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Consultation launched on eligibility for free places

    News
  • Friday, July 6, 2012
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education has launched a consultation asking for views on the criteria that local authorities should use for assessing parents' entitlement to free early education for two-year-old children.

Unison calls for Executive help

    News
  • Tuesday, March 9, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Striking nursery nurses have urged the Scottish Executive to intervene in their dispute with local authorities over pay and conditions.

Cocoa your dough

    News
  • Wednesday, December 10, 2003
    • | Nursery World
We were interested to read the original letter by Jane Mills ('Playdough anyone?', 25 September), as we have experienced the very same problems when making playdough using the cooked method that she described. The only successful recipe has been one using drinking chocolate or cocoa powder. We were concerned that the children would eat the playdough, but that has not been a problem.

Take twos...developing trusting relationships

    Features
  • Friday, July 6, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Working closely with parents to support home learning is every bit as important for two-year-olds as it is for older children. Here James Hempsall outlines how one pre-school has developed a structured approach to gaining parents' trust and support.

Art works

    News
  • Tuesday, December 9, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Children can give their creative impulses free rein if early years practitioners have carefully planned their provision of resources and activities, says Jane Drake in our Foundation Stage series

How to document

    News
  • Wednesday, February 4, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The skill of the educator lies not only in knowing how to support children through their learning experiences, but also how to observe, document and interpret the learning process, and so become a more effective teacher as a result. Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage notes that effective teaching requires:

Art and Max

    Review
  • Tuesday, April 19, 2011
    • | Nursery World
By David Wiesner, Andersen Press, hardback, 10.99

Bills unveiled in Queen's speech

    News
  • Wednesday, December 3, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Bills covering children's issues unveiled in last week's Queen's speech have been given a mixed response by organisations representing children's interests. The NSPCC welcomed the proposed legislation to reform services for children, and to create a children's commissioner in England. The charity also welcomed new laws on domestic violence, 'as there is a significant overlap between physical abuse of adults and physical abuse of children within family settings'. But the NSPCC expressed concerns about proposals to remove benefits from families whose asylum applications had failed and to place their children into care. It said, 'This will not be in the best interests of the child and there is a risk that, rather than be separated, families will seek to survive without support.'

Help for multiple births

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 29, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Families with twins, triplets and more, require specialist advice and support, say the co-leads of a new centre dedicated to their care

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