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A unique child: Health - Room to grow

    Features
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Promoting good health in children is about more than diet and exercise, say Alison Tonkin, Cath Alderson and Gill Roberts as they report on a new project.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Children have the same rights to acceptable minimum standards of care under the law, regardless of what type of setting they are in. National standards should be truly national.' National Day Nurseries Association chief executive Rosemary Murphy , on the review of the national standards for daycare and childminding

Child protection must 'include smacking'

    News
  • Wednesday, October 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
An alliance of more than 180 organisations committed to children's rights has criticised the Government for not referring to smacking in its child protection Green Paper, Every child matters. The Children's Rights Alliance for England, in its annual review of UK Government action on the UN convention on the rights of the child, published last week, said, 'The Green Paper, aimed at reforming child protection, does not mention smacking.

Child health: Obesity target is re-set

    News
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The Government has been forced to go back on its target for halting child obesity by 2010 as new figures reveal that a quarter of children are obese when they start school.

Professional Nanny conference

    News
  • Wednesday, October 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
At the Professional Nanny conference in London on 4 October, Diana Muir, producer of the television documentary 'Who's looking after your child?' (News, 10 April), voiced her support for a national register of nannies.

Joint success in inspections

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The results of the first joint care and education inspections of early years settings in Scotland have just been published following a pilot programme carried out in November and December 2002. The new integrated inspections aim to simplify and rationalise the inspection process by co-ordinating visits from the Care Commission's inspectors and HM Inspectorate of Education (News, 12 September 2002).

Stick together

    Other
  • Monday, October 6, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children at the Britwell Baptist Preschool in Slough have named their new pet stick insects Harry and Stanley.

Teachers fight to stay in nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The General Teaching Council (GTC) in Scotland has launched a last-ditch protest against the Scottish Executive's decision to phase out a legal requirement for local authorities to have a qualified teacher in nursery schools and classes. In some cases local authorities had extended the requirement to partner providers in the private and voluntary sectors as a condition which had to be fulfilled if the provision was to be eligible for public nursery education funding. However, this was not consistent across Scotland.

Inspiring creativity in the classroom

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Inspiring creativity in the classroom is the aim of a new website that gives examples of success stories from projects in nurseries and school across Scotland. The site has been developed from Creativity in Education, published by Learning and Teaching in Scotland and the IDES Network in 2001. Case studies can be used as a starting point to identify characteristics conducive to learning for creativity. The site also includes a discussion forum for teachers and practitioners to share their ideas , links to other websites and tips on how to nurture and teach creativity. See www.ngflscotland. gov.uk/creativity/index.asp.

Mathematics in the EYFS: Space - Up and down

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Where is it? Develop children's mathematical thinking by giving them plenty of opportunities to talk about positioning with resources and activities around the setting, suggested by Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner.

Study finds little lasting impact from free hours

    News
  • Wednesday, May 25, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The £2bn a year free early years entitlement scheme has done little to boost education outcomes – because most children taking up the provision were already receiving childcare, a study has found.

Letters: Toxic medicines

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
As your recent articles noted (News, 13 and 27 September), research at Southampton University has shown a clear link between artificial colourings and behavioural problems in children.

Editor’s view - Keep it in mind

    Opinion
  • Monday, May 30, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Emotions have been running high for children, parents and teachers in the past few weeks of SATs, with tales of impossible questions, leaked papers, and playground tears.

Time for training

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
I was perturbed to read in the feature 'Put in the shade' (10 April) that it 'takes four years to train a teacher, while childcare staff can train on the job'. This is incorrect. Although there are some four-year teaching qualifications, a graduate of almost any field can obtain a PGCE in one year. While it is true that childcare staff may obtain an NVQ while working in a setting, other childcare courses are full-time college courses with workplace experience, in the same way that PGCE students undertake teaching practice.

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