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Then I'll begin...Activities

    News
  • Wednesday, November 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
. . . as you are sitting comfortably. Miranda Walker explores how a playworker's storytelling can fire the imagination of children, improve literacy skills and build a magical bond between storyteller and audience A well-told story can be more than entertaining - it can be magical, exciting and intriguing. If you've ever watched a group of children listening to a good storyteller than you'll know just how special the experience can be. But what's the difference between telling a story and reading one, and how can playworkers give storytelling a try?

Wax works

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  • Wednesday, November 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Now that winter draws on, light up creative activities with the ancient craft of candle-making. Lynne Garner shows you how to get started on a pastime the children at your club could find satisfying and fun It would perhaps seem strange to those generations that relied on the humble candle as their source of light that we would turn our backs on a far more convenient source - the light bulb! However, the candle now has a special significance for many of us. For example, children expect candles to be placed upon birthday cakes to aid in the celebration of another year passing. Many of us light a candle to remember those who are no longer with us.

Software review

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  • Wednesday, November 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
First up is PicturePoint by Logotron. Children collect their information by clicking pictures on screen representing the items being counted. Sounds indicate each time a selection is made, and the name of the item and the number of times it has been selected is spoken. PicturePoint will then create speaking bar charts, pie charts or pictograms of the data, updated as new counts are added, so that children can see the connection between their counting and the graph. The software includes configurable sound, display, printing and speaking options to help adapt to the needs of the classroom. Supported by excellent documentation, PicturePoint is also packed with a host of example files as well as being able to create your own. Topic files include Eye Colour, Music, Shapes, School Dinners, Pets, Sports, Rubbish, Family, Colours, Homes, Weather, Dice, Footwear and Journeys.

Would like to meet

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  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
How do you find a man if you work among women and children? Sue Hubberstey offers some advice It may make a nanny's heart sink to read the research estimate that nearly half the population now meet their future partners at work. Chance would be a fine thing of that happening to you. Of course, all it means is that, like the remaining half of the population, you will have to find other ways and means of meeting the opposite sex.

Make a splash

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  • Tuesday, November 11, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Pool your observations with the staff team for effective learning through water play, as Jane Drake continues our series on planning in the long, medium and short terms

Friend of the family

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  • Tuesday, November 11, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A family inclusion worker is working wonders for nursery children who have special needs and their parents, reports Wendy Scott

Trainees count as nursery staff

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery operators may be allowed to count young trainees as up to half of their accredited staff, under an amendment in Ofsted's guidance to the Government's national standards for daycare in England.

Punishment curbs on Scottish parents

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Parents in Scotland are no longer legally permitted to use certain types of physical force to punish their children. Section 51 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003, which became law on 27 October, has made it illegal for parents to punish children by shaking them, hitting them on the head, using a belt, cane, slipper, wooden spoon or other implement.

Chain fined for death of baby

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Aleading nursery chain will have to pay nearly Pounds 80,000 over the death of a baby in its care. Jigsaw Day Nurseries was fined 60,000 and ordered to pay 19,000 costs by a judge at Aylesbury Crown Court last week, after admitting to safety failures that led to the death of five-month-old Thomas Egan in April last year. The baby had been fed a breakfast cereal that contained cow's milk protein to which he was allergic.

HR Update - Keep references strictly accurate

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 16, 2010
    • | Nursery World
As a nursery owner you are responsible for ensuring the suitability of the people you recruit to work in your setting, and there are many things to consider to ensure you comply with employment legislation and the safeguarding of children.

Down's Syndrome Association

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The Down's Syndrome Association has won the Books for Learning and Teaching Award for its education support pack. The award was presented at the special needs conference held by the National Association for Special Educational Needs and the Times Educational Supplement last week at the Business Design Centre in London. The pack is a practical guide for mainstream schools that include pupils with Down's Syndrome. It gives information on successful inclusion, methods for improving literacy and numeracy, and a range of curriculum-based teaching materials. It costs 15from the Down's Syndrome Association, 155 Mitcham Road, London SW17 9PG or by phone on 020 8682 4001. The pack can also be downloaded free from the charity's website www.downs-syndrome.org.uk.

Man about town

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  • Tuesday, October 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
It's a busy week for Toby Stewart as a social inclusion co-ordinator for the Humber Pre-school Learning Alliance

Just Learning

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery chain Just Learning has opened a 1m, 112-place purpose-built nursery in Norwich and acquired two new nurseries in the Wavertree area of Liverpool. This brings the group's total number of sites to 60 and the number of registered places past the 5,000 mark for the first time. Just Learning chief executive Michael Fallon said, 'The 5,000-place milestone is a significant achievement for Just Learning and one which we are delighted to pass with these three new sites joining the group.' The chain has jumped from sixth to second place in the Nursery World league table of the UK and Ireland's largest nursery chains. For details, see the latest edition of Nursery Chains that comes free with this week's issue. The first director general for children anor Education and Skills, which was formed after the transfer of

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