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Fit for a feast

    News
  • Wednesday, November 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Help children set the Christmas dinner table with decorations suggested by Hilary White Children love sitting down to a Christmas dinner table set with their own handmade place mats and napkin rings - and so will their friends and family.They can produce place settings for the whole table, or they can pick and choose - make just the place mats, just the napkin rings, or create a matching place mat and a napkin ring for a special (and highly honoured) guest!

Work matters: To the top

    Features
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The door to management positions and business ownership is being opened to women in childcare, as Mary Evans reports.

Children from the Lawns Early Excellence and Children's Centre in Biggleswade

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children from the Lawns Early Excellence and Children's Centre in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, had a visit from the owls of Shuttleworth falconry when the Centre hosted a Comenius European Schools Partnership project meeting. The week-long meeting was attended by 13 teachers from partner schools in Norway, Finland, Holland, Northern Ireland and Italy. The project is part of the European Union Socrates programme and helps children, parents and teachers become more effective European citizens.

Sights and sounds

    Other
  • Monday, January 12, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The teachers at Roseacre Playgroup in Shepperton made a den for the children, who used their new binoculars to explore the outdoors at the nursery.

Childcare charities 'tied up in red tape'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Red tape is costing charities and voluntary organisations millions of pounds to meet the demands of different regulators, according to the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. The council last week launched a campaign called Red Tape - Cut It Out! to highlight the problem.

Media watch

    News
  • Tuesday, August 12, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A three-year-old boy woke up in the middle of the night, unlocked the front door and went to buy chocolate at the local supermarket, reported The Daily Mail.

Child Safety Week

    News
  • Wednesday, April 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Child Safety Week, an annual initiative organised by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), is taking place between 23 and 29 June, on the theme of 'One moment changes everything'. The message of the week will be, 'Accidents happen in seconds but the effects can last a lifetime. Take action now for child safety.' CAPT said that Child Safety Week will aim to provide clear and accurate safety information, and to persuade local communities to take part in child safety activities. CAPT supports regional activities by offering planning days to put participants in touch with each other so they can share ideas. The Trust highlights the fact that accidents are the biggest killer of children and young people in the UK, causing thousands of serious injuries each year. It says they can be reduced by 'advocating change in legislation, improving product design, creating child-friendly environments and through better knowledge of how children's accidents are caused'. For more details about Child Safety Week, contact CAPT on 020 7608 3828 or by e-mail on csw@capt.org.uk. National Breastfeeding Awareness Week, which takes place between 11 and 17 May, will be encouraging the partners, family and friends of young mothers to impress on them the benefits of breastfeeding. The Department of Health said that one of the key messages of this year's awareness week will be that breastfeeding is the healthiest option for both mother and baby. It will also stress that mothers should not feel they are imposing on anyone and that they can breastfeed 'anytime, any place, anywhere'. The campaign, which again will focus on young mothers and mothers to be and lower income families, will also emphasise that breast milk provides complete nutrition for the first six months of life. For more information see www.doh.gov.uk/nbaw2003.

Teacher-mediated intervention after disaster

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Teacher-mediated intervention after disaster: a controlled three-year follow-up of children's functioning Children who had survived an earthquake in Turkey were evaluated three and a half years after the event, and three years after a sub-group had participated in a teacher-mediated intervention. The severity of post-traumatic grief and dissociative symptoms of the two groups was comparable. Teachers rated children who had been in the intervention significantly higher than the control group in terms of social behaviour, academic performance and conduct. Wolmer, L and others. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 46(11):1161-11681, November 2005. Abstract: www.blackwell-synergy.com

Effects of familial risk factors and place of birth on the risk of autism

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Effects of familial risk factors and place of birth on the risk of autism Nearly 1,000 Danish children under ten were studied from 1994 to 2001; of those, 818 developed autism. The highest risks of autism were found in siblings of children with autism, or Asperger's syndrome and other pervasive developmental disorders. The relative risk of autism in the child was about twice as high if the mother had been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. The research supported the involvement of genetic factors in the aetiology of autism. Lauritsen, M, Pedersen, C and Mortensen, P. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 46(9): 963-971, September 2005. Abstract: www.blackwell-synergy.com

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, June 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'As a contributor to the OECD report on early education and care I examined child poverty and quality of services to young children. The UK's record is shameful by comparison with countries like Belgium or Denmark. We aim to reduce our child poverty by half in ten years. Reducing it by half will still be double the rates in those countries now.' Dr Helen Penn of the University of East London, in a letter to The Guardian

Barbie princesses and dinosaur dragons

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Barbie princesses and dinosaur dragons: narration as a way of doing gender In a Swedish project eight pre-school children made their own books, using narratives acquired from traditional and popular culture. Girls and boys chose gender-specific themes for their stories, but also made reinterpretations of traditional stories and gender patterns. The girls let the female characters play the active roles and the boys let their heroes become friends with the enemies; the children used the stories creatively, reshaping them to fit their own purposes. nggard, E. Gender and Education 17(5): 539-553, December 2005. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

On course

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
22 November Quality in early years education and childcare: maintaining and improving standards

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