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Trained workforce is a spending goal

    News
  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A commitment to raising the number of early years and childcare workers who hold qualifications is among the Scottish Executive's spending plans for the next three years, presented to the Scottish Parliament last week. The budget report for 2005-2008 states a commitment to improving the skills and qualifications of the childcare workforce by increasing the proportion of early years, childcare and support staff meeting qualification requirements from 66 per cent in September 2003 to 85 per cent by January 2009.

Spread the word

    News
  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
With fierce competition in the sector, settings need to publicise their business. Rosie Pressland shows how to aim sky-high The childcare sector has never known such growth, and with that unprecedented growth has come greater competition. Now more than ever, settings need to sharpen up their marking techniques if they are to keep ahead of the competition.

Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London

    News
  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London, when more than 1,000 local people took part in the fourth annual Quaggy Carnival on 26 June. The carnival started with a colourful parade through the streets that finished at Morden Mount Primary School. Revellers enjoyed live music and dance, face painting, Indian head massage and DJ youth projects. The event was organised by the Quaggy Development Trust, a local regeneration organisation, with support from Sure Start West Greenwich.

Play packs made for crisis farm children

    News
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A Devon play association has come up with a pack chockfull of activity ideas, games and resources for children confined to farms isolated by the foot and mouth crisis. Jackie Colby, play development worker for the Teignbridge Play Network, which covers south Devon and parts of Dartmoor, said that the association decided to produce the pack at its monthly meeting. Those present started talking about the various out-of-school clubs and playschemes in the area which were currently not viable because children were unable to attend them under restrictions imposed because of the foot and mouth epidemic.

In brief...The Welsh Assembly is at

    News
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Welsh Assembly is at the cutting edge of children's policies for the UK, the Welsh minister for children, Jane Hutt, told a meeting of the Rhondda Cynon Taff's Sure Start scheme. She told delegates that a Cabinet sub-committee for children and young people in Wales had met for the first time and that it would drive forward the Assembly's agenda for children, which includes appointing Peter Clarke as children's commissioner. 'We are living at a very exciting time for children's services in Wales,' said Ms Hutt.

Ongoing monitoring and research

    News
  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
As the Kate Greenaway Nursery School has expanded, we have aimed for every new initiative to be supported by evidence of best practice from elsewhere and shaped by the views of local families. Although it seems daunting at first to have to keep yet more evidence and even more records, planning a simple and elegant system in advance helps a great deal in the long run. The first information that Kate Greenaway needed was evidence about the effectiveness of what it was already doing. In September 2003, when I took up my post, the nursery had just emerged from a difficult period. Through meeting with other colleagues, I have learned that nursery schools can be very vulnerable. Difficulties in recruiting a headteacher, falling birthrates, and the lack of understanding that many local authorities show towards nursery education can all put a nursery school in a shaky position.

By numbers

    News
  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Labour's plans for a further massive expansion of early years provision seem to be putting quantity before quality - again. Simon Vevers hears what leading figures in the sector think the effects could be An alarmist article in the Guardian (8 July) suggested that nurseries were taking in two-year-olds and churning out anti-social, aggressive children.

Tyred Out

    Other
  • Monday, May 14, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Children at Bright Horizons’ Asquith Barley Barn Enfield Day Nursery have been taking part in a number of gardening activities as part of the organisation’s Green Gardeners enhancement.

Learning & Development: Going green

    Features
  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Millington Road Nursery School, Cambridge, established its environmental action group in 2004. The group includes staff, parents and trustees.

Case study: clear evidence

    News
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
At Brearley Nursery School in Birmingham taking photographs has evolved from being 'a nice thing to do' to a 'very powerful tool' in documentation, says head teacher Sue Bennett. The 104-place school was inspired to develop its use of photography following a study week in Reggio Emilia, attended by Sue and deputy head Maureen Cryan, and a visit by all staff to the Reggio 100 Languages of Children Exhibition.

New early years social networking site

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A social networking website called the Unique Child Network has been launched by early years specialist Wendy Ellyatt, who said it focuses on 'the vital importance of the early years and the need to protect the rights of each child as a joyful and uniquely predisposed learner'.

The Big Picture - Branch out

    News
  • Monday, November 2, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The Great Big Tree Climbing Co is working with schools to offer an exciting non-competitive adventure for children from the age of six.

Job cuts dampen joy at new funding

    News
  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Increased spending on childcare is an encouraging sign that the Government is tackling child poverty but cuts in civil service jobs could undermine the strategy, the Child Poverty Action Group warned last week.

Summer-born children at risk of ADHD misdiagnosis

    News
  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Summer-born children are more likely to be diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a study has warned, raising fears that the condition is routinely being misdiagnosed.

Time for change

    News
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Further to the news story about the amount of compensation for Lisa Potts (8 February), not only is it a disgrace that she received such a pathetic amount of money as compensation for her horrific injuries, but it is an even bigger disgrace that she was earning a salary of 8,500 before the attack. You could earn more money than that cleaning offices. I know from more than 20 years as a nursery nurse that it has to be a vocation rather than a job. Why else would you do it with such poor monetary rewards? But how can we carry on treating childcarers in this manner? Is it any wonder there is now a huge shortfall in the profession?

Nurseries warned over cash scam

    News
  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Bogus agencies are increasingly targeting nurseries and playgroups, using threatening language to trick them into handing  over up to 135 to register under the Data Protection Act.

Learning & Development: Assessment - Right on

    Features
  • Monday, February 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Whatever new criteria are given to us, assessment remains an essential expression of our values as practitioners and defines how we support children as learners, argues Jan Dubiel of Early Excellence.

Traveller's checks

    News
  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Who pays what when you work abroad? Jackie Cosh checks it out You are settled with a family. You like the children, get on well with the parents and have a good network of local friends. Then the family announces they are moving abroad, and would like you to come too.

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