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Tinsel Town

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  • Thursday, January 2, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Children at Kidzrus Media City helped to decorate the tree at their setting in Salford in time for their festive celebrations.

Enabling Environments - Let loose!

    Features
  • Monday, January 6, 2020
    • | Nursery World
Sunbeams Day Nursery has embedded loose-parts play into provision across all its settings, transforming practice and inspiring children. Nicole Weinstein reports

Editor's View

    News
  • Wednesday, November 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
There's no doubt that falling occupancy levels and escalating competition from Government-funded children's centres have put a damper on expansion among the UK's largest private nursery groups (see League table, page 21). However, the private sector will be needed if the Ten-Year Childcare Strategy is to keep its promises, and the extended schools programme is one area of opportunity. In 'After hours' (pages 4-5), we look at how chains are providing out-of-school care at local authority schools.

Media watch

    News
  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Tony Blair admitted smacking his three older children last week, but said he had never hit his five-year-old son Leo. According to the Independent, the prime minister revealed his 'change in attitude to corporal punishment' at the same time as he launched the Government's Give Respect, Get Respect action plan to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Media watch

    News
  • Wednesday, January 28, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Women are more likely to coo over babies than men, say psychologists at the University of St Andrews, reported the Daily Mail. The study also found that young women are more sensitive to cute baby features, such as chubby cheeks and a button nose, than women who had gone through the menopause, and said the differences could be down to the hormones which a women's body makes during childbearing years.

Media watch

    News
  • Tuesday, March 3, 2009
    • | Nursery World
A 'flashmob' of tiny plasticine figures met outside London's Tate Modern gallery to honour the memory of late TV artist Tony Hart, reported the BBC. Almost 200 models in the shape of children's TV favourite Morph were arranged in formation, after a group of friends organised the event on social networking site Facebook.

Media Watch

    News
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The BBC has ordered a new Upsy Daisy doll with darker skin after complaints by parents that the doll of the character from 'In the Night Garden' was too white, reported the Daily Mail. A new version of the doll will be made that is closer to Upsy Daisy's on-screen hue.

Media Watch

    News
  • Tuesday, August 25, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Parents can now download a bedtime story for their children via their iPhone, said the Daily Telegraph.

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