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Out of the wood

    News
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Creativity and confidence grew from a unique project when a nursery invited an artist in residence to work with children in its outdoor area. Annette Rawstrone reports Exploring and creating spaces, forms and structures using living willow was the focus of a seven- week artistic residency at Bloomsbury Children's Centre in Birmingham.

Free children's after-school clubs

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Free children's after-school clubs have been launched by Glasgow City Council's Community Action Team in the East End of the city this week. All children aged five to 12 are invited to the clubs which promise fun, games, sports and arts. The clubs are free with a Glasgow Kidz Card, application forms for which are available from schools or at the club. For further information, contact community action officer Angela Beattie on 0141 764 3802.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a study, What makes parenting programmes work in disadvantaged areas?, based on the trial of a programme in primary schools in London, at www.jrf.org.uk/redirect.asp?url=findings/socialpolicy/0386.

Campaign for play

    News
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Play England has launched a new resource to help communities facing cuts to children's play facilities start their own local campaign.

In my View - We still fail children

    Features
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Children are living messages to a time we will not see. They are our most precious resource, and their outcomes should be of concern to every adult.

Missing discs fiasco spurs fears over child database

    News
  • Wednesday, November 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Children's and family groups and opposition politicians have hit out at plans to introduce the ContactPoint database, containing details of every child in England, in the wake of the loss of the HMRC discs.

'Get views in now' on curriculum

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Early years experts are urging practitioners to respond to consultations on the Early Years Foundation Stage and teaching early reading to ensure that the principles of best practice are preserved under the proposed single framework. 'In not replying, we leave ourselves open to being given a curriculum which may not be appropriate for young children,' said early years and literacy specialist Helen Bromley.

Cash handout for literacy projects

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Three projects promoting children's literacy are to receive 560,000 from the Government. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said last week that the projects - Bookstart, a Booktrust project to encourage children's early exposure to books at home; My Home Library, a website run by the Children's Laureate, Anne Fine, to enthuse children about owning their own books; and the Children's Laureate scheme - will receive respectively, 500,000, 50,000 and 10,000.

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