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Endangered by bureaucracy

    News
  • Wednesday, November 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
By Ian McLaughlan, chief executive, Scottish Pre-school Play Association 'We can't do it anymore,' said a delegate at the national early years conference, 'Placing Children First', organised by the Scottish Pre-school Play Association (SPPA). Volunteers made impassioned pleas over the burdens of responsibility to comply with increasing levels of bureaucracy and regulation.

Rising to inspections

    News
  • Wednesday, November 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I have followed with interest all of your articles on getting ready for inspection, and have found them very informative. As a team, we are pro-active and constantly review, monitor and change as we progress as a team. As soon as the Birth to Three Matters framework was delivered, we began to look at ways to implement it. We work with it in our baby room, but also run it alongside the Foundation Stage in our mixed age group with children from two to five years. The two run extremely well together, and we find that when children are ready for the Foundation Stage it is a seamless transition from Birth to Three Matters.

Star qualities

    News
  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Traditional Christmas images can help reinforce children's understanding of shape and pattern, as Lena Engel demonstrates with these seasonal activities Early learning goal

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    News
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The best photo of the week will win 30 worth of children's books

Scrap the tests and get good results

    News
  • Wednesday, April 30, 2003
    • | Nursery World
What excellent news that three more national organisations are joining forces to campaign for teacher assessment and the scrapping of tests for six- and seven-year-old children in England ('Alliance targets KS 1 testing', News, 17 April). Since last September I have worked across England with nearly 3,000 Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 practitioners. They are unanimous in their dislike of the tests and cite good reasons - the tests narrow (ie dumb down) the curriculum for five- to seven-year-olds; the targets are set in order to get 'good' test results and put pressure on the Foundation Stage to be too formal; classroom assistants and teachers talk about the growing number of children disaffected by the age of six (particularly boys and children with special needs); and the pressure of preparing for the tests lowers staff morale.

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