every ten settings providing the Foundation Stage and one special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) for every 20 non-maintained settings, by 2004. They are also being encouraged to take on a childcare marketing manager to inform parents about Working Families Tax Credit and local childcare.

'Topsy and Tim' author Jean Adamson

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - 'Topsy and Tim' author Jean Adamson officially opened Just Learning's 20th day nursery in Cambourne, west of Cambridge. Pat Wright, manager of the 100-place, state-of-the-art nursery, was delighted that Mrs Adamson had brought some of her books to give to the children. She said, 'Topsy and Tim books are firm favourites with children and parents. They help pre-schoolers to explore topics such as hospital visits and new babies in the family.'

Staff 'key to quality'

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
National Childcare Week 20-27 May. Listening to children and parents Well-trained staff and high-quality settings are the key to ensuring that childcare directly benefits children, according to a report by the Daycare Trust.

Repeat performance

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Expand children's conception of pattern by exploring the design and repetition in actions and events, writes Lena Engel A pattern can consist of colours, shapes, objects or events that occur in a particular order. The cycle of the children's day at nursery is represented by a set of routines that are repeated again and again, just like a pattern. This system of regulating the events of the day helps children to predict what will happen next. It encourages them to feel secure and to behave in ways expected of them. It helps them to develop independence skills, as they become active participants in the routine tasks that are offered to them. The day at nursery is organised in relation to the clock and children can learn about time passing. In a similar way, the cycle of the seasons follows a recurring pattern.

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