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Teach facts of life

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Could I have free education? I have worked since leaving school, despite having two children and am now having to pay hundreds of pounds to gain higher education qualifications. Giving teenage mothers free childcare (News, 1 March) will just encourage them to have babies. Why should they worry about having children so young, if the Government is still going to fund their education?

Growth in nursery sector more than halved in a year

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Growth in the UK nursery market slowed to 8 per cent last year - less than half the 2004 figure - with fewer new nurseries and smaller fee rises as operators tried to raise flagging occupancy levels, according to a new report. The Laing and Buisson nursery market report said it was now worth 3.4 billion, slowing from 17 per cent growth in 2004 and 12 per cent in 2003, 'as the market started to adjust to several years of capacity outpacing demand'.

Directors aim for peak performance

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Three directors at the Busy Bees nursery chain have Ben Nevis in their sights as part of a massive charity fundraising event involving all 50 Busy Bees nurseries. Operations director Margaret Randles, managing director Lynn Woodward and finance director Simon Irons are currently in training for their hike up the UK's highest mountain on 14 May.

Inclusion - With purpose

    Features
  • Monday, July 23, 2018
    • | Nursery World
At London setting Tuffkid – from the Hebrew word meaning ‘purpose’ – children with SEND flourish alongside their mainstream peers, explains Annette Rawstrone

Nurseries fill vacancies at short notice

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
More than 250 nurseries have signed up to an online emergency childcare service which helps boost occupancy levels by allowing parents to take up unused places on an ad hoc basis. Emergencychildcare.co.uk, set up by recruitment company Tinies, is now available across the country following a successful pilot in south London, and several nursery chains, including Asquith Court, Teddies, the Childcare Corporation and Happy Child have signed up to the scheme.

Adult learning resources going online

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities are being urged to embed the core elements of a flagship training programme into their early years and childcare planning strategies. Step into Learning is a national project that gives staff and managers skills and resources to identify parents or carers who have literacy, numeracy or language needs and direct them to local courses.

Taking flight

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Birds became the focus of an outdoor project for nursery children who reminded practitioners that the process of learning matters most, says Gill Wright, advisory teacher for early years at Sefton council The Enchanted Garden is a project based in Crossens Nursery School in Southport in Sefton, Merseyside. Inspired by the early years centres in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the vision of the project was to enhance the outdoor area, with an emphasis on starting from young children's ideas and interests. The aim was to focus on the process of learning, not the final product.

Celebrating diversity

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Involving parents from minority communities Parents who are themselves from minority communities can provide a valuable resource for teaching children about cultural diversity. In order for such help to be successful, certain things must happen.

Study days

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Since enrolling as a student of the new NVQ in Children's Care Learning and Development, Carmen Robinson has completed her first unit on health and safety in the environment. Here she describes the experience of her first assessment and how she is learning to develop her portfolio and create a chart that represents children's development from 0-16. On 1 February I had my very first assessment on maintaining a healthy, safe and secure environment for children. The main observations were on a safe environment for the children in my nursery class, using correct procedures that are required by law. This involved looking at the indoor and outdoor environment that I am responsible for, and checking for hazards that could potentially cause children harm.

My life at work

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Name: Jayne Ford Job title: Children's centre teacher

Janet's story

    News
  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
In the fourth and final of our series of articles about meningitis, Jane Edmonds speaks to a nursery owner to see how she coped when meningitis struck her nursery twice in one day Janet Lomax runs a pre-school nursery near Bolton in Yorkshire. She knows all about meningitis because 13 years ago her son Nicki contracted the disease when he was two years old. Thankfully, he survived the ordeal and made a complete recovery. Then, five years ago, the unbelievable happened.

Childminder needed

    News
  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Television Junction is a Birmingham-based production company specialising in educational videos and programmes. We are currently looking for an Afro-Caribbean childminder from an accredited network in the Midlands to participate in a video with carers from a range of ethnic backgrounds. If you are interested or would like further information please get in touch.

Vaccine for teachers

    News
  • Tuesday, August 11, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The National Union of Teachers has called for classroom staff to be some of the first in line for the swine flu vaccine.

Project outline

    News
  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum

Nurse visits improve asthma care

    News
  • Tuesday, August 11, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Nurses who make home visits to asthmatic children can help prevent more than half of them from having to receive more serious treatment for their condition, a study has found.

A manager's view

    News
  • Wednesday, September 22, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A well thought-out settling-in period is vital for both children and parents new to your nursery, says Mairi Maciver Clark For any parent sending their child to a nursery, the way the setting handles the initial contact and settling-in period is crucial. It serves as a solid introduction to our care and education of children, which will grow and deepen into a long-lasting, appreciative relationship with the parents, where we work together for the sake of the child. Although a child may find separation from their parents difficult, sometimes it can seem to nursery owners and managers that the settling-in period is more for the adults than for their offspring.

Baby time

    News
  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - South Korean student Yeono Hur reads to one-year-old Theo Dean at Upperthorpe Library's 'Baby Time' session in Sheffield. Yeono and two other students, Hyeyoung Kim and Jihyeon Kang, won a Seoul University competition with their project on Sheffield Bookstart. The university funded their visit to Britain so they could complete a report on the work of Sheffield libraries. Their trip included visits to several local libraries where they joined in singalongs, read with children and found out more about Bookstart and early years work. Photo Roger Moody/Guzelian

Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters

    News
  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Childcare staff score lower on awareness of Every Child Matters than local government workers, at 69 per cent and 90 per cent respectively, according to a survey published by the DfES last week. Children's Workforce Research found that childcare workers had the least awareness of Every Child Matters among professionals working across 26 job types in health, schools, youth justice, residential care and childcare. A total of 600 childcare practitioners working in private, maintained and voluntary sector settings and childminding were involved in the survey. Download the report at www.dfes.gov.uk.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
As the days get longer and brighter, and spring is in the air, you could well start to notice that your setting is in need of sprucing up. Perhaps your paintwork is peeling, your carpet is wearing thin, and your equipment is looking old or damaged. Nursery World will come to the rescue of one lucky nursery or pre-school, with our brilliant competition to win a complete makeover including equipment worth over 5,000. Turn to page 7 to find out how you can enter by collecting six tokens from 15 March to 19 April. The prize will include resources for the book corner, baby room, sand and water corner, and role play corner from Galt Educational, a bumper pack of Lego, plus a new carpet from Abingdon, and a fresh coat of paint for your walls.

Private providers fear sidelining

    News
  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Private providers remain apprehensive about their future role in Government initiatives despite ministerial reassurances that they will have a part to play. Speaking at a conference last week about the future of the private sector, minister for children Margaret Hodge spelled out the opportunities that children's centres and extended schools could offer private providers. But delegates, particularly those involved in the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative, expressed fears that they will be sidelined or ignored.

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