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In the swim

    News
  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
It's not as hard as you think to organise an inclusive scheme - and children themselves are often the most creative at adapting activities, says Jane Muir Talking about the inclusive West Oxford Holiday Playscheme, which runs during the school summer holidays, Christina, aged 9, explains, 'We do games that everyone can play, you can use ordinary games and change the rules a bit so anybody can join in, you can make up some too.'

Allegations of inadequacy outrage nursery sector

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  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Childcare organisations have reacted with dismay to comments from the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) that staff in nurseries are in danger of creating 'the next generation of Vicky Pollards'. The National Day Nurseries Association said claims made by Deborah Lawson, the chair of PAT, that nursery staff were poor role models with inadequate language and social skills were 'insulting' and 'ridiculous'.

Two-year-olds - We can meet twos' needs, say schools

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  • Monday, February 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Some specialists have warned that schools will struggle to give two-year-olds sufficient support, but headteachers already caring for twos say they are well placed to succeed. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Money matters

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  • Monday, March 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children at Mulberry House School in West Hampstead set up their own bike and scooter wash as part of 'Money Day' to help them understand the value and use of money in daily life.

Portrait gallery

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  • Tuesday, June 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World

Children's great appreciation of their carers shone through in the National Childcare Month art competition run by Nursery World and the Daycare Trust

Staff and children

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  • Wednesday, October 16, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Staff and children at the Birrell Collection Nursery at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh keep seeing double, as there are three sets of twins in the nursery and one on the staff. Staff members Sheena and Sandra Simpson are pictured pairing up with Niamh and Patrick Ritchie (far left and far right), Rose and Olivia Hynd (centre), and Francis and Aidan Fraser (front).

New rights for fathers and adoptive parents

    News
  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
New rights for fathers and adoptive parents to paid time off, an extension of paid and unpaid leave for new mothers, and a right for the parents of young children to ask for flexible working conditions, are set out in the Employment Bill being debated in Northern Ireland. The Assembly's employment and learning minister, Carmel Hanna, said the world of work needed to react to the needs of the modern economy and of working parents. She said there would be costs to employers in setting up and administering new arrangements and in facilitating requests for flexible working. 'However, there will be advantages for employers too, with reduced recruitment and retraining costs,' she said.

Early years experience not essential

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The new Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care has been recruiting new officers - but has not specified that they should have any early years experience. A recent advertisement in The Scotsman specified that applicants should have 'extensive experience in a relevant occupational field such as education, social work or the health service', with no mention of early years.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, August 7, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'People found it hard to retain a friendship with me after the allegations were made. Girls I trained with to become a nursery nurse couldn't bear to be my friend any more. My family suffered so much it can't be put into words.' Dawn Reed, on how the paedophile allegations have affected her life, The Guardian

Diet risk to babies of teen mothers

    News
  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Many pregnant teenagers are putting their babies' health at risk because they cannot afford an adequate diet, a joint report by the Maternity Alliance and the Food Commission has claimed. The report, Good Enough to Eat?, published last week, found that two-thirds of pregnant teenagers living away from their family have a food budget of less than Pounds 20.25 per week - the estimated cost of a 'modest but adequate' diet - and that as money runs out they tend to eat less and fill up on cheap, unhealthy foods.

The New Community Schools

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The New Community Schools approach, which encourages the provision of integrated services focused on the needs of the child, is to be rolled out across 16 local authorities. Minister for education and children Cathy Jamieson said last week, 'I am delighted to confirm today the allocations of funding to 16 authorities to enable them to go ahead with this important work. We are still looking at the proposals we have received from the remaining authorities and we expect to come to our decisions on them within the next few weeks.' New Community Schools projects may involve a single school or clusters of schools, and often involve work across nursery, primary and secondary level.

Pack well before you slope off

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Thermals Remember it is well below freezing out there, so take the right stuff to stay warm - hats, gloves, scarves, even the right socks. You might want to get some thermals - they may not be glamorous, but they are a lifesaver in the cold. Anyway, no one can see them!

Hop to it!

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  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
There are many ways for young children to learn respect and appreciation for animals without keeping live ones in their school or nursery, as Marie Charlton explains Rabbits will hopping into focus in many schools and early years settings in the north-west of England next month when RSPCA Education Week gets underway.

Part of the plan

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Once practitioners are confident that they have a proper understanding of a child's schemas, they need to plan how to promote that child's learning. Part of the planning process will be to set the child's individual learning needs within the context of the Foundation Stage curriculum. Below are two case studies showing how practitioners identified children's schemas, then planned suitable resources and activities to produce what is sometimes called a scheme of work, that spans the six areas of learning, reflects the child's current interests and is appropriate to their stage of development.

Ticket for fraud?

    News
  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Under the new tax credit system introduced last month, parents only need a care provider's registration number to claim towards their childcare costs. Once parents have this number they could continue to claim childcare costs when they are not in fact using it.

A call for 'robust and effective child protection procedures

    News
  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A call for 'robust and effective child protection procedures to safeguard children' in Wales has come from the Welsh Assembly's health and social services minister. Speaking at the launch of the All Wales Child Protection Procedures, Jane Hutt said recent reports into abuse scandals had underlined the importance of agencies working together. She added, 'The Assembly government will take a lead on child protection issues where this is necessary, but I am keen to promote collaborative working and to encourage innovative ideas across all sectors. These procedures set out common standards for all of Wales to guide work in child protection, to make it clear how agencies can and should work together and to make sure that practice is consistent and of high quality.' The procedures were produced by area child protection committees from across Wales.

Advice

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Scope expert Lindsay Brewis suggests practical tips for caring for a child with cerebral palsy in your setting: * Seeing and hearing difficulties can be experienced by children with cerebral palsy. It is important always to make eye contact and make sure the child understands what is being said. Showing, as well as telling, can help.

Inter-agency help for deaf infants

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A 1m pilot scheme bringing inter-agency services to-gether to help children under two who have disabilities, including deafness, and their families, in England is being set up by the Government. Under the Early Support pilot programme, which is to be piloted in ten to 15 sites across the country, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) will be working alongside the Department of Health, the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), as well as service providers and other organisations, to offer help and practical assistance to young disabled children and their parents.

Spot a fun way to explain asthma

    News
  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'Charlie Cheetah loves sport at school, but every time he runs around he feels out of breath. Mrs Cheetah brought him to see me.' So begins Charlie Has Asthma (Haldane Mason, 4.99), one of a series of three Dr Spot books, designed to reassure children about particular health problems. Dr Spot is a friendly leopard GP with an exemplary bedside manner. Besides Charlie, his other animal patients to date are Harriet the Hippopotamus with tonsillitis, and Mike the Monkey with chickenpox. The books, aimed at children from three to seven years old, have been written by ex-nanny Jenny Leigh, who wished to marry her more current experience of working in healthcare communications with 15 years of looking after various sick charges, step-children and nieces and nephews. 'When they were ill I couldn't find books like this in the shops,' she says. Her niece's experience of asthma inspired her to write about Charlie Cheetah, and it is backed by the National Asthma Campaign. Three more books are planned - one about a lion with nits in his mane.

We've got our act together

    News
  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
By Anna Taylor, manager of First Steps Nursery in Salisbury, Wiltshire Our 50-place private day nursery in the centre of Salisbury has an excellent reputation and our feeder reception teachers frequently comment on how well our children do as they hit school.

In the round

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Circle time provides a great opportunity to show children how to behave towards others. Jennie Lindon offers ideas for how to make the most of this part of the day Circle time is probably familiar to many people as a phrase. But it takes some thought and sensitive planning to use it in ways that support children's learning, especially as a strategy to support and promote positive behaviour. Circle time can be used effectively for the broad range of what young children are learning. This article focuses on its application to behaviour.

A postcard from Venice...

    News
  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Jackie Cooke became the first employee to benefit from Child & Co's ten-year service award when she and husband Les spent four nights in Venice. 'It was a wonderful trip, relaxing and fascinating,' she said. They were due to spend a weekend in New York, and were planning to book their tickets at a travel agent's on September 11. But after the terrorist attacks, they decided to opt for Venice in October. 'It was such a different experience, basically you hardly see any cars. We stayed in a very posh hotel, went in a gondola and loved to stand on the bridges watching the postmen and dustmen work from their boats.'

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