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At the shops

    Other
  • Monday, February 23, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The pre-school children at Copper Beeches Day Nursery in Cheshire have been learning about money.

Learning & Development: Music - In concert

    Features
  • Tuesday, November 30, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children aged five and under were the select audience for a series of concerts and workshops, with training for practitioners, as described by Stuart Bruce and Matt Carwardine-Palmer of Orchestras Live.

Northern Ireland Childminding Association

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The benefits of childminding networks to employers will be explained in series of three seminars being held next month by the Northern Ireland Childminding Association, in partnership with Employers for Childcare. The seminars will highlight how networks are a cost-effective way for companies to support their staff because of the range of extra services they offer, including out-of-hours provision, long- and short-term cover, emergency back-up and occasional home-based care. The seminars are in Portadown (6 November), Coleraine (11 November) and Belfast (13 November). For more information, contact Carol Gallagher, NICMA regional childminding networks manager, on 028 9182 3350 or e-mail carol.gallagher@nicma.org.

Sats spelling test published in error

    News
  • Thursday, April 21, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education has come under fire after details of the Key Stage 1 spelling test for seven-year-olds appeared online by mistake.

Look here

    News
  • Wednesday, May 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The world is full of wonderful sights great and small, if you show children where to look. Jean Evans suggests simple activities to stimulate exploration through vision Look around you

Just visiting

    News
  • Wednesday, May 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The best way to share good practice is to go and see how other nurseries work, as June O'Sullivan found when she invited early years practitioners from Scotland to London Early years practitioners from Glasgow said it was a 'real eye opener' when they came to visit us at the Westminster Children's Society (WCS) in London earlier this month.

Boost your CPD with online courses

    News
  • Tuesday, December 7, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Laser Learning has launched a range of short online courses that offer professional development at Levels 2, 3 and 4. At Level 3 these include Observing Children, Partnerships with Parents, Managing Behaviour, Child Development and Inclusion. At Level 4 practitioners can access Health and Safety, Understanding Leadership and Management, and First Time Leadership.

Workload and funding crisis

    News
  • Wednesday, May 28, 2003
    • | Nursery World
By Dr Alan Marr, a research fellow in the Centre for Educational Policy and Management at the Open University Last month I wrote of the complexities surrounding the allocation of funds to schools. Since then there has been a continuing stream of media interest reporting claim and counter-claim by the Government, the employers and teachers' unions about responsibility for the mess ('Short changed', 24 April).

Points of view

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
If the opinions of young children are valuable to adults, whether as carers or policymakers, what is the best way to gather them? Alison Clark looks at successful consultations 'Why is it that we have a Father's Day and a Mother's Day but not a Children's Day?' asked one of the children in a pre-school session. The leader asked the children if they would like to have their own 'Children's Day'. They were thrilled to have their idea taken seriously, and worked with the adults to plan the event.

No milk today

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Our special dietary needs series continues with advice from Suzannah Olivier on how nurseries can provide for children who suffer from dairy allergy or intolerance A dairy allergy is an immune reaction which can be severe and can be similar to a peanut or other serious allergy. Only 1 to 2 per cent of children are believed to have actual food allergies. Possible reactions could be reddening skin, swelling lips, asthma attacks, projectile vomiting, swelling of the breathing tubes, or a serious drop in blood pressure, called an anaphylactic reaction.

Online ... See who's saying what at www.nurseryworld.co.uk

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 2, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I chose childcare because I didn't want to be stuck behind a desk or checkout, even though I could earn more doing that kind of work. I love working with children and I know that working in this sector can open many doors. - Kezzie - Nursery nurses' wages

Nursery activities

    News
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Encourage children to use numbers in everyday contexts by displaying theme-related number lines, says Julie Payne. Planned learning intentions

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, May 21, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'I bet (schools minister) David Miliband didn't have to pass an exam when he was six years old.' Sebastian McCarthy, aged six, who has just taken his Key Stage 1 SATs, The Observer

Scottish industrial action

    News
  • Wednesday, May 21, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nearly 4,500 Scottish nursery nurses who are members of the public services union Unison were expected to take part in a three-day programme of industrial action this week. Unison called the action, which was likely to affect 80 per cent of Scotland's nursery provision, in support of a pay and regrading claim first lodged in 2001. Nursery nurses in Glasgow planned to take part in a march on Tuesday to highlight their campaign for better salaries in recognition of their growing responsibilities.

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