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Celebrating diversity

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  • Wednesday, August 24, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Chinese mid-autumn festival The mid-autumn festival is the third of the great celebrations in the Chinese community, following the New Year and Dragon Boat festivals. This year the festival falls on 18 September.

Speech delay: Early words

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  • Tuesday, November 28, 2000
    • | Nursery World
Parents hold the key to preventing speech delay. Anne Wiltsher reports on what childcare professionals are doing to empower them

In my view

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  • Wednesday, August 24, 2005
    • | Nursery World
By Irene Russell, teaching assistant, Cheriton Primary School, Folkestone, Kent With the new intake of reception children looming, I was wondering who decided that children must now start school at just four years old?

Queen Bee

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  • Monday, October 31, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Congratulations to Emma Chapman, who is celebrating 20 years as the manager of Kids Inc.

Centres need a strategy

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  • Wednesday, May 19, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By Stephen Burke, director of the Daycare Trust The Chancellor's Budget announcement of funding for 1,700 children's centres in England, ahead of July's spending review, is a sure sign that children's centres are an idea whose time has come.

TV and radio

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  • Wednesday, May 19, 2004
    • | Nursery World
20 May Edge of the City Channel 4, 9 to 10pm

Castle Howard in Yorkshire

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  • Wednesday, August 17, 2005
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Young children enjoyed a magical time at Castle Howard in Yorkshire when they took part in a 'Wizards and Witches' workshop that encouraged them to use their imaginations in creating their own wizard's or witch's hats, magic wands and spooky masks. They also explored the 'wicked wolves and witches' trail, which led them deep into the stately home's own enchanted wood to hear the tales of Little Red Riding Hood and Hansel and Gretel. Photo John Chapman/Guzelian

Hot and cold

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  • Wednesday, May 19, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Let temperatures rise with a focus on winter and summer 1 Summer and winter

obesity: A weighty problem

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  • Tuesday, October 17, 2000
    • | Nursery World
Record childhood obesity levels are causing some schools and playgroups to think hard about the food messages they give children. Judith Napier reports

Finer feelings

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  • Wednesday, May 19, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Plan a range of collaborative activities that explore what is good and bad about being happy and sad By the age of three or four years old, most children have acquired an awareness of themselves as a separate personality from their peers and are beginning to be able to identify the similarities and differences in their likes and dislikes that connect them to and distinguish them from their friends. Practitioners can help children develop learning partnerships with each other.

Secret agents

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Set up a Spy Academy at your after-school club and the children won't want to go home, says Deborah Sharpe. Here she shows what popular games she uses to get the children on the trail of Sylvester Slime, Master Criminal of the underworld... 'stop. Password please.''Baked Beans.' 'Enter. Welcome to Spy Academy.'

Council campaigns to outlaw bullying

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
An innovative campaign aimed at tackling bullying in out-of-school hours has been launched across the London borough of Camden. 'Growing Up Safely in Camden' was drawn up by Camden's Children Fund after research commissioned in 2002 showed that 44 per cent of children aged five to 13 had been bullied in open spaces such as estates, parks or on routes to school in the previous six months.

Playschool in pictures

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  • Wednesday, August 17, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Playschool in pictures: children's photographs as a research method This study in an Icelandic playschool looked at the ways children think about their early childhood setting and set out to develop methods for listening to their perspectives. One group used digital cameras while they showed the researcher important places and things; the other group was given disposable cameras to use unsupervised. Einarsdottir, J. Early Child Development and Care 175(6): 523-541, August 2005. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

First outstanding

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  • Monday, July 25, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Zeeba Royal Arsenal Riverside Nursery in London came straight in at number one after receiving an Outstanding grading from Ofsted.

Working to tackle bullying

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Recent research by the NSPCC revealed that 49 per cent of children and young people are worried about being bullied and that young people were reluctant to talk to their parents about concerns such as bullying for fear of not being believed. Out-of-school provision is not exempt from the dangers of bullying, indeed the potential for bullying to occur can be greater in the less structured environment of the club than in the classroom.

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