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DfES sticks to fund terms

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The DfES has reiterated its determination to ban top-up fees and insisted that childcare providers offer 38 weeks of 'free' nursery education. A letter sent to local authority chief executives last week from DfES official Grahame Archer 'was only reinforcing what was said by Beverley Hughes a month or so ago', according to a DfES spokeswoman.

Nurseries dispute CWDC's staff age survey results

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Nursery providers have expressed surprise at a claim by the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) that the average age of nursery staff is 32. The CWDC has stated that only 14 per cent of an estimated 100,000-strong nursery workforce are aged 29 and under - a finding that the director of one leading nursery chain described as 'bizarre'.

Parents polled on graduate EYPs

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  • Wednesday, August 30, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Parents want early years professionals to adhere to clear standards and possess knowledge, skills and relevant experience, but some parents believe that a degree may not be crucial, a report from the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) revealed last week. The CWDC asked 45 children and 29 parents and carers what they thought of the draft standards and what skills and behaviour they would expect from EYPs.

Little by little

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  • Wednesday, May 3, 2006
    • | Nursery World
When they enter nursery, children will probably already be familiar with small-world play, but it can be offered anew in all areas of your setting Most young children will have engaged with small-world play before they ever arrive in an educational setting. It is unlikely, however, that their families will ever have called it that! Playing with cars, trains, doll's houses, farm and zoo animals and a range of commercially produced toy people will simply have been an integral part of childhood.

At a loss

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  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The departure of the first Foundation Stage director could hardly have come at a worse time, early years practitioners and leaders agree. Mary Evans sounds out their feelings The early years sector has reacted to the resignation of Lesley Staggs from her prestigious post as national director of the Foundation Stage with shock, sorrow and anxiety about the future.

A budding musician demonstrates his talents in the new outdoor play area at Hayle Children's Centre

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - A budding musician demonstrates his talents in the new outdoor play area at Hayle Children's Centre, Cornwall. The instruments were provided by Perranuthnoe-based company Kif Guitars for the play area, which was officially opened on 13 August by Terry Lello, the county council's lead member for children, young people and families. Guests at the launch enjoyed live music and a barbeque. Photo Jim Wileman

Media watch

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Newborn babies should be held naked next to their mother's skin for the first hour after birth so the two can bond, reported the Daily Mail. According to Dr Mary Price, a lecturer in midwifery at the University of Salford, this 'golden hour' helps calm the baby, build up resistance to infection and get breastfeeding off to a good start.

Sustainability of services is a key concern for out-of-school childcare providers

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Sustainability of services is a key concern for out-of-school childcare providers, 4Children has found from its childcare helpline. Nine out of ten providers report sustainability and funding as their number one concern. A 4Children conference on funding and sustainability is will be held in London on 14 December. Visit www.4children. org.uk for details.

Eco-classroom makes space more flexible

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A 220,000 project to create an eco-classroom for Year Two at Stanley Infant and Nursery School in Richmond on Thames has won planning permission. The pioneering design is the result of a collaboration between construction company Framework CDM and architects Mark Dudek Associates. The project had to be functional and affordable and cause the least possible disruption to both the school and its environment.

Speaking and listening, reading and writing

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
ICT offers huge support in children's development of communication skills. Let's have a look at some ICT activities that help with communication, language and literacy skills.

Music corner

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  • Wednesday, August 23, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Using breath and voices expressively When you want to start group singing, these activities help children warm up their bodies and then sing more freely. Take these gently so that children don't get dizzy by holding their breath for too long.

Let down yet again

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
While I realise classroom assistants do a great job, I feel let down that nursery nurses, who have been trying both nationally and locally for a re-grading for many years - the last in Scotland being 20 years ago - are being bypassed again, with some councils even talking about downgrading them. Nursery nurses have to go to college for a minimum of two years while many classroom assistants train while on the job, yet some could be earning up to 20,000 while we nursery nurses at the top of our scale get just over 13,000.

From the heart

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Reading a young child's feelings and responding appropriately to them can be a tricky business for carers. Dr Richard Woolfson offers some helpful advice We are, by nature, communicative - we all have an innate need to communicate our feelings to others. Right from birth, the new baby expresses her emotions through the use of crying and other non-verbal means.

Philip Lawrence Awards

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  • Wednesday, August 16, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Groups of young people aged 11 to 20 who have made a special contribution to their community this year are being invited to enter the Philip Lawrence Awards. The annual competition is held in memory of headteacher Philip Lawrence, who was stabbed outside his school gates in Ealing, West London, while defending a pupil from attack in 1995. The five core themes in the awards are: combating violence, promoting community safety, advancing racial harmony, demonstrating good citizenship and supporting projects through schools. If you know or are part of a group that would be interested, visit www.4children.org.uk/pla/ by 15 September. The ten winning groups will receive 1,000 to invest in their projects.

Schoolchildren in Scotland

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Schoolchildren in Scotland are to be taught their rights and responsibilities as citizens in subjects across the curriculum. A national framework on education for citizenship from three to 18 years is recommended in the Education for Citizenship in Scotland report launched last week by deputy minister for education and young people Nicol Stephen. He said everything a school does 'should reflect positive citizenship'. The report was developed by a national review group chaired by Professor Pamela Munn of Edinburgh University.

Double awards for budding business

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children aged four to six at an Aberdeenshire primary school have won two awards for their entrepreneurial flair. The pupils at Monquhitter Primary School in Turriff received the awards as a result of their enterprise to raise funds to replace the cushions in the story corner.

Same job, less pay

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  • Wednesday, June 26, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I earn 13,099 a year as a nursery nurse, while the nursery teacher I work alongside earns more than 20,000. Granted, she is experienced, but why should I be carrying out the exact same job as her and be paid 10,000 less?

On course

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  • Wednesday, August 16, 2006
    • | Nursery World
2 October Developing a stimulating learning environment

Move it

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  • Wednesday, April 14, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A child's cluster of schemas is observed in the second in a series of articles by the Pen Green Centre team in dialogue with Chris Athey Chloe, age three years and six months, is in her second year at nursery. We have noticed her transporting objects around the nursery in various ways over a long time.

Fun and games

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  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Step into squares Include our squares game in a project on shape (see overleaf).

Between 2,000 and 3,000 nursery nurses marched through Glasgow

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  • Wednesday, May 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Between 2,000 and 3,000 nursery nurses marched through Glasgow on 19 May and then took part in a rally to kick-start the campaign by the public service union Unison to improve their pay, status and career structure. Unison Scotland is calling for a re-grading of all nursery nurses in the public sector, which would see top rates of pay rise from 14,800 to 20,000. Photo Ashley Coombes/ATOM

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