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Supermarket sweep

    Other
  • Monday, January 7, 2019
    • | Nursery World
A group from Southmoor Pre-School was invited to open a Co-op store in Kingston Bagpuize, Oxfordshire.

ContactPoint up and running in 17 authorities

    News
  • Tuesday, May 19, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The controversial online database ContactPoint, holding contact details for every child in England, is up and running in 17 local authorities in the north-west, children's secretary Ed Balls has announced. Around 800 professionals from children's services and charities Barnado's and KIDS began using it from Monday. It is due to be rolled out to the rest of England by summer (News, 27 January). The 17 'early adopter' local authorities have employed trained teams to manage data in their areas and to train frontline users. Work on updating the database was halted in April after some local authorities found flaws in shielding details of vulnerable children (News, 2 April).

'Access all areas' for centres in Leeds

    News
  • Wednesday, February 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Plans to open a children's centres in every area of Leeds have been unveiled by the city council. The first phase of the West Yorkshire city's children's centre programme, set to be completed by May, will see 23 children's centres servicing families in the city's most disadvantaged wards.

Unpaid quality

    News
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
My work colleagues and I were quite upset by the anonymous comments about qualified pay (Letters, 24 January). I am a qualified teaching assistant, having done three years at college and a lot of voluntary work, and yet I do not get paid in school holidays because I am on the supply list.

Emotional problems forum

    News
  • Tuesday, May 26, 2009
    • | Nursery World
A new online forum for carers and parents of young people with emotional problems follows on from the success of the YoungMinds telephone helpline and is backed by The Sun newspaper's agony aunt Deidre. The forum is at www.shareyourstory.org.uk.

Back to basics: What's important

    News
  • Tuesday, March 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners may feel caught between official targets and parents' anxious expectations, against their better judgement. Jennie Lindon recalls the essentials

Quality scheme for daycare is set for launch in autumn

    News
  • Wednesday, March 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The star-rating quality scheme for daycare providers announced by the Government a year ago is to be introduced in England this autumn. Schools standards minister Stephen Timms told the tenth annual conference of the Kids' Clubs Network in London today (Thursday) that the aim of the scheme, Investors in Children, is 'to help parents choose what's right for their children by providing a simple, practical guide to the quality of care and education'.

Project guide

    News
  • Wednesday, August 22, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This four-part project outlines the Design and Technology Fun Week and some of the topic work that Chertsey Nursery School organised as part of its whole- school, term-long project based on four of Eric Carle's books: * The Very Lonely Firefly - hallway.

To boldly go

    News
  • Wednesday, August 22, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Toys for babies of six to 12 months old should appeal to their appropriate motor and sensory skills. Jenny Benjamin examines the options for stimulating objects to stock the nursery By six months old, babies are already seasoned explorers. They have eyeballed, grabbed, fingered, mouthed and dropped many objects, and they are beginning to get an idea, albeit a sensory one, of what their world is like. After six months their explorations become more sophisticated. Their fine motor skills have improved, so that, by nine months, they can manipulate objects more carefully, turning them over and passing them easily from hand to hand. By one year old, they will also be able to use thumb and index finger in the pincer grip. These bigger babies are likely to hold on to things for longer, unlike the younger ones, who will drop an item and demand another immediately.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, January 25, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Nursery World's Outdoor Challenge, run with Learning Through Landscapes, has become an incredibly popular annual event. This week we launch the 2006 competition, with a fantastic 9,000 worth of prizes including a tailor-made shade sail from Keep it Kool, lots of great NES Arnold equipment, advice from LTL and more. Awareness of how important good outdoor provision is for young children is growing, and practitioners cite lack of suitable opportunities as one of the biggest challenges in meeting curriculum objectives. We hope our competition will highlight the need to support settings in improving their facilities and practice, and for theGovernment to regulate to make access to good outdoor play mandatory for all children. Entering the Outdoor Challenge will help your setting to reflect on current provision, identify ideas for development, and gain the motivation to put them into practice - and you could be a winner! We've also got several new features starting this week. Many practitioners still feel a lack of confidence about working with babies and toddlers, so Jennie Lindon's new series on the applying the principles of the English and Scottish birth-to-threes guidance should be invaluable. Plus, Jenny Mosely, renowned for her circle time work, tackles child behaviour problems, and Andrew Trythall of Sir Robert Hitcham's School has great ICT ideas.

On the surface

    News
  • Wednesday, August 22, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Understanding the functions and reactions of skin will help you decide how to respond to conditions seen on the children in your care, writes Maggie Jones Our skin is one of the most important organs of the body and our main interface with the world. It protects the internal organs, helps resist bacteria and other infections, and even expresses our feelings - turning red when we blush, or pale when we are afraid.

A new series of Play Awards is being launched by the Pre-school Learning Alliance

    News
  • Wednesday, January 25, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A new series of Play Awards is being launched by the Pre-school Learning Alliance to highlight the importance of play in child development and recognise those whose work promotes it. Parents and carers of children under five can nominate early years workers in categories including outstanding early years group, outstanding carer network, outstanding individual practitioner and outstanding childminder. The awards will be given in London during National Play Week in June. There are cash prizes for winning groups and Fisher-Price learning toys for those who nominate them. Call 01628 500 303 or e-mail ukpress.office@ mattel.com for an entry form. Nominations close on 31 March.

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