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Picture perfect

    News
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Young children respond to art instinctively as a way to express themselves, and in experimenting with materials they discover how to give form to their ideas and feelings Painting and drawing are categorised under Creative Development within the Foundation Stage curriculum. The document Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage rightly states that creativity is fundamental to successful learning. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another and so extend understanding.

The Inspection Journey Part 6 - Today's the day

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | Nursery World
For a successful Ofsted inspection, the staff team need to consider their setting from the viewpoint of both a child attending it, and the inspector, says Laura Henry in the last of the series.

A home from Home Office at city nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Just Learning, the UK's third largest nursery chain, is fitting out a new 400,000 nursery next to the Home Office in Westminster. Home Office staff will be entitled to priority booking at the 70-place nursery and a 10 per cent reduction in fees. Remaining places will be offered to the general public.

Take flight

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Everybody got in on the act when a nursery school devised an imaginative project, described here by head Sue Chambers At Chertsey Nursery School, we decided to organise a special Design and Technology Fun Week as part of the whole-school project that we have each term. The aim of the week was to:

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government has been very keen to stress how important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of various polls of the public are used to justify maintaining physical punishment of children as a legal option. But those on the receiving end - children themselves - are rarely asked for their opinions. So it is great to see that Save the Children Scotland has surveyed children (see News, page 4) and found them overwhelmingly against smacking. The children's thoughtful and heartfelt comments reveal just how distressing and confusing they find being hit by their parents.

Show us men some respect

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Michael Nolan, a nursery nurse in a Birmingham hospital's neonatal unit. I'm fed up with hearing presumptions about why the childcare sector has problems when it comes to employing male nursery nurses.

Checking the fees

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Your news story, 'Don't pay for police checks, carers told' (19 July) was right to point out that daycare providers in England and Wales do not have to register with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) or pay for Disclosures. Ofsted will act as an umbrella body for the sector, and the Department for Education and Skills will meet Disclosure costs, at least initially. I am sorry that some daycare providers have been confused over this issue because of information we have sent them. This has happened because any organisation requesting information about using the CRB is entered in our database, and will automatically receive application forms inviting them to register to use the Disclosure service. The daycare providers that have received application forms recently will have at some time in the past contacted us independently for information.

Windfall for partnerships

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An advocacy service which will be available to all private and voluntary sector providers to help them work within their childcare partnerships is to be set up by the Scottish Independent Nurseries Association (SINA), thanks to an award of nearly 35,000 from the Scottish Executive. The award made to SINA to establish the Childcare Partnership Liaison Service was one of six to organisations working with children and young people announced last week by deputy education minister Nicol Stephen.

Co-ordinate named Charity Magazine of the Year

    News
  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The National Early Years Network's magazine, Co-ordinate, was named Charity Magazine of the Year at the 2001 Charity and Public Service Publishing Awards ceremony held in London last week. The reporting judge, Conrad Taylor, described the magazine as being 'informative, produced to a tight budget, engagingly written and designed with great subtlety'. He added, 'The typography is highly legible and delicately tuned - so much so that you hardly notice the artistry behind it.' The runner-up magazine was Inside Out, produced by the Council for World Mission.

In brief...Scottish Borders Council

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Scottish Borders Council has voted in support of a package of measures designed to shear 1.57m off the education budget in order to address a 2.8m overspend. At a meeting of the full council last week, two rural nursery classes, attached to primary schools in Westruther and Fountainhall, were saved from the axe, but it was decided that there will be less cash for implementing the childcare strategy, early intervention, classroom assistants and support for parents.

The record of needs system for children with special educational needs is to be scrapped

    News
  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The record of needs system for children with special educational needs is to be scrapped, minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson said last week. Ms Jamieson said that after 'numerous complaints' about the record of needs, it would be replaced by a new co-ordinated support plan which would also have statutory backing but would only come into play if a child's needs were found to be beyond their school's resources. Childcarers and other professionals will work together to identify children with special needs as early as possible, to ensure appropriate provision.

Children are only human

    News
  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The letter from Emma MacDonald (18 November) about smacking typically demonstrates how little some people regard children within society. She suggests, 'parents are only human and make mistakes like everyone else'. But children are human too! They feel intimidated, feel pain, hold fears and have many more internalised experiences, just like you and me.

Parent support services: Right from the start

    News
  • Tuesday, August 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It is what happens at home that really affects the life chances of under-fives, but policy-makers have tended to consider this a private matter. Should it remain so? Anne Wiltsher looks at another way

Ready when they are

    News
  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I wrote to Nursery World three years ago on the subject of too much formal education too early. I made the point that my four-year-old son wasn't remotely interested in sitting still and learning anything, but he was very interested in turning cardboard boxes into Tracey Island. A year later, he went to school and, while he learned to read and write, he was hardly an enthusiastic pupil. He would still rather have been making things out of boxes and running around in the playground or park.

Work Matters: Finance

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Lynn Bryden is business and finance support officer at Sure Start Strategic Partnership Tyne & Wear (www.northtyneside.gov.uk)

Working Mum - I cried and she cried

    Features
  • Monday, March 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
What does early years education and childcare look like through the eyes of a typical working mother? In the first of a new series, Working Mum explains how settling her second daughter into nursery was as hard as first time around

Physical fitness

    News
  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Physical fitness differences in children with and without motor learning difficulties In this Australian study, 52 children with motor learning difficulties (MLD), aged five to eight years, were compared with 52 age- and gender-matched control children across a range of health and skill-related fitness components. Analyses revealed significantly lower scores in the group with MLD on the tests for cardio-respiratory endurance, flexibility, abdominal strength, speed and power than the control group. Also, the group with MLD had a significantly higher Body Mass Index.

To the point...

    News
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell sees little progress being made in chld protection despite a review of cases It was easy to miss: minister for children Margaret Hodge this month delivered the results of the mighty national search of files of children made the subject of a care order that she commissioned in the summer. This was in the wake of the Angela Cannings appeal, in which the judges proposed that there should be no prosecution in infant death cases that depended on disputed medical evidence.

Music suppliers

    News
  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Music Education Supplies offers a wide range of musical instruments and music books, tel: 020 8870 3866, fax: 020 8770 3554 * Acorn Educational 015367 46480 * Leading early years suppliers, such as Hope, Galt and NES Arnold, also have a steadily growing stock of musical instruments.

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