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'Teach young children about mental illness'

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children aged five have a good understanding of physical illness but do not have the same grasp of what mental illness is until they are eight or nine years old, a new study has found. Researchers at Surrey University found that younger children did not always distinguish between mental and physical conditions, often considering mental illness to be contagious.

Needs for change

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Hear, hear, Mr Lancaster. Some young children of four who do not wish to read and write and sit at a desk are being labelled as having special educational needs. Then suddenly, if they decide that they to want to read and write at age five, six or seven (if they have not been put off by then), they are proclaimed as not having special educational needs. Would somebody please tell education secretary Charles Clarke that it is the system that has the special needs, and not the children?

The magic circle

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Circle time is intended to serve a highly useful function: providing a quiet, secure period when children are given the chance to sit down and discuss issues that affect them in their everyday lives Help books

Correction

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The telephone number for Early Years Outdoors registrations was omitted from the feature 'A special place' in last week's Nursery World. It is 01962 845811.

New life for an old fire station

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Photo Newsteam/Anita Maric A redundant Warwickshire fire station has re-opened as a village community centre and pre-school providing full-day care, breakfast and after-school clubs, and holiday play schemes. Residents of Tysoe, near Stratford-upon-Avon, clubbed together to form the Tysoe Children's Group to save the building after the fire station closed in 1998. Their ambitious programme of fundraising included fetes, murder mystery evenings, dances, a farmers' market and sponsored abseiling down the church tower.

Broader choice on school menus

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Exotic dishes such as sweet and sour noodles and Mexican chicken fajitas will be on offer in Glasgow's primary schools alongside traditional favourites such as steak pie, potatoes and cabbage, as the city council serves up new menus to promote healthy eating. The 70-dish Fuel Zone Menu, which was piloted in four Glasgow schools earlier this year, will be rolled out to all 197 primary schools and 17 of the city's 32 special educational needs schools between now and the end of October. The council is distributing a newsletter to parents informing them that more than 40,000 pupils will have a choice between a main meal, a vegetarian main meal, a snack, baked potato, sandwich, roll or salad.

Little citizens

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
What does citizenship mean for young children who are only just beginning to socialise? Practitioners need to consider the learning that goes on in their settings Citizenship may not be a term that practitioners immediately associate with the Foundation Stage. It does not appear in the curriculum guidance document and it is not widely used within early years literature. However, when we consider what citizenship, or being a good citizen, actually means in relation to young children, it is very easy to see how important the early years are in laying the foundations for the future.

A historical perspective

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Events in history and the need for social change have influenced the way early childhood approaches have developed. The concept of citizenship, and all it entails can be found at the heart of various approaches to early years education. Each focuses on aspects of developing self-awareness, relationships, rights and responsibilities, and personal wellbeing. Montessori

Can't afford the job

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I love the job I do as a nursery nurse, and the rewards I get from looking after children are unparalleled. However, in this day and age, especially with growing concerns over quality in childcare, I feel we are being neglected as a profession. This is shown in our salary scale. I am 25 and since qualifying four years ago I have not been able to afford to move out of my parents' home. This is not through choice but necessity, as it is not possible for me to commit to a mortgage and other financial responsibilities on the wage I'm earning.

All switched on

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
If you know the nursery needs a face-lift this season but you haven't the time or the budget to redecorate, take a quick look at the little things - they can make all the difference. Even light switches can be improved upon to make a room look more lively: available in Pink Hearts, Camouflage, Paw Prints or Aluminium, these switch covers simply fit directly over any standard 85mm square switch and can be removed when you choose. Priced 4.95 each. And if you still need to brighten up your bin area (see NE spring issue) Urchin's 'industrial strength' storage bins should help. Designed to be especially robust and made from enamelled aluminium in the UK, the bins come in cream, blue or pink and measure 63 x 43cm, priced 42.95. All from Urchin.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'I am not going to play it safe. I hope to be bold enough to make mistakes and big enough to confess to them when I do' Kathleen Marshall, the first-ever commissioner for children and young people in Scotland, speaking at a conference in Edinburgh last week on the first day of her new job

Company profile

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'The Toy Tidy Company is the best new year's resolution I ever made,' says Helen Coppen (left), the company's founder. In January 2002 Helen made the decision to combine her years of experience working for large manufacturing companies, sourcing supplies, with her frustration as a working parent, having to battle at keeping the house tidy, while ensuring her children had easy access to their toys and belongings. While she was researching storage solutions Helen became acutely aware that there was no one shop where you could find a good choice of storage solutions and she decided that a mail order catalogue would be the simplest way of providing the best possible selection of basic items. The company began by sourcing the ubiquitous net bag (featured in NE last autumn) that allows children (and adults) to sort items into groups and see where they are without tipping out the contents. Once she felt she had amassed a broad selection of goods Helen then decided to get 800 catalogues printed to put her idea to the test.

Equipment helpline

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Q I'm keen to go on outings minus the buggy and am looking for a baby carrier that won't strain my back. Any ideas, please? A Back care is extremely important if you are intending to make regular use of a baby carrier. Bushbaby, a company that specialises in outdoor equipment for children, has introduced an Elite Carrier into its range that is suitable for five-month-olds to four-plus and is based on a rucksack harness system.

Childcare 'can't save every deprived area'

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  • Wednesday, May 5, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Bringing in childcare provision will not necessarily regenerate deprived areas, says a new report by the National Centre for Social Research. The report, Childcare: How local markets respond to national initiatives, produced by the NCSR for the Department for Education and Skills, acknowledged that although the Government's concentrating of initiatives such as Neighbourhood Nurseries and children's centres on the 20 per cent most disadvantaged wards in England 'seemed to have succeeded in reaching some key target groups', it did not necessarily lead to new jobs. There remained a lack of employment opportunities for mothers in two of the three deprived areas in the study.

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