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Comedy explores the pre-school world

    News
  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A playwright who owned her own nursery for 13 years has turned the stresses and strains of an Ofsted inspection into a comedy, where yoghurt is banned because of health and safety fears.

Paul Bonel

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  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Paul Bonel, head of playwork at SkillsActive, Nursery World contributor, and co-author of the book Playwork: A Guide to Good Practice, passed away in January.

Free to play

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  • Wednesday, September 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Playwork training and qualifications are underpinned by essential values and assumptions. The first assumption is that: 'Children's play is freely chosen, personally directed behaviour, motivated from within; through play, the child explores the world and their relationship with it, elaborating all the while a flexible range of responses to challenges they encounter; by playing, the child learns and develops as an individual.' The second assumption is: 'Whereas children play without encouragement or help, adults can, through the provision of an appropriate human and physical environment, significantly enhance opportunities for the child to play creatively and thus develop through play.'

DfE takes on wider role in PM's reshuffle

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  • Thursday, July 14, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Newly appointed education secretary Justine Greening takes on an expanded government department, which will include responsibility for further education, higher education and skills.

Social Enterprise: 'Settings need business flair'

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  • Wednesday, November 21, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Settings need to be more business-minded and receive more practical support to make a success of social enterprise childcare in London, representatives at an inaugural round-table event concluded last week.

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* We have 20 copies of Tall by Jez Alborough (Walker Books, 5.99) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Tall', to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first 20 names drawn on 10 August. Nursery World (TSL Education Ltd) and its associated companies may from time to time wish to process, or disclose your data to approved third party companies, in order to monitor our service and send you future promotions.

15 hours...extending the nursery day

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Moving from sessional care to a flexible offer presents a challenge with variable attendance patterns throughout the day, as Deepdale Community Pre-school in West Yorkshire found

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