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Educators and parents unite

    News
  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Geraldine Everett, national chair of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) Thinking skills are needed as much by those in government as by school children. The sooner we can have joined-up thinking that leads to properly resourced joined-up education the better.

It's time to recognise BAs in early childhood

    News
  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I found Jane Akroyd's In my view, 'World-class qualification' (5 June), very interesting. In Australia, she states, the manager of a childcare centre is qualified with a BA in Early Childhood Education. There has been so much emphasis recently on the importance on having highly trained staff, qualified with NNEB, BTec or NVQ 3. But here in our country how often does a nursery nurse position - let alone a manager position - ask for a degree in Early Childhood Education?

Minders say 'fix tax credit'

    News
  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Problems with the childcare tax credit need to be sorted out by the Inland Revenue if the childcare strategy is to succeed, the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) has warned. The Inland Revenue launched a consultation last month setting out plans to create two new UK-wide tax credits from 2003, an integrated child credit and an employment tax credit. These credits would replace existing schemes (see news, 26 July). The childcare tax credit, which families currently can claim for up to 70 per cent of their eligible childcare costs, would become part of the new employment tax credit.

Business federation backs nursery owners

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Private nursery providers campaigning against the Government's new code of practice on the nursery education grant have won national support from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Members of the 200,000-strong organisation's national council voted unanimously in support of a motion instructing the FSB's policy group 'to assist pre-school providers in calling a halt to the Government implementation of the code of practice'. The motion by the FSB's Kent representative, Vic Peake, also urged the Government 'to undertake an urgent assessment of its impact'.

The ...a la carte approach to nursery food

    News
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'A healthy way to tackle obesity' (Nursery World, 4 November) highlighted the serious issue of child obesity. I believe that we all have an important role to play in our children's lifestyles and that the only way forward is to take a consistent yet achievable approach with regard to diet and exercise for our children. We need to educate children with a flexible and healthy approach towards food from an early age and provide opportunities for them to be active during the day. France and other European countries have a much healthier approach to food than us. They encourage even the youngest children to help prepare lunch and lay the table. The children and staff leisurely eat a home-cooked meal, quite often consisting of three courses or more. The children help in the clearing-up process and then have a siesta before going outside to play.

Valued experience

    News
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I worked as a classroom assistant in a local school for three years from 1997 to 2000, and my experience was a very different one to that described by Anna Jones ('In my view', 20 September). While I share her experience that we were not invited either to staff meetings or to take part in teacher training days, in my case there was money available to pay for some of the training - usually half of the cost - if it was applied for. With this help I achieved my NVQ 3 that was jointly funded by a local partnership that paid the other half of my fees.

Moving the goalpost

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I was concerned at seeing that 72 per cent of respondents to the QCA consultation were happy with the proposal to alter the Early Learning Goal linking letters to sounds (News, 26 October). I can only assume that many of the respondents have not worked directly with groups of four-year-olds, and wonder whether early years practitioners thought, like me, that their response to the same question in the consultation on the Early Years Foundation Stage would be passed on to the QCA. Since there has been a deliberate effort to align the EYFS with the Primary Strategy, this is not an unreasonable assumption. It is disingenuous of the DfES to use the QCA result as an argument in favour of going ahead with the proposed change, in view of the results from the Foundation Stage Profile this year, which show once more that linking letters to sounds, along with writing, are the Early Learning Goals reached by the lowest percentage of pupils. Raising the level of difficulty is likely to result in yet more children being labelled as failures.

Blair pegs provision to schools' hours

    News
  • Wednesday, November 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Childcare was at the forefront of the political agenda last week as both the Labour and the Conservative parties pledged to increase provision and give parents more choice in the run-up to the next general election. The prime minister himself took to the podium at the Daycare Trust's annual conference in London to announce the Government's plans for childcare for parents of school-age children and a move towards universal childcare for those from nought to 14 by the end of a Labour third term.

Opinion - Look out for extremists

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, July 7, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Following the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the McPherson Inquiry concluded that despite best intentions, organisations could still end up unintentionally discriminating against ethnic minorities. If people with good intentions can end up discriminating against ethnic minorities, then what about those who hold racist views?

'Abolish rates' call as costs rocket

    News
  • Wednesday, November 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The private daycare sector is at risk of being crippled by rising business rates, the National Day Nurseries Association warned last week. Rates have shot up so high in some areas of England and Wales that nurseries are facing a 300 per cent increase on last year, an NDNA poll revealed.

Open spaces

    News
  • Wednesday, October 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Spending time out of doors not only brings fresh air and freedom, but encourages self-reliance and co-operation too, explains Denis Barrowcliffe At the club where I work, the children spend at least 60 per cent of their time out of doors. In the summer, we're seldom in. I believe in getting children outside; unfortunately too much of their lives are spent indoors. Below are some of the outdoor activities I intend to introduce to staff, children and young people at our club - they may give you some ideas, too.

'Provision needs social enterprise'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Social enterprise could solve the problem of sustainable childcare provision, according to the charity 4Children. Its new manifesto, 'Creating new solutions', argues that while start-up funding for new childcare provision is important, ensuring ongoing sustainability is what is vital to success.

What's behind ratios?

    News
  • Wednesday, November 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I am frustrated and disappointed that after consultation on the EYFS, the Government has no plans to change proposed ratio requirements. They say 58 per cent of respondents thought the ratios 'unhelpful'. Some practitioners are concerned that the ratios are not sufficient to provide high-quality care, regardless of the setting. There is also concern that an EYP or other level 6 practitioner would not be able to deliver the same quality of provision as a teacher. It appears to be in response to this that justification to the proposed ratios is made. These ratios have operated previously within sessional provision in school nurseries. Having been a nursery teacher for many years, I found this ratio inadequate. However, I think the point to be made is that children attending sessionally are 'visiting' a situation for a few hours.

In the know a monthly round-up of new research

    News
  • Wednesday, November 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Getting it right from the start: developing a service delivery model for non-maintained early years settings Argues the case for developing a model for delivering educational psychology services in early years settings, with five key elements of practice along inclusive lines.

Data processing

    News
  • Wednesday, November 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Our series about some of the main theories of development by Tricia David concludes with a look at information processing What is Information Processing theory?

Enabling Environments: Collections - The world of pattern

    Features
  • Monday, March 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
In the first of a two-part series on pattern, Nicole Weinstein looks at the concept that underpins it all - mathematics -and suggests resources to encourage children to design, build or observe patterns in order to make sense of the world around them.

Positive Relationships: Real progress

    Features
  • Monday, March 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
What next for literacy project Making it REAL? Joyce Connor, from the National Children's Bureau's Early Childhood Unit, looks at how the training has been enhanced for two-year-olds.

Making connections

    News
  • Wednesday, November 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A skilled teacher can make the connections between day-to-day life and the global environment Early years experiences and activities need to be relevant, if they are to provide a fertile foundation for learning and development. But how can the concept of the global dimension be relevant to the early years?

Merger into largest chain is called off

    News
  • Wednesday, November 10, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The merger of Asquith Court and Kidsunlimited, two of the largest nursery chains in the UKand Ireland, was called off last week at the final hour. Both groups say they have reluctantly decided not to go ahead, blaming a delay in receiving a decision from the Inland Revenue, which they say is damaging the value of both businesses.

TV makeovers exploit parents

    News
  • Wednesday, November 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Tricia Pritchard, senior professional officer, Professional Association of Nursery Nurses A proliferation of TV programmes like 'Supernanny' are introducing us to 'children from hell' and their long-suffering, 'clueless' parents.

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