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Fish oil diet linked to calmer behaviour

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Children from three Sure Start centres in Durham have shown 'significant advances' in their behaviour, concentration and level of parental bonding after participating in the most recent trial of fish oil supplements. The study, published yesterday (7 December), involved 65 children who had challenging behaviour and problems with attention and concentration.

Organisations unite to lobby on proposals

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Early Childhood Forum, co-ordinated by the National Children's Bureau (NCB), has joined forces with leading children's organisations to form a new childcare coalition in response to the Childcare Bill. The ECF, which has 48 member organisations around the UK, including the National Day Nurseries Association and the National Childminding Association, signed a joint briefing giving their feedback on the Bill, with the NSPCC, Barnardo's, the autism charity Treehouse, Contact a Family and the Special Education Consortium, and will work together on lobbying the Government.

On call

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  • Wednesday, June 27, 2001
    • | Nursery World
You may have been intrigued by a large advertisement in Nursery World in May seeking 'an emergency nanny to provide childcare at short notice around the M25 area'. Rather than whizzing around in a van on some motorway call-out service, the successful candidate, says Family Matters, the advertiser, doubles as a nanny and a childcare advisor. Family Matters provides childcare and advice to its corporate clients, meaning back-up care if a staff member's usual nanny or childminder is unavailable, and help in finding childcare for any employees who need it. So when the emergency nanny isn't whizzing around the motorway to look after children, she can work from home on administrative tasks with a computer supplied by the company. The previous emergency nanny jobholder worked her way into a permanent office post as one of Family Matters' six childcare advisors. If this idea catches on elsewhere there could be yet another route for nannies to take their job options beyond the M25. To find out more contact Cherry at Family Matters on 07711 712 564.

To the point...

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says it's too much to expect Sure Start to change society, or social services One thing we know for sure. Sure Start is a good thing. What we also know for sure is that the best childcare in the world can't cure the worst places in the world. Why would anyone think that Sure Start could make Murder Mile a better place to live? Why would anyone think that a child born into a dangerous milieu will be saved by Sure Start from the assault on its wellbeing that everyday life will bring?

A parent's guide to (avoiding) worksheets

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  • Wednesday, May 25, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Bookshops and newsagents sell a large range of workbooks and worksheets and parents can feel as though they will not be doing their best for their child unless they buy them and work through them with their children. The problem with worksheets is that they can turn learning, which young children find such fun, into a slog or chore. While time spent with your child is vital to their learning and development, there are many more useful things that you can be doing to help. The guidance says the workbook activities will help my child to achieve the early learning goals. Isn't this a good idea?

Those were the days

    News
  • Wednesday, June 27, 2001
    • | Nursery World
What was it that made the golden age of nannying so great? Lindsey Blythe compares a nanny's lot then and now

Our recommended choice

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  • Wednesday, May 25, 2005
    • | Nursery World
DOING YOUR EARLY YEARS RESEARCH PROJECT: a step-by-step guide. By Guy Roberts-Holmes. (17.99, Paul Chapman). Reviewed by Nicola Gray, BA nursery management student This book goes through the whole process of conducting an early years research study. It is an easy, logical read with a user-friendly contents page.

Make believe

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  • Wednesday, December 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Observing children engaged in role play can give early years staff some revealing insights and ideas for changes in practice, as Sue Rogers and Julie Evans found Young children's preoccupation with role play is widely recognised. Indeed, research studies show that children aged three to five engage in role play more than any other kind of play. Role play can help children to develop social competence, to explore language and ideas about the world, to appreciate the perspectives of others, and to develop empathy. Through their imaginative excursions, we see children examine concepts of space, place and time, as they move beyond belief into the exciting world of make-believe (White, J, TheChild's Mind, Routledge Falmer 2002). In other words, role play can help children to learn important life skills, many of which are uniquely human.

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