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Play policy for Wales

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Jan Hutt, minister for health and social services at the National Assembly for Wales, has approved a play policy for Wales that will be published in the autumn. The policy is a broad statement of principles, but a detailed strategy will also be put together with practitioners over the coming year. Speaking at the conference 'Spirit of Adventure Play is Alive and Kicking' organised by Play Wales recently, she said, 'The policy is founded on the principle of Article 31 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, recognising the importance of play. It goes on to state that play is the learning process through which human kind has developed. In the words of Lloyd George "Play is nature's training for life."

Gallery of nursery winners

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - * Nursery staff enjoyed a black-tie occasion when Ravenstone House Pre-Preparatory School and Nursery Group had its first annual awards ceremony. The event was held in the 18th-century Sculpture Gallery at Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire at the end of June. Awards were presented to nursery nurses in recognition of their contribution to their nurseries in different categories based around curriculum, care and personality, including 'most creative play ideas', 'best-groomed nursery nurses' and 'best relationship with parents'.

Home delivery

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Is the Government once again pushing nanny registration out of the back door? Mary Evans looks at the arguments against its latest plans for parents to claim tax relief. Ministers might have expected the Government's plan to extend the help it gives parents with childcare costs to include carers working in the family home to be applauded. Instead, it has been met with accusations of prejudice and discrimination.

Life lines

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Animals set the action for lively and imaginative learning in a new round-up of stories for young children reviewed by Alison Boyle Down in the Daisies. written by Lucy Coats and illustrated by Emily Bolam. (Orion, 9.99)

View Point

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Anne Longfield, chief executive of Kids' Clubs Network As every working parent with school age children knows, the summer school holidays are almost upon us. Long able to instil a sense of fear and forboding, the summer break from school can often signify six weeks of juggling childcare and work, favours from relatives - and for some parents, worry.

Hidden Gold

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Young sleuths will enjoy tracking down precious treasure - and the trail won't bust your budget, says Hilary White Suggest a treasure hunt to a group of children and the response will invariably be one of noisy enthusiasm! I recently asked some young people why they liked treasure hunts and their replies ranged from, 'I like seeing if I can work out the clues' to 'they're fun' and (very important, this!) 'the treasure'.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'The introduction to school is very sensitive for most children. If children start too early, they might feel things are too difficult. That might carry on for a few years and could be quite disabling.' Jack Laidlaw, convener of the Church of Scotland's committee on education, who believes the school starting age should be raised to six, Scotland on Sunday

Plenty to declare

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
An early years centre is giving its special needs children safe passage to school with a handy aid explained by Helen James and Dennise French We are an inclusive early years centre in London, funded jointly by Islington education, regeneration and social services, and have six places for children with severe and complex needs. We know what it's like to receive a huge wad of medical information about a child and then be really worried about how to cope! We also knew, before we developed our passports, that primary schools were concerned about how they would manage with some of the children that we were sending on to them.

Set the agenda

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Stop your meetings becoming moaning sessions with careful planning and preparation. Mary Evans shows how Are your staff meetings a forum for sharing innovative ideas and exchanging observations about working practices in a constructive way? Or do they degenerate into a 'staff moan?'

Through the door

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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Spooky castles, dragons, rock pools and forests...Jane Drake explains how her school's staff took their children on a magical multi-sensory experience Nursery children at Cottingley Primary School in Leeds were taken to a world beyond their wildest dreams recently, and they didn't even have to leave the school building! Staff had great fun transforming the school hall into an imaginary world over a weekend with the help of students from Leeds University and the support of local businesses.

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