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Series guide

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
To deliver the Foundation Stage curriculum effectively, practitioners need to consider three levels of planning: * long-term plans, which chart the learning opportunities that will be offered through continuous and permanent provision

Puffins Childcare Centres

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Puffins Childcare Centres is celebrating being re-recognised under the Investor in People scheme, which the company has held since 1996. The IiP's assessor said, 'Puffins demonstrated quite clearly and without any doubt that it continues to satisfy the national standard. Puffins' owners, Maureen Guard and Rosalind Taylor, said they were 'delighted' by this endorsement of their commitment to staff development at their nurseries in Exeter and Torbay. They added that they believe staff development to be 'the most effective way to maintain the quality of care received by the children, which provided staff with professional development opportunities'. The IiP award is based on four key principles for people development.

Appeal by 'Blue Peter' to help set up breakfast clubs

    News
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A new appeal by the BBC children's programme 'Blue Peter' is aiming to help set up breakfast clubs in the UK as well as in Bangladesh, Colombia and South Africa. 'Blue Peter' editor Tim Levell said, 'We hope that Mission Nutrition will present a real opportunity for children to understand more about food - where it comes from, how to grow their own, what is healthy and what the challenges are to eating well for children around the world. We want to put two million meals on plates.' More information is available at www.missionnutrition.org.uk.

Donna Agnew, age 21, of Kilrea, Co Londonderry

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Donna Agnew, age 21, of Kilrea, Co Londonderry, is this year's winner of the Causeway Institute of Further and Higher Education's Early Years Cup, sponsored by Nursery World. Donna, a BTec National Diploma student in childhood studies at the Institute's Ballymoney campus, achieved distinctions in all units and works as a classroom assistant in Kilrea Primary School. She celebrated with course tutor Norma McKinney (centre) and Aine Lynch, course co-ordinator and head of health, social care and catering.

Reception staff in redundancy fight

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses working in reception classes have mounted a campaign to fight their local authority's plans to make them redundant. A consultation paper sent to headteachers in the London borough of Hounslow in the last week of January put forward proposals to cut the budget for reception units by 990,000 and fund reception at the same rate as year one. In practice this would require the withdrawal of nursery nurses from early years teams and affect 97 nursery nurse jobs. The consultation period ends on 15 February.

Case study: Freshfield Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The manager of Freshfield Nursery, Mrs Quinton, heard one four-year-old child refer to rice at lunchtime as 'chinky food'. Although she was already developing a strategy for equality in the nursery, this incident made her rethink her work on food. She decided to visit two local shops that sell foods different from each other - one owned by Mrs Elliott and the other by Mr Shah - hoping that the experience would enable the children, from various ethnic backgrounds, to understand each other's lives better.

Nursery rhymes

    News
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A survey by children's communication charity I CAN found that 83 per cent of the 2,000 parents surveyed agreed that nursery rhymes are important as they are passed down the generations, as did 96 per cent of the 1,000 grandparents who were questioned.

Fossilised vertebra of an Ice Age woolly rhinocerous donated to museum

    News
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Five-year-old Emelia Fawbert displays the 50,000-year-old fossilised vertebra of an Ice Age woolly rhinoceros she found on her first excavation near her home in Cirencester, Gloucester. The 16in-long bone, described by palaeontologists as a rare find, has now been donated to a museum.

Why exempt the two-hour carers?

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
With reference to all the recent discussion and issues concerned with child protection and Criminal Records Bureau checks, why is it still possible under Ofsted for people in England to look after other people's children for under two hours a day and not have to be registered - and therefore not checked by anybody? Surely this is in direct contradiction to the latest child protection and safety checks. After all, a lot could happen to a child in two hours and over a period of days or weeks.

Understanding babies' minds

    News
  • Monday, August 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Kate Cairns Associates, which specialises in training on attachment, early brain development and developmental trauma, has just launched a new series of one-day national training events.

Super software

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
KSI teacher Margaret Edwards makes her own recommendations Lollipop Software from Lollipop Learning is an interesting innovation that introduces children-and teachers! - to the concept of website design through an easy to use wizard. It also allows children to send and receive email in a secure environment. Typically, I first tried it without using the written manual, which I guess many busy people try to do, and came a cropper as I had not uploaded any images. Once I tried again with the user guide, it did what it should be doing, although it did seem out of sync to upload the images before doing anything else. I do have some reservations about this product. For instance, as I was completing the wizard to create the first page it wasn't clear to me which bits of text would be where on the page; it would be better if one could type straight on to the page. It also took ages to upload and move the pictures around, but we haven't got Broadband yet. We have a technician who is in the process of designing and building a website for us, but if this were not the case I would consider Lollipop, despite some quibbles. This is because it is easy for the children to use and also very reasonably priced, at 350 for a whole school website.

The number of three-and four-year-olds in Britain's schools has trebled

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The number of three-and four-year-olds in Britain's schools has trebled over the past 30 years, Government statistics show. The 32nd edition of Social Trends, published last week by the Office for National Statistics, said that as a result of the rise in pre-school-age children enrolled in schools, the total number of playgroups and pre-schools in 2001 fell to 14,000, which was 300 fewer than in 2000. The number of places also fell by 23,000 - a six per cent drop - to 330,000 in 2001. But there are now 12 times the number of out-of-school club places for children aged five to seven in England than there were a decade ago. In 2001, 4,900 out-of-school clubs provided 152,800 places for five-to seven-year-olds, compared with 350 clubs in 1992. Among other areas profiled in Social Trends, the report noted 'a highly-significant increasing trend' in the proportion of nought- to four-year-olds who are overweight. But children's dental health has improved in recent years. In 1999/2000, 60 per cent of five-year-olds had no decayed, missing or filled teeth compared with 56 per cent in 1989. The report also noted that the number of families with dependent children headed by a lone parent is three times higher than it was in 1971.

Work Matters: On course

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    • | Nursery World
26 NOVEMBER. Including me: Working with children with complex health needs. Participants on this National Children's Bureau course will hear case studies of good practice to gain an understanding of the needs of children with complex health needs, consider the implications for their own practice, and learn about the legislation that underpins the inclusion of children in schools and early years settings and how to design policies and procedures to use in their own workplace.

A can of worms

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government may not have guessed what a complicated set of issues it was opening up when it said it wanted to enhance the role of teaching assistants, says Dr Alan Marr The Government is pushing ahead with its plans to develop an enhanced role for classroom assistants. After ministers insisting for months that the rise in numbers of teaching assistants (TAs) was unrelated to teacher shortages and denying that they were a cheap option to paper over recruitment difficulties, recent statements have suggested that the Government does now view TA employment as going some way to alleviating the problem.

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