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Scarecrow Festival

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

| Nursery World

Passers-by might have to look twice at a tableaux of nine young children climbing over a nursery wall at Gorseway nursery school in Hayling Island, Hampshire.

Caring and sharing

News

Wednesday, May 29, 2002

| Nursery World

This Early Excellence Centre has a well-developed system for sharing its ideas, as Julian Grenier found Val Buckett, the head teacher of Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, is not proud. 'Early Excellence is not about people coming in to admire us,' she says. 'It is an attempt to break through professional isolation and the lack of support experienced by many workers in the early years.'

Freeing us from risk and targets

News

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

| Nursery World

Freeing us from risk and targets By Tim Gill, play consultant and former director of the Children's Play Council

One voice must mean just one association

News

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

| Nursery World

I cannot agree with Alan Bentley's column ('To the point' and News, 17 May) and find it very contradictory. He is asking us to speak with 'one voice', but surely setting up a separate association is splitting the voice into smaller groups who will not have such an impact with the Government? Mr Bentley says that another association should speak for all childcare providers, 'whether they have one nursery or 100'. Yet he says that at the large providers' group meeting they are going to decide about setting up another association - what about the opinion of small nurseries? NDNA has worked hard to get recognition from the Government and local authorities. NDNA has always stood for quality care, a point that seems to be forgotten in the politics around childcare. NDNA has also always responded to anything contradictory in the media. It may not be perfect in meeting everyone's expectations, but it is there to fight our corner and will always listen to members' views. If more people supported NDNA instead of pulling the association apart, we would have a stronger, united voice.