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The natural way to play

    News
  • Wednesday, August 16, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Paul Bonel, director of the SkillsActive Playwork Unit I welcome the review of children's natural play by Stuart Lester and Martin Maudsley for Playday 2006, commissioned by the Children's Play Council. It is apt at this time to examine the importance of playing naturally and the barriers to children doing so. As the review highlights very effectively, children have a natural inclination and ability to interact with the natural environment, and research shows that it is 'playing out' that children value the most.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The stereotypical picture of a day nursery crammed with babies who are placed there five days a week from 8am to 6pm is far from the truth, as the new survey from the National Day Nurseries Association shows (see News, page 4). Parents' working patterns and their use of daycare have been changing, and flexible, part-time take-up from toddler age is much more prevalent. So, nurseries have been responding to their customers' changing needs in the service they offer. However, current conditions are also threatening their livelihood, with large numbers of over-threes off to schools and children's centres, while care for the youngest children is more expensive to provide. Occupancy levels are also a continuing cause for concern, with many nurseries operating below levels needed to remain in profit and, ultimately, in business. Local authorities, now charged in the Childcare Act with supporting private and voluntary providers to be sustainable, will have their work cut out. Also in this week's issue, well-known author and social commentator Beatrix Campbell leaps to the defence of Sure Start (Special Report, pages 10-11), seeking the views of parents and professionals involved with the programmes to uncover the story behind the statistics.

The National Day Nurseries Association flagship in Grantham

    News
  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The National Day Nurseries Association flagship in Grantham has been re-inspected and judged 'satisfactory', following an unannounced Ofsted inspection last October which found it to be 'inadequate' (News, 26 January). The NDNA's 1.2m Trent Road nursery was served with a notice to improve by 16 May 2006.

Is your club meeting boys' needs?

    News
  • Wednesday, June 12, 2002
    • | Nursery World
* Ask the boys (and girls) for their ideas. Encourage them to participate in planning. * Find out what hobbies and interests the boys have and build activities around them.

Ramp up the red

    Other
  • Monday, February 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Sunflower Nursery in Cambridge took part in the British Heart Foundation's Ramp up the Red Day on 7 February.

Your Opinion: Online

    News
  • Wednesday, July 9, 2008
    • | Nursery World
We are a small committee-led playschool with huge problems of staffing and a non-supportive attitude from the committee. Several people have resigned. We have been told that without a chairperson the setting will have to close. We know the chair cannot resign without having a new chair to take over but they are resigning regardless (that is the attitude we are dealing with). We are wondering if we can take over the setting and run the whole thing ourselves. Can we do that and where do we start?

Roots and shoots

    Other
  • Monday, March 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children at Kingswood Daycare Nursery grew their own cress.

EYPS Support: Observation, reflection and evaluation

    News
  • Wednesday, July 9, 2008
    • | Nursery World
EYP student Martina Cooper focused on outdoor play to evidence Standard 10: Use close, informed observation and other strategies to monitor children's activity, development and progress systematically and carefully, and use this information to inform, plan and improve practice and provision; and Standard 38: Reflect on and evaluate the impact of practice, modifying approaches where necessary, and take responsibility for identifying and meeting their professional development needs. Marjorie Jack, an EYP and tutor with Edge Hill University, explains how.

Case Study

    News
  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Name: Lee Grant Age: 23

Apprenticeships honoured

    News
  • Wednesday, July 16, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Kingscliffe Day Nursery in Loughborough has been named Micro Employer of the Year at the National Apprenticeships awards.

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