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Fish oil diet linked to calmer behaviour

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Children from three Sure Start centres in Durham have shown 'significant advances' in their behaviour, concentration and level of parental bonding after participating in the most recent trial of fish oil supplements. The study, published yesterday (7 December), involved 65 children who had challenging behaviour and problems with attention and concentration.

Organisations unite to lobby on proposals

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Early Childhood Forum, co-ordinated by the National Children's Bureau (NCB), has joined forces with leading children's organisations to form a new childcare coalition in response to the Childcare Bill. The ECF, which has 48 member organisations around the UK, including the National Day Nurseries Association and the National Childminding Association, signed a joint briefing giving their feedback on the Bill, with the NSPCC, Barnardo's, the autism charity Treehouse, Contact a Family and the Special Education Consortium, and will work together on lobbying the Government.

On call

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  • Wednesday, June 27, 2001
    • | Nursery World
You may have been intrigued by a large advertisement in Nursery World in May seeking 'an emergency nanny to provide childcare at short notice around the M25 area'. Rather than whizzing around in a van on some motorway call-out service, the successful candidate, says Family Matters, the advertiser, doubles as a nanny and a childcare advisor. Family Matters provides childcare and advice to its corporate clients, meaning back-up care if a staff member's usual nanny or childminder is unavailable, and help in finding childcare for any employees who need it. So when the emergency nanny isn't whizzing around the motorway to look after children, she can work from home on administrative tasks with a computer supplied by the company. The previous emergency nanny jobholder worked her way into a permanent office post as one of Family Matters' six childcare advisors. If this idea catches on elsewhere there could be yet another route for nannies to take their job options beyond the M25. To find out more contact Cherry at Family Matters on 07711 712 564.

To the point...

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says it's too much to expect Sure Start to change society, or social services One thing we know for sure. Sure Start is a good thing. What we also know for sure is that the best childcare in the world can't cure the worst places in the world. Why would anyone think that Sure Start could make Murder Mile a better place to live? Why would anyone think that a child born into a dangerous milieu will be saved by Sure Start from the assault on its wellbeing that everyday life will bring?

A parent's guide to (avoiding) worksheets

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  • Wednesday, May 25, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Bookshops and newsagents sell a large range of workbooks and worksheets and parents can feel as though they will not be doing their best for their child unless they buy them and work through them with their children. The problem with worksheets is that they can turn learning, which young children find such fun, into a slog or chore. While time spent with your child is vital to their learning and development, there are many more useful things that you can be doing to help. The guidance says the workbook activities will help my child to achieve the early learning goals. Isn't this a good idea?

Those were the days

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  • Wednesday, June 27, 2001
    • | Nursery World
What was it that made the golden age of nannying so great? Lindsey Blythe compares a nanny's lot then and now

Our recommended choice

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  • Wednesday, May 25, 2005
    • | Nursery World
DOING YOUR EARLY YEARS RESEARCH PROJECT: a step-by-step guide. By Guy Roberts-Holmes. (17.99, Paul Chapman). Reviewed by Nicola Gray, BA nursery management student This book goes through the whole process of conducting an early years research study. It is an easy, logical read with a user-friendly contents page.

Make believe

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Observing children engaged in role play can give early years staff some revealing insights and ideas for changes in practice, as Sue Rogers and Julie Evans found Young children's preoccupation with role play is widely recognised. Indeed, research studies show that children aged three to five engage in role play more than any other kind of play. Role play can help children to develop social competence, to explore language and ideas about the world, to appreciate the perspectives of others, and to develop empathy. Through their imaginative excursions, we see children examine concepts of space, place and time, as they move beyond belief into the exciting world of make-believe (White, J, TheChild's Mind, Routledge Falmer 2002). In other words, role play can help children to learn important life skills, many of which are uniquely human.

In brief...Education minister Jack McConnell

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Education minister Jack McConnell has singled out Patna Primary School and Nursery Class in East Ayrshire for praise following a glowing report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education. HMIE praised the school and nursery class's committed and experienced teachers, nursery nurses, classroom assistant and special educational needs auxiliary, and also commended the school's arrangements for communicating with parents, which included an 'excellent' nursery handbook. Mr McConnell said, 'The ethos of this school is particularly strong, with the stimulating and caring atmosphere being highlighted in particular by HMIE.'

In brief...Young chefs in 42 primary schools in Scotland

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Young chefs in 42 primary schools in Scotland will be given lessons in healthy cooking and baking through a pilot scheme in Clackmannan and North Lanarkshire, announced during Focus on Food week last week and backed by 197,300 from the Scottish Executive. Deputy health minister Malcolm Chisholm said, 'If Scotland is to truly end its unenviable reputation as one of the unhealthiest nations in the western world, then we must teach children at an early age not just about the benefits of healthy eating but how to cook well-balanced meals.'

Parents entitled to defer start in school

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Parents whose winter-born four-year-olds are not ready to cope with starting primary school will no longer have to plead special needs in order to secure an extra year of free nursery education, following an announcement from deputy education minister Nicol Stephen last week. From next year, all children who are eligible to start school aged four-and-a-half, but were born in January or February, will be entitled to an extra year of publicly funded pre-school education if the school, parents and local authority decide that it is in their best interests to defer entry to primary school. They will then start school a year later, aged five-and-a-half.

Top of the agenda

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
To see the issue of childcare thrust suddenly to attention where it was unconsidered before, look at Ireland. Simon Vevers reports Government childcare initiatives have been rolled out with almost relentless regularity in the UKin recent years. But in Ireland far less attention has been paid to the issue - until now, when it has been thrust to the heart of political debate and is likely to be central to the forthcoming budget on 7 December.

Playing it fair

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  • Wednesday, June 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Learning how to tackle discrimination and promote equal opportunities is a key part of a childcarer's role. Simon Vevers lists courses and organisations that can help in this area Children in Scotland is running a one-day workshop on:

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