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Staff awards

    Other
  • Monday, January 13, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Little Rascals Nursery in Walsall honoured staff with an awards afternoon, celebrating the work they had put in during 2013.

Children told to stop parents smoking

    News
  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
    • | Nursery World
A controversial anti-smoking project has been launched in Essex, aiming to get parents to stop smoking by teaching children at nursery about its health risks.

'Can't' rather than 'can do'?

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 29, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Early Learning Consultancy's Helen Moylett and Nancy Stewart argue why children have been set up to fail by the new Early Learning Goals

Roll up

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Play ball for lively learning and exploring across the early years curriculum with these activities suggested by Jane Drake. Use children's interest in ball play as a starting point for learning in the indoor and outdoor areas through this cross-curricular project.

Looking good

    News
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The purpose and the possible uses of the new guidelines for practitioners working with under-threes are explained by Professor Lesley Abbott In 2001, I was asked by the Government to develop a framework of effective practice to support staff working with children aged under three. This was to be done in conjunction with my early years and childhood studies team at Manchester Metropolitan University. The outcome of this work, which was funded by the new Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare unit at the Department for Education and Skills, led by Baroness Catherine Ashton, was launched last month as a pack called Birth to Three Matters. This pack should be distributed to about 300,000 settings, including day nurseries, registered childminders and Sure Start programmes before Christmas. All Ofsted inspectors at the Early Years Directorate and Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships should also receive it.

For an arty party

    News
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Two of the biggest headaches for anyone holding a children's party - how to keep the kids busy and what to give them to take home with them - could be solved in one go thanks to a new business called Party Creations. It will supply all the makings for a craft activity in which children aged from four to eight can decorate their own treasure box, clock, photo frame, flower pot or apron. Founder Polly Freeman points out that children can also give their creations as family presents, and any leftover materials can be kept for rainy day activities. Pack prices range from 6 to 10 each for small or individual orders and 4 to 8 in bulk. Ring Party Creations on 020 7738 8495.

Moving on

    News
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
High staff turnover has been blamed on poor pay and conditions, but bad management is just as likely to make staff quit, say researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Staff retention is recognised as critical to the expansion of the childcare sector, and poor pay and conditions have long been cited as the main reasons why nursery workers quit their jobs. But now dissatisfaction with management has emerged as one of the issues which causes some nursery staff to move on.

New consultation with parents and sector over ratios

    News
  • Monday, November 4, 2013
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting with the early years sector and parents on staff:child ratios, in a renewed drive to encourage providers to move to a 1:13 ratio for three- and four-year-olds.

A unique Child: Get cooking - casserole

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
    • | Nursery World
In the first of a monthly series, Emma Comer and Meg Smith of Tall Trees Kindergarten in Frome, Somerset, share a recipe and tips on delivering food of the highest quality to young children.

Where can we go?

    News
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I work in a pre-school that uses church premises. We have to set up play equipment each morning and put everything away again at the end of the session. We have to be out of the premises by a certain time, giving us no time to talk to parents. I have recently attended a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator training course and I do not know where I am going to be able to hold meetings with parents about their children's special needs, which is a very delicate issue. If there are to be free places for all three- and four-year-olds by 2004 as the Government is intending, this issue will have to be addressed.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, February 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Sometimes the only way you can tell who's who in a class is that the teacher is standing, and the teaching assistant is sitting down. And children don't know, either' Roger Hancock of the Open University, who has studied the role of teaching assistants in schools, The Independent

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Port of call

    Features
  • Monday, January 27, 2014
    • | Nursery World
One city council's commitment to early intervention for those with special educational needs is ensuring children get the support they need. Nicole Weinstein reports.

Children as young as four are being permanently excluded from school

    News
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children as young as four are are being permanently excluded from school in England, Government data for the year 2000-01 has revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics, 13 four-year-olds - 12 boys and one girl - were permanently removed from their schools, as were 52 five-year-olds - 49 boys and three girls. By the age of six, 95 boys and eight girls were permanently excluded from school. The number of permanent exclusions overall, at just over 9,100 - 80 per cent of them from secondary schools - is the highest since 1998-99.

Neighbourhood sites win funding

    News
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Grants of nearly 250,000 have been awarded to build or renovate six day nurseries in England to boost the Government's Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative. The New Opportunities Fund's (NOF) Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme last week awarded more than 234,000 to fund the building of three new nurseries and the development of a further three. NOF chair Baroness Jill Pitkeathley said, 'These are exciting new projects and this funding will enable them to begin closing the gaps in childcare provision, particularly in disadvantaged areas.'

Nursery chain aiming to brighten up image

    News
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The UK's sixth biggest nursery chain, Princess Christian Nurseries, is seeking to re-brand itself as 'bright, fun and friendly' with a new logo. The group, owned by the private education provider Nord Anglia, doubled in size when Nord Anglia bought the Milton Keynes-based Bright Horizons group last July. All 20 nurseries are now being re-branded.

Splish, splosh!

    News
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
When it comes to finding a material that will appeal to all babies and toddlers, water has natural advantages, says When the rain came back this autumn, I was outside trying to negotiate the dips in the pavement without getting my feet wet when I saw a toddler with his father just ahead of me. The young boy was fully kitted out in brightly coloured wellingtons, mackintosh and rain hat. He was positively bouncing with joy. He went into the shallow puddles with feet full down, and then experimented by going in on tippy-toe. With a short run-up, the toddler went for the more exciting dips with both feet together. His father was patient and they worked their way along the street, splashing as they went.

Top ten dionsaur books

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Tom and The Island of Dinosaurs by Ian Beck (Corgi Children's Books) * Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus by Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees (Orchard Books)

Planning a dance session

    News
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A planned dance session should have distinct phases that are appropriate to the children's stage of development. When planning such a session, practitioners will need to take account of factors such as the children's range of ages, abilities, interests, concentration span and physical strength. Introduction

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