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Primary concern

    News
  • Wednesday, February 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Are private daycare providers threatened by schools - and do schools want to compete with them? Simon Vevers tests the water When the Government gave the green light to schools to develop full daycare on site as part of a package of extended services, the schools were urged to work with local private providers and not duplicate provision.

Daycare Trust signs up new director

    News
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The successor to Stephen Burke as the director of the Daycare Trust was named last week as Susan Crane. Ms Crane, who will go by the title of chief executive, previously worked as an international development consultant, advising British, European and international non-government organisations (NGOs).

Eco-Friendly

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  • Monday, August 19, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Holly Grange Montessori Nursery in Lymm, Cheshire is working towards becoming an Eco-School and going fully plastic-free.

Software review

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  • Wednesday, July 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
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Thinking it through

    News
  • Tuesday, July 8, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners must consider whether a mainstream or special setting is best for a particular child on an individual basis, says Valerie Driscoll

The Big Picture - Giant art attack

    News
  • Friday, April 13, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Children at Ready Teddy Go nursery at Epsom Methodist Church in Surrey got creative building a sculpture of the giant from Julia Donaldson's book The Smartest Giant in Town.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'My daughter felt under so much pressure that she used to wake up with nightmares about the tests.' Parent Suzanne Munza at the launch of a national campaign, Stop the SATS, against the school tests taken by seven-, 11- and 14-year-olds, at a conference held at a London secondary school, BBC Online

Vote for nannies

    News
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Who should get the nannies' vote in the general election? A quick glance at the parties' promises sees the Conservatives offering families a 50 a week tax credit per under-five child regardless of the type of childcare they use - favouring the 'informal', unqualified carer, or granny babysitter - so, less work for nannies there. The Liberal Democrats would implement Labour's plans on more free nursery hours and wraparound care - so, less work for nannies there. And it's taken Labour eight years, until this month, to give parents any financial help with employing a nanny, via the childcare approval scheme (see page 4), and even that is voluntary and nothing like the nanny register nannies and campaigners have been demanding for years - so, who's holding their breath for more?

National Bookstart Day

    News
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Pirates Ahoy! was the theme of this year's National Bookstart Day, and children from Greenwich were joined by celebrity mum Gail Porter for the launch at the National Maritime Museum. Organisers Booktrust held a range of events for families across the UK, including song and storytelling sessions, rhyme times, games and pirate themed adventures. For more information visit www.booktrust.org.uk.

A fresh stage for the early years recruitment campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A fresh stage of the early years recruitment campaign will get under way this month with adverts on national television alongside a range of local initiatives. According to Sure Start, the new round of advertising 'aims to provide a new national image for the sector - one of a skilled, imaginative, intelligent and competent workforce, and hopes to attract more men, people from ethnic minorities, older people and those with disabilities'. Since the campaign started three years ago, 160,000 people have contacted the national order line for recruitment packs and about 15 per cent of them have found jobs in the sector within six months .

Appropriate reply

    News
  • Wednesday, February 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I deeply regret that Pat Field (Letters, 7 February) read my feature 'Sitting uncomfortably' as a blunt criticism of early years practitioners. It certainly was not my intention to 'blame practitioners for not understanding the subtleties in the wording of "as appropriate" that completes the early learning goal of "maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly...".' I suggested triple-underlining the word in order to highlight how much we all need to discuss and reflect on realistic expectations for young children. Some early years prac- titioners have felt that they should focus on sit-down activities or felt pressured, against their professional judgement, to act as if proper learning only happens indoors. Young children can maintain attention and they can concentrate.

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