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Queen's Award for Busy Bees

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  • Monday, October 15, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Busy Bees was presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise at a special event held in recognition of its commitment to providing opportunities and training to thousands of childcare practitioners.

'Raise pay to raise status'

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The low rate of pay in childcare is the key to its current low status in society, according to a report by the Daycare Trust. All our futures: Putting childcare at the centre of every neighbourhood, published last week, said that if the Government was to make its national childcare strategy a reality, it needed to raise the status, training and qualifications of the childcare workforce, as well as recruiting more men and people from ethnic minorities.

In brief...An interactive conference

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An interactive conference in Midlothian on 19 May will focus on the emotional and therapeutic aspects of play. Workshops will include Scottish storytelling, drama and play, gym time and out-of-school care quality standards. The conference, to be opened by Rhona Brankin MSP, is for anyone working with children and young people. Entry costs 25 (15 for charities, voluntary organisations and students). For more information call Myra Henderson on 0131 271 3720.

Councils go for out-of-school package

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities across Britain are snapping up a pioneering Scottish-designed computer package which aims to take the pain out of managing an out-of-school club. Christine McGrory and Jacque-line Hughes, the directors of the Motherwell-based group of out-of-school clubs, kidsclubsdirect, launched their 'your club in a box' system in March this year. They have already received 100,000 worth of orders for the package, which includes both software and a PC and covers everything from how to start up a club to management and business planning. It provides guidance on meeting registration requirements and underpinning knowledge for the NVQ and SVQ in playwork.

House Plants

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  • Monday, November 26, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Children from Walton Pre-School in Essex have joined forces with a bereavement and friendship group to plant 200 daffodil bulbs donated by housebuilder Taylor Wimpey.

Parents note carers' low pay

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
More than 60 per cent of parents using daycare provision think childcare workers are poorly paid, according to a survey commissioned by the Daycare Trust and Unison. The research, published at the start of this week's National Childcare Week, found that staff are regarded by parents as the most significant factor in the provision of high-quality childcare. But two-thirds of parents are aware that the sector is lowly paid, while 19 per cent of parents believe that childcare staff are generally well-paid.

Figures show rise in care for three-year-olds

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  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Almost half the three-year-olds in England attend a private day nursery or pre-school, according to Government figures published last week. The figures show that of 541,300 three-year-olds in all daycare sectors, the number in the private and voluntary sectors increased from 268,000 (44 per cent of all three-year-olds) in January 2000 to 285,000 (47 per cent) in January 2001, an increase of 17,000. The number of three-year-olds funded by the nursery education grant in the private and voluntary sectors tripled from 6 per cent to 19 per cent during the same time, increasing by 79,900 from 37,000 to 116,900.

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Imaginative aids to creative play and movement are spotlighted by Laura Marcus MUSIC AND MOVEMENT

Lecturer heads up SINA training

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The recently re-launched Scottish Independent Nurseries Association has appointed early years lecturer and Nursery World contributor Alice Sharp to deliver work-based training from its new base in Glasgow. One of Ms Sharp's first tasks will be to steer the organisation through the process of being accredited by the Scottish Qualifications Authority to deliver SVQ training in early years care and education. The training will be co-ordinated from SINA's headquarters and will be open to practitioners in local authority nurseries and the voluntary sector as well as staff from independent nurseries.

In brief...The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill, which created the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care which is to take over responsibility for all daycare services from local authorities, received Royal Assent last week and officially became an Act. The new law also creates the Scottish Social Services Council, which will regulate the care workforce in Scotland, including nursery nurses, childminders and other childcarers. Welcoming the Act's Royal Assent, deputy health and community care minister Malcolm Chisholm said that it would ensure Scotland's children received care delivered to nationally-agreed standards.

My Best course - Rating the environment

    Features
  • Monday, October 20, 2014
    • | Nursery World
A course using the US-devised Environment Rating Scales for quality prompted Priya Dhanda, deputy manager of LEYF's Noah's Ark in Tower Hamlets, to reorganise her setting.

In brief...RAF nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An RAF nursery is holding an open day and summer fair on 21 July to celebrate the opening of its new extension. Teresa Hake, manager of RAF Coningsby Nursery Centre in Tattershall, Lincolnshire, said, 'We are a self-funding charity, and although the nursery is on Crown immunity land, it is outside the RAF station grounds. The RAF gave us the building and built the extension for us. The nursery caters not only for the children of RAF families but also for local children.' For details ring 01526 344 325.

Your questions answered

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
What courses do I need? 'I have an NVQ level 2 in Childcare and Education, and am working as a nursery assistant in a private nursery. I am interested in becoming a classroom assistant in a primary school, but don't know how to proceed. Are there courses I should attend?'

New rung on career ladder for assistants

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A work-based qualification for teaching assistants is under development and will be available by next year. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has designed a series of national occupational standards for teaching assistants working with children aged five to 14, which are currently being finalised and will be posted on the QCA's website this autumn. Schools can then begin to use them for internal performance appraisal and for drawing up job descriptions.

Good practice tips

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  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Celebrate the individuality of young children's achievements with the following ideas: * It has long been the tradition for a child to have his or her own peg at nursery. Offer children a special place of their own as well. It may be a shelf area or a box to hide 'treasure', gather interesting items or keep home toys in. This is an ideal way to allow children to develop their imagination and feel important. I have watched two-year-olds share items from inside their boxes with friends and three-year-olds 'trade' from their boxes.

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