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Super software

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
KSI teacher Margaret Edwards makes her own recommendations Lollipop Software from Lollipop Learning is an interesting innovation that introduces children-and teachers! - to the concept of website design through an easy to use wizard. It also allows children to send and receive email in a secure environment. Typically, I first tried it without using the written manual, which I guess many busy people try to do, and came a cropper as I had not uploaded any images. Once I tried again with the user guide, it did what it should be doing, although it did seem out of sync to upload the images before doing anything else. I do have some reservations about this product. For instance, as I was completing the wizard to create the first page it wasn't clear to me which bits of text would be where on the page; it would be better if one could type straight on to the page. It also took ages to upload and move the pictures around, but we haven't got Broadband yet. We have a technician who is in the process of designing and building a website for us, but if this were not the case I would consider Lollipop, despite some quibbles. This is because it is easy for the children to use and also very reasonably priced, at 350 for a whole school website.

The number of three-and four-year-olds in Britain's schools has trebled

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The number of three-and four-year-olds in Britain's schools has trebled over the past 30 years, Government statistics show. The 32nd edition of Social Trends, published last week by the Office for National Statistics, said that as a result of the rise in pre-school-age children enrolled in schools, the total number of playgroups and pre-schools in 2001 fell to 14,000, which was 300 fewer than in 2000. The number of places also fell by 23,000 - a six per cent drop - to 330,000 in 2001. But there are now 12 times the number of out-of-school club places for children aged five to seven in England than there were a decade ago. In 2001, 4,900 out-of-school clubs provided 152,800 places for five-to seven-year-olds, compared with 350 clubs in 1992. Among other areas profiled in Social Trends, the report noted 'a highly-significant increasing trend' in the proportion of nought- to four-year-olds who are overweight. But children's dental health has improved in recent years. In 1999/2000, 60 per cent of five-year-olds had no decayed, missing or filled teeth compared with 56 per cent in 1989. The report also noted that the number of families with dependent children headed by a lone parent is three times higher than it was in 1971.

Work Matters: On course

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 11, 2008
    • | Nursery World
26 NOVEMBER. Including me: Working with children with complex health needs. Participants on this National Children's Bureau course will hear case studies of good practice to gain an understanding of the needs of children with complex health needs, consider the implications for their own practice, and learn about the legislation that underpins the inclusion of children in schools and early years settings and how to design policies and procedures to use in their own workplace.

A can of worms

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government may not have guessed what a complicated set of issues it was opening up when it said it wanted to enhance the role of teaching assistants, says Dr Alan Marr The Government is pushing ahead with its plans to develop an enhanced role for classroom assistants. After ministers insisting for months that the rise in numbers of teaching assistants (TAs) was unrelated to teacher shortages and denying that they were a cheap option to paper over recruitment difficulties, recent statements have suggested that the Government does now view TA employment as going some way to alleviating the problem.

Interview - Beatrice Merrick

    Other
  • Friday, September 20, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Beatrice Merrick, new chief executive of Early Education, previously director of services and research at the UK Council for International Student Affairs.

Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition preview

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
There's a wealth of things to see and do at this year's Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition in Manchester. Come along to see the very latest equipment, attend informative seminars and pick up top-notch ideas from leading early years and primary professionals. Held at the G-Mex Centre, this is the only professional exhibition dedicated solely to the early years and primary age group.

Picture-taking at nursery reviewed

    News
  • Wednesday, January 29, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A review of photographing and filming at children's events is underway after parents of pupils at Strathburn Nursery in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, launched a protest petition. Parents were furious when they were told they would not be allowed to photograph their children's first nativity play. One mother said, 'They are making everyone lose out on a very precious part of their family's life. No group photos were allowed. It was only your own child propped against a bare wall. It was such a shock and disappointment.'

Take twos - stretching the offer

    Features
  • Monday, May 19, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Stretching the two-year-old offer across the year has the potential to make life easier for children and families - and has advantages for providers as well, says James Hempsall.

Surrogacy families

    News
  • Wednesday, February 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Surrogacy families: parental functioning, parent-child relationships and psychological development at age two Second phase of a longitudinal study of families created through surrogacy. Around the child's second birthday, 37 surrogacy families were compared with 48 egg donation families and 68 natural conception families. Surrogacy mothers showed more positive parent-child relationships, and surrogacy fathers had lower levels of parenting stress. Surrogacy children did not differ from the natural conception children with respect to socio-emotional or cognitive development.

Nursery Chains: 30 hours - Open all hours

    Features
  • Monday, November 13, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The roll-out of the 30 hours offer in September has been met with a mixed reaction in the sector. Charlotte Goddard speaks to chains of various sizes to find out how they are coping with delivery

Primary packages

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Head teacher, Laurence Keel, assesses software covering art, 3-D animation and staff development Kahootz is a software package that is primarily designed for upper KS2 pupils and older. It allows the user to create an animated 3-D scene, or a sequence of scenes, from a resource bank containing settings and objects.

Kiwi fruit

    News
  • Wednesday, February 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Nutritional value By weight, kiwi fruit are the most nutrient-dense fruit we eat. They are rich in potassium and have useful amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, some B vitamins and vitamin E. They have more vitamin C than oranges: a quarter of a kiwi fruit will supply a young child's daily requirement. The enzyme actinidin aids digestion, and the fibre in a kiwi fruit helps keep children regular. High in phytochemicals, kiwi fruit can help prevent a range of diseases including heart disease. They boost the immune system and offer substantial protection against the kind of DNA damage that can cause cancer.

The Big Picture - Hetty on show

    News
  • Monday, May 29, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Foundling Museum in London has opened a family-friendly exhibition devoted to Hetty Feather – Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s young Victorian heroine

Nurseries want to abandon scheme

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Cuts to the nursery education grant (NEG) that private nurseries in Northumberland receive from the local authority are prompting them to consider withdrawing from the scheme. Lisa Lowes, owner of the Rainbow Day Nursery in Alnwick, said the reduction from 406 per child per term last year to 375 in the current year had provoked an angry reaction from providers.

Nord Anglia looks to future

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Nord Anglia Education, the UK's largest nursery chain with more than 10,200 places, announced last week that it had completed the reorganisation of its nursery division several months ahead of schedule. In a statement giving a year-end update to shareholders, the company said that the outlook for the new financial year was 'positive'. It said, 'The directors anticipate a substantially increased contribution from the nursery division in the new financial year, reflecting the maturing profile of the group's portfolio.'

Quality scheme 'can offset scare stories'

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Independent Nurseries Association is calling for a national quality assurance scheme for all early years settings in Scotland to reassure parents in the wake of a spate of scare stories in the media. SINA director Mairi Maciver Clark said she envisaged that such a scheme would be similar to Investors in People status, but apply to all early years care and education providers, whether in the voluntary, private or local authority sectors.

Term-time staff set to win full-time deal

    News
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Term-time school support staff in Northern Ireland look set to accept proposals put forward by the Province's five Education and Library Boards which will give them full-time contracts and benefits. Acceptance of the draft proposals tabled by Board management on 20 December, the day before the end of term, would bring the long-running 16-month dispute to an end. NIPSA, the trade union representing the 5,000 classroom assistants, secretaries and technicians affected, gave the proposals a very warm welcome and said it had now put plans for strike action 'on hold' while it sought clarification of some points.

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