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Ofsted 'losing early years experience'

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 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. The vast majority of nursery education inspectors are self-employed and work for contractors such as Nord Anglia, Wessex Associates and Kinderquest, who are shutting down their nursery inspection divisions this summer. The education inspectors will not be transferring to the Early Years Directorate when local authority inspection and registration officers become Ofsted employees under the new regime.

Ambitious plans for top 20 chains

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The 20 biggest nursery chains provide around a tenth of all nursery places in the UK, including local authority provision, according to a survey in the supplement Nursery Chains, published with Nursery World this week. The groups in Nursery Chains' first-ever league table provide more than 33,000 places across the UK between them, nearly twice as much as the number provided by local authority nurseries in England.

Promises to children in parties' responses

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Stringent monitoring and the establishment of a Children's Commissioner for Scotland are among the methods the Scottish National Party would use to put the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice if successful in the General Election. The party was responding to the charity Children in Scotland last week, which called on political parties to express their views on issues ranging from child poverty and inequality, to the provision of parental leave.

The bigger picture

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Which nursery chains have the most places? Alison Mercer investigates In this issue of Nursery Chains, we have for the first time in the directory listed the total number of registered places provided by each group. This gives us a picture of how the biggest groups in the country compare.

Scotland provides good care model

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years good practice in Scotland should be followed by the rest of Britain, according to a leading early years expert. Professor Tina Bruce, visiting professor at the University of North London, has praised the early years curriculum in Scotland for its emphasis on learning through play and recognition of the importance of child observation.

Angry staff poised for strike action

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nursery workers were due to hold a one-day strike this week in support of a fair pay and grading claim against Ealing Council in west London. As Nursery World went to press, the strike was expected to take place on Wednesday 6 June, with all four council nurseries closing - Disraeli, Hanbury, Hanwell and Windmill.

Case study: exploring structure

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Troy is a three-year-old boy at Woodlands Park Nursery Centre who loves being active - riding bikes, kicking footballs and running in the garden. He is using his body and movement to explore large areas of space. Troy's main interest in his block play has been to stack blocks up high and sometimes to knock them down and see them scatter all over the floor. Troy's key worker, Judy, has recently noticed a new preoccupation in his building. After building a tower with the blocks, Troy put a toy person on the top. Later, he saw a large structure another child had built. He then went into the garden and gathered a handful of small stones. He came in and placed the stones carefully between the raised bumps of the bricks.

In brief...'Tried hard, could have done better'

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Tried hard, could have done better' could have been on the Government's end of term report, according to David Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT). Speaking at the NAHT's annual conference last week, Mr Hart said that teachers had been promised pressure and support in 'equal measure', but pressure was paramount, with schools being named and shamed, and monthly initiatives churned out.

In brief...Crisis in teacher recruitment and retention

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Few schools have not been hit by the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, according to Theresa May, shadow education secretary, also speaking at the NAHTconference (see above). Arguing that Government figures fail to reflect the depth of the crisis by claiming that there are only 2,500 vacancies, the MP referred to a survey in The Times Educational Supplement which showed there were 10,000 free teacher positions in secondary schools alone. She said stories of schools with classes of 90 or 94 children and heads forced to use unqualified staff were being dismissed by ministers.

In brief...International children's festival at Haddo House

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An international children's festival is being held in the grounds of Haddo House in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, this month. The Kaleidoscope Festival is a week-long event of theatre performances and activities for children, and aims to provide a mix of cultural, educational and creative experiences for four-to 12-year-olds. The festival runs from 11 to15 June and costs 7.50. For details call 01568 766385.

Hebridean centre gets outdoor site

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Children, parents and playgroup staff from the island of Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides will no longer have to make a 60-mile round trek to access safe outdoor play, thanks to a newly-built room and play area given them in a local community centre. Previously, children at the Croileagan Bhearnaraigh Gaelic pre-school were required to make the long journey from Great Bernera to Stornoway - the main town on the Isle of Lewis, to which Great Bernera is joined by bridge - in order to play safely outside, but now the school has managed to secure a room and outdoor play area at the community centre in Breacleit, Great Bernera.

Two-year-old Connor Gormley swapped his toys for a paintbrush

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Two-year-old Connor Gormley swapped his toys for a paintbrush at a May fair held in London's St Katherine's Dock last week. The toddler tried his hand at painting a mural at the event, which was organised in aid of the NSPCC and opened by the former 'EastEnders' TV star Michelle Collins. Photo Michael Melia

Lucy Henderson, Emma Storr, Carrie Todd, Abby MacTaggart and Rebecca Simcox show off badges they made as part of National Smile Week

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Lucy Henderson, Emma Storr, Carrie Todd, Abby MacTaggart and Rebecca Simcox show off badges they made as part of National Smile Week. 'Be sporty, but be safe' was the theme of this year's campaign to raise awareness into dental health, with children as well as adults being encouraged to wear mouth guards when playing sport. The children, from various playgroups around Oban, also enjoyed having their faces painted and playing with soft toys at the Oban-based Atlantis Leisure sports centre.

Additional language speakers

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  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Far from being a disadvantage, learning more than one language can have a wealth of benefits and, in normally developing children, does not create any problems at all. In the UK, we are traditionally very bad at learning other languages, but more than half of the world's population speaks more than one language.

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