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US firm buys Irish nursery chain

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The US childcare giant Bright Horizons Family Solutions has bought a stake in the Irish nursery market with the acquisition of Dublin chain Circle of Friends. The first Circle of Friends nursery opened just over a year ago, in December 1999. It offers 40 childcare places and a second nursery has 51 places. Bright Horizons' move follows its purchase of London-based Nurseryworks, now known as Nurseryworks Family Solutions, last June.

Cumbria Sure Start's first rural children's centre has opened in Kirby Thore

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  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Cumbria Sure Start's first rural children's centre has opened in Kirby Thore, next to the village's primary school. The centre focuses on antenatal and postnatal care, special needs support and parenting. It offers a lunch club where parents can access information about employment, training and local services, and the Crafty Kids group for parents and pre-school children.

Parents of children at Stonehaven

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  • Wednesday, April 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Parents of children at Stonehaven out-of-school club in Grampian were so impressed by the work of Phyllis Sinclair, the club's founder and co-ordinator (centre), that they nominated her for an international award. Phyllis was invited to a special ceremony held at Edinburgh Castle last month along with hundreds of other women who had been nominated for awards on International Women's Day for making a difference in their communities. Photo Nick Anderson

Mind and body

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  • Wednesday, April 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Outdoor activity is not just beneficial but essential to young children's mental, emotional and physical development, says Marjorie Ouvry Why is it that when we think back to our own childhoods, so many of the most outstanding and happy memories are of when we were outdoors? Building dens, walking along walls, rolling down grassy slopes, playing in mud, damming streams, doing risky things. Children today are no different. When asked what they like best about nursery, they invariably cite playing outside. Outdoor play is also vital for development. Children learn by moving, and movement needs space. Only through ready access to the outdoors and stimulating outdoor provision can a child's physical development, personal, social and emotional wellbeing and learning across the curriculum flourish.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel, primary inspector for Ofsted in the West Midlands with responsibility for the early years, The Times

Lone fathers find mutual support

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Anew project in a deprived area of Edinburgh is aiming to support the parents who may be the most likely to slip through the care net -single fathers. Run collaboratively by One Parent Families Scotland and Gilmerton Children's Centre, the Lone Fathers project will run outings for fathers and children to venues such as adventure playgrounds and swimming pools. It has attracted about 3,500 Sure Start funding, which project worker Jimmy Donald described as 'phenomenal'.

Fast Eddy buys into UK market

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  • Wednesday, January 3, 2007
    • | Nursery World
From its humble beginnings in 1988 - its first nursery was in a renovated church in suburban Brisbane - the Australian-based ABC Learning Centres has become the largest publicly-listed childcare operator in the world. It has accumulated 2,321 centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and, with the acquisition of 48 Busy Bees nurseries and its voucher business, it will have gained a vital toehold in the UK market (see box).

Great stuff!

    News
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Whether for learning, practical functions or just plain fun, choose from our monthly round-up of new resources by Melanie Defries In the bag

Backbench view

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  • Wednesday, January 24, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations are impressed with the Select Committee's report, but what, asks Anne Wiltsher, will happen after the election? At last recommendations for the early years from the Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment have been published. Totalling 55 and covering a wide remit (see below), the recommendations often go further than current Government policy.

Supporting Level 3

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  • Wednesday, January 3, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I could relate to everything that Julie Kent and Annette Jerram said in their column ('In my view', 7 December). I, too, believe that if the Government is not careful we are going to lose our already diminishing Level 3 qualified staff. The article on the Transformation Fund ('Special report', 7 December) highlights what we as professionals are crying out for.

OUTDOOR DELIGHTS

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  • Monday, September 5, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Children and staff at Little Acorns Urmston have a new garden.

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