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Work matters: Finance

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Ian Murchie, relationship director in the Barclays Commercial Bank Healthcare Team (ian.murchie@barclays.com), looks at areas to consider when investing surplus cash.

GREEN FINGERS

    Other
  • Monday, October 3, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Children at the Co-operative Tadworth Nursery in Surrey are getting a garden revamp with the help of the local community.

People and places a monthly round-up

    News
  • Wednesday, March 21, 2007
    • | Nursery World
* Nursery worker Mavis Weaver will be treated to a big party at the end of the month when she retires from the nursery she co-founded over 30 years ago. Daisy Hill Pre School in Westhoughton, Lancashire was set up in 1974 to fill a lack of provision in the area and now cares for 30 children. * A Sea Cadets day nursery held nautical-themed celebrations for its 40th birthday this month. The Resolution Nursery in Swindon is a not-for-profit organisation providing care for 26 children. It takes its name from its close relationship with the Sea Cadets whose building it shares. Children hung up fish mobiles and paper boats for the party.

EYP Update: Pioneering new pathways

    Features
  • Tuesday, March 3, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Pilot programmes for new routes to achieving Early Years Professional Status are now well underway. While CWDC proposed two broad models for pilots, a number of different approaches have been approved.

MPs push for speech help

    News
  • Tuesday, March 20, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A new all-party parliamentary group launched last week is aiming to raise awareness of the importance of early intervention in identifying young children with speech and language difficulties.

Durham teaching assistants vote to strike over pay

    News
  • Monday, October 31, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Nearly 1,000 teaching assistants in Durham have voted overwhelmingly to strike over plans by Durham County Council to cut their pay, which will see some lose nearly a quarter of their wages next April.

In character

    Other
  • Monday, September 8, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children across the UK are being invited to dress up as their favourite Roald Dahl characters as part of the Dahlicious Dress Up Day on 26 September in aid of Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity.

Scrap materials were recycled and transformed into bees, butterflies and similar puppets

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2007
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Scrap materials were recycled and transformed into bees, butterflies and similar puppets by children including three-year-old Thomas Stell when they attended a storytelling session at Denby Dale library in south Yorkshire. The library joined in the BBC's BreathingSpaces campaign to urge communities to make a difference in environmentally-friendly ways.

Courses and conferences

    News
  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
9 December. Meeting the needs of very young disabled children This conference by the National Children's Bureau will aim to build on the exciting possibilities of the new initiatives for special needs children in the early years, and try to allay any feelings of trepidation that change inevitably brings.

Vulnerable families value childcare

    News
  • Wednesday, January 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Families who are under stress and receiving support from social services find access to childcare particularly helpful, according to a study published by the Scottish Executive last week. Growing Support: A Review of Services for Vulnerable Families with Very Young Children is drawn from a survey of vulnerable families with children under three who had used social work services in different parts of Scotland. More than a third of the families had been the subject of child protection enquiries and more than a quarter had a history of domestic abuse. More than half the families were headed by a lone parent and almost one in five were affected by mental illness, usually that of a parent or partner, while a similar proportion had a history of drug dependency or alcohol abuse.

Children look up to the big boys

    News
  • Wednesday, January 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A nursery in Falkirk has come up with a novel project involving teenage boys from the secondary school next door. Sixth year students from Grangemouth High School are giving up free lessons to help with activities at neighbouring Inchyra nursery, which some of them used to attend. The 17- and 18-year-olds volunteer for a maximum of two school periods a week.

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