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Schools are hub of rural communities

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The development of schools as the hub of the community is fast becoming a key strand of the strategy to deliver integrated services to children and families in isolated rural areas of Scotland. The issue was debated last Friday at the seminar The School as the Hub of the Community, organised by Children in Scotland and aimed at drawing together the experiences of practitioners and sharing best practice.

It's official

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
APEL recognises that experience counts. Mary Evans talks to some of the first practitioners to have completed the award When Sorrel Ayres, a mother of three, started thinking about moving into early years management, she faced the daunting prospect of trying to juggle an NVQ course with her family and work commitments. 'I had enrolled on an NVQ at the local college and then the APEL award came up. It has been brilliant,' she says.

Let it flow

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
What causes a child to stammer and how should families and early years staff help a child deal with this speech impairment? Jackie Cosh explains the condition and outlines where to turn for guidance About five per cent of children under five will go through a phase of stammering which currently equates to around 188,000 cases in the UK.

Editor's letter

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
We hope that Nursery Topics - Bags and boxes will provide readers with the inspiration to plan the richest of projects from the simplest of resources. How many times have we seen a child deriving more pleasure from the cardboard box than the present that came in it. Cardboard boxes - the bigger the better - and bags of any shape, size and description provide a great basis for an early years project. They are cheap and readily available and, of course, they are the perfect open-ended resources, giving children endless opportunity for imaginative and role play. Ruth Thomson

Talk it through

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The leading theories about how young children acquire and develop language, and how early years workers can use them, are outlined by Tricia David Young children become amazingly proficient communicators during the first three years of life. As the Birth to Three Matters framework points out, they use 'the hundred languages of children' - body language (including facial expressions and dance); sign language (their own and family inventions as well as an officially recognised sign language); painting, drawing and mark-making; and oral expression. They have been acutely active listeners since their days in the womb, where they learned to recognise the speech patterns, tunes and tones of the languages used in their home contexts.

Childcarers ask for Ofsted partnership

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations and practitioners have broadly welcomed Ofsted's plans for minimal notice inspections, a new grading system and greater reliance on self-evaluation and quality assurance schemes. But the inspection service has been warned that successful implementation of its proposals, outlined in the consultation The Future of Early Years Inspections, will require effective communication and close partnership with childcare organisations.

The partnership of Maytree Nursery School and Lambeth Educational Psychology Service

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The partnership of Maytree Nursery School and Lambeth Educational Psychology Service is one of the 45 education sector entries to make the shortlist for the 2004 National Training Awards, run by UK Skills on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills. Finalists will attend regional award ceremonies from later this month. The support group Working Families has set up a Parents abetter for all of us.'

Unfair to judge us all

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I would like to say how wrong I think F McCallum's letter (26 August) is. I am in the middle of training to be a nursery nurse. Most courses last around two years and involve lots of teaching on all aspects of looking after children, as well as practical training in several placements. At the two placements I have done so far, all the staff treated the children well and with respect. They also all had a genuine love of being with the children. Most nurseries aren't at all like the three nurseries shown in 'Nurseries Undercover'. I don't think it is fair to judge all nursery nurses on a few who do treat the children badly.

Funding would support quality

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By Lewis Wood, proprietor of the Wishing Tree Nursery in Brighton, East Sussex Since the 'Nurseries Undercover' programme was broadcast we have been approached by a number of parents expressing their concern, particularly those considering sending their children to nursery.

For your shelf

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Supporting inclusion in the early years. By Caroline A Jones. (Open University Press, 16.99, ISBN 0335210910, 01628 770 224) Reviewed by Collette Drifte, early years consultant

Tragic consequences

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Not only will the survivors of the Beslan massacre be traumatised, but children elsewhere may be distressed by the news. Andrea Clifford-Poston offers advice for understanding and responding to them A Russian grandmother sobs that her small grandson has survived the Beslan massacre. 'But how will he ever understand? How can he ever get over it?'

Crathes Castle played host to a mini Highland Games

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Crathes Castle played host to a mini Highland Games at which children aged three to 12 took part in traditional and not-so-traditional challenges, such as a tug of war, hurling a haggis and welly-throwing, as well as the highlight of any Highland gathering, tossing the caber. The event was organised by Banchory's Round Table and proved a popular way of introducing children to the sports. Photo Paul Reid

Eco award for conservation

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A nursery school in Edinburgh is leading the way for environmentally friendly activity. St Leonard's Nursery School became the first nursery in Edinburgh to win the Green Flag award from the Eco Schools Programme in June for its efforts to improve the environment, encourage citizenship and promote healthy lifestyles among pupils and local community members.

Training tips

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By xMaureen Smith and Yvonne Nolan, co-founders of Duo Consulting and developers of the new APEL qualification APEL Level 3 Certificate in work with children(Early Years or Playwork), Unit 2: reflect on practice Section 8 - Reflect on how your practice engages with families and others who are significant to the children.

Our recommended choice

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Sounds like playing: music and the early years curriculum. By Marjorie Ouvry. (Early Education, 12.99, ISBN 0904 187 31 4, 020 7539 5400) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant

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