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Project guide

    News
  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This three-part project covers all six areas of learning, and communication, language and literacy supports all the activities. The areas of learning are indicated by:

Let men join this great club

    News
  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By James Griffin, Northern Ireland's first male registered childminder, who lives in Bangor, Co Down I must admit the majority of my friends responded to the news of my attendance at the Northern Ireland Childminding Association (NICMA) course, 'Introduction to childminding pre-registration', with an astounded, 'Are you mad? It'll be full of women talkin' and talkin' and at the end of it you'll be stuck in the house all day with a few wee monsters! It'll do your head in, mate! Rather you than me.'

Powers of attraction

    News
  • Wednesday, October 27, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Develop children's awareness of the properties of magnets using these stimulating activities from Judith Stevens A project about magnets will often be part of a larger theme such as 'materials'. The project will offer many opportunities to develop children's understanding of the Knowledge and Understanding of the World aspect of 'exploration and investigation'.

TV shows suspect nursery practices

    News
  • Wednesday, August 11, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Private day nurseries are bracing themselves for another media scare as a TV documentary using 'secret' footage is due to be aired this week.

Working partnerships

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 21, 2015
    • | Nursery World
To do the best for the children in our care, it is crucial to develop strong partnerships with their parents or carers.

Keeping rents down

    News
  • Wednesday, October 27, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'Key workers', such as teachers and nurses, are able to earn 20,000 and above, and at some stage these workers may be better able to afford high rents. But rents are now incredibly high, and I believe there should be affordable rents for everyone. The large market in 'buy to rent' properties fuels the housing market and, so we are told, is good for the economy, which I believe is the Government's first and only priority.

Children at the Frances Wright Pre-School Centre in Dundee

    News
  • Wednesday, October 20, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children at the Frances Wright Pre-School Centre in Dundee enjoy a varied outdoor environment thanks to five murals painted by volunteers from Dundee College depicting a forest, a farm, a beach, a town and a bus. Head teacher Lesley Hutt said, 'I wanted to encourage the children to play imaginatively, so I decided to have places they could go, as well as a bus to get them there. We also have props for each scene.' Photo Paul Reid

Feely bags

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Try a game that will challenge children's tactile senses, concentration, memory and matching abilities. Planned learning intention

Make a spider

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Georgina Smith, nursery nurse at Gillas Lane Nursery Unit, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear Talk about spiders and reinforce your discussion by making a simple craft version of the creatures, and saying a rhyme.

In shape

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Play a game about pattern to tie in with our pattern project (see overleaf). Child development opportunities

Children are being served up too many calories

    News
  • Wednesday, August 4, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children are being served up too many calories and excessive fat and not enough of the necessary fibre content and essential vitamins in children's meals on the menu at restaurants, cafes and leisure centres, according to a survey for the Food Commission. All the 141 meals that were analysed failed to meet at least one of the Caroline Walker Trust's nutritional guidelines for school meals. The meals analysed at the Harvester chain, Adventure Kingdom and home superstore IKEA were too high in calories. The 'Rib Ticklers' offered at Harvester contained more than twice the recommended number of calories and four times the recommended levels of fat. Even at London's Science Museum, all the children's meals on offer contained too much saturated fat. The research findings have been submitted to the Food Standards Agency in response to its children's food promotion consultation and to the Department of Health for its 'Choosing Health' consultation.

ICT family fun day: Compute this

    News
  • Tuesday, May 15, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Inviting in families to see what they can do with new technology boosts learning at home, says Irene Drummond of Chatham Place Nursery School, Liverpool

All change

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The birth of a new baby in the family calls for adjustments by the children, parents and nanny, says Jennie Lindon As a nanny you may be part of a family throughout the time that a new baby is expected, and then arrives to change the shape of this family for everyone. Or you may be involved at different stages of the transition time, as the mother takes leave from work. How you will tune into the needs of the parents, the other children and the new baby depends on whether you are with the family from the outset or you join at some point in the process.

Schools minister Jacqui Smith

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Schools minister Jacqui Smith (right) made bread with pupils at Ennersdale Primary School in the London borough of Lewisham and announced a 2.2m package to boost food education and awareness in schools. She said, 'We want to encourage primary schools to do more cooking so children get the healthy eating message.' Photo by Joel Chant

Shape and the first hundred nouns

    News
  • Wednesday, October 20, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Reports evidence from a study in which children's attention to shape in a task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a rate shift in noun acquisitions. Eight children (median age 17 months) were tested at three-week intervals, beginning when they had less than 25 nouns in their productive vocabulary. The results indicate that as children learned nouns, they also learned to attend to shape in the novel word task. Children also showed an acceleration in new noun production outside of the task. * Gershkoff-Stowe, L and Smith, L B, Child Development 75 (4): 1098-1114, July 2004. Abstract: www.blackwell-synergy.com.

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