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Jamie Oliver's 'Feed Me Better' campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
* Jamie Oliver's 'Feed Me Better' campaign has produced a double DVD of the hugely successful TV series, Jamie's School Dinners. Disc 1 contains the four TV episodes with an expletive-free option so the DVD can be played to children. Disc 2 has exclusive extras including a seasonal fruit and vegetable calendar, classroom activities, a food diary, a sample recipe, and Jamie's top tips on getting children to try new foods. The DVD costs Pounds 15.99 and is available in shops from 16 June.

Interest shown in academies

    News
  • Tuesday, June 8, 2010
    • | Nursery World
More than 1,000 schools have applied to become academies following the Department for Education's plan to expand the scheme.

Teaching peace

    News
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Young Palestinians and Israelis are learning to live together in this unique setting, writes Eve Menezes Cunningham It may be difficult to imagine surviving day to day in occupied Palestine, but the staff at Hope Flowers Kindergarten and School are doing more than just surviving by refusing to give up their visions of peace, democracy and hope for their country. They provide a sanctuary as well as education for the children in their care.

Nursery places shut to refugee children

    News
  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Children of asylum-seekers and refugees are missing out on nursery places which could provide opportunities to settle in, feel safe and play which are unavailable in their home environments. School places for asylum-seekers in Glasgow, which now has more than 600 such children in its schools, are funded through a contract between Glasgow City Council and the National Asylum Support Service, the arm of the Home Office which deals with asylum-seekers. But the contract covers only school provision and does not supply funding for the under-fives.

Making space for play

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 27, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Professor Cathy Nutbrown shows why, in the words of Comenius and Confucius, 'it is better to play than do nothing'.

Councils learn of Sure Start allocations

    News
  • Wednesday, December 14, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Sure Start budgets were revealed last week in the local authority children's services funding for 2006 to 2008. Sure Start local programme funding has been rolled into the General Sure Start Grant (GSSG) from 2006/2007, which will also include funding for workforce transformation during this period.

Open day

    Other
  • Friday, September 6, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Happy Child in Mottingham held an open day with lucky dips, a fortune-teller and a coconut shy.

New 'living wage' to put sector under further pressure

    News
  • Monday, August 10, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries will be forced to put up their fees and employ younger staff and fewer well-qualified staff to cope with the introduction of the ‘national living wage’ (NLW), according to research by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).

Just the place for child safety awareness

    News
  • Wednesday, June 27, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* A child safety scheme is putting accident awareness in its place. Placemats produced by Swansea Sure Start and distributed by Swansea NHS Trust to the families of children when they are seen for assessments at the ages of eight months, two years and three years, ask 'How safe is your jungle?'. They identify the main four reasons for young children's attendance at hospital accident and emergency departments - scalds, falls, poisons and lack of car safety.

Listening to Young Children

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 30, 2010
    • | Nursery World
by Y Penny Lancaster and Perpetua Kirby, Thomas Coram Foundation (Open University Press, 174.99, ISBN: 9780335241279)

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