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CfBT acquires Manor Tree to take Top 20 slot

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Centre for British Teachers (CfBT), the not-for-profit education and training company, announced on Monday that it had acquired the Manor Tree group of nurseries, a chain with eight settings based in the south-east of England and London. The Manor Tree Group was previously the 17th largest nursery operator in the UK and Ireland, with 806 places (Nursery Chains, summer 2005). Its five standalone nurseries are in West Norwood in London, and Binfield, Iver and Slough in Berkshire. It also has three nursery units attached to independent schools in Berkshire and Surrey.

Autistic children to learn family communication

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new therapy is aiming to develop communication skills between pre-school autistic children and their parents. A four-year trial of Pre-School Autism Communication has received 1.3m of funding from the Medical Research Council and will be conducted at the University of Manchester. It will study the effectiveness of a treatment to improve parent/child communication and develop the social and language skills of autistic children aged between two and five before they start school.

Council gives nursery stay of execution

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A consultation into primary and nursery school provision in east Lancashire which threatens at least one nursery school with closure has been extended until next spring. Lancashire County Council launched a major review into provision in May, after a report revealed a surplus of more than 1,000 places in Rossendale's nursery and primary schools (Nursery World, 26 May).

Nursery Equipment: Editor's view

    Features
  • Tuesday, May 3, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Personal, social and emotional development (PSED) has always been at the heart of the early years curriculum, and its importance has once again been made clear in the review of the EYFS by Dame Clare Tickell. She is recommending that PSED, along with communication and physical development, becomes a 'prime' area of learning in the revised curriculum.

Playgroup wins quality mark for teaching

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  • Wednesday, August 21, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A Welsh playgroup has become the first to be awarded the Basic Skills Agency Primary Quality Mark in recognition of its high standard of teaching in literacy and numeracy. Castleton Baptist Church Playgroup in Newport can display the Primary Quality Mark to show that it provides a framework for continuous improvement of the basic skills of the 43 children in its care. To gain the award, the playgroup was visited by accredited assessors who had to be satisfied that it placed a high priority on developing each child's numeracy and literacy skills by assessing and reviewing progress, encouraging parents to work with children, implementing an action plan to improve children's skills and providing staff training.

Arts in action

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Young children broadened their cultural horizons and stretched their artistic talents in a unique project that brought satisfaction to all concerned, as Marie Charlton reports In 2003, the Arts Council England launched its DECIBEL project to 'raise the voice of culturally diverse arts in Britain'. As an early years consultant, I saw it as an exciting chance to nurture the creativity of young children in St Helens, Merseyside, by combining the passion of local black and Asian artists with early years work in an area that is dominated by a white British monoculture.

Survey respondents

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  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A total of 1,081 Nursery World readers took part, with one in five respondents coming from the south-east, 15 per cent from the Midlands, 11 per cent from the south-west and the rest fairly evenly spread across the UK. More than a quarter work as managers/leaders and a fifth as nursery nurses/nursery assistants. Nearly a third of the people who took part work in a private nursery/nursery school, about a quarter work in pre-schools, 12 per cent in maintained settings and just under 10 per cent in Sure Start schemes and children's centres.

Nursery activities

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  • Wednesday, March 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Making bookmarks during a 'night and day' topic provided an ideal opportunity for our children to develop their manipulative skills and to learn how to handle books with understanding. Planned learning intentions

On the rocks

    News
  • Wednesday, August 21, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Heather Gillies, manager of Glasgow's Clutha Street Day Nursery, which has an award-winning garden Our children were attracted to the top corner of our courtyard even though it was not a very interesting area of the nursery. (Could it have been because it was as far away from the staff as they could possibly get?). So we decided to create a rockery there to brighten up the area.

Northern Ireland Childminder of the Year

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  • Wednesday, September 21, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Childminders in Northern Ireland can be nominated by parents for the 2005 Childminder of the Year award run by dairy manufacturer Cow & Gate in association with the Northern Ireland Childminding Association. Nominees must be a member of NICMA and entered by 14 October. First prize is 500, with five runner-up prizes of 50, and the nominator of the winner will receive 100. Call 9181 1015 for a nomination form or e-mail naomi.patrick@gcasgroup.com.

Private nurseries body makes a stand across UK

    News
  • Wednesday, August 14, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) has published future plans that would see it leading the field in nursery management training and business support. The organisation's Strategic Plan 2002-06 states, 'Of all NDNA's aims, raising the quality of care is fundamental.

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