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We've got our act together

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
By Anna Taylor, manager of First Steps Nursery in Salisbury, Wiltshire Our 50-place private day nursery in the centre of Salisbury has an excellent reputation and our feeder reception teachers frequently comment on how well our children do as they hit school.

In the round

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  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Circle time provides a great opportunity to show children how to behave towards others. Jennie Lindon offers ideas for how to make the most of this part of the day Circle time is probably familiar to many people as a phrase. But it takes some thought and sensitive planning to use it in ways that support children's learning, especially as a strategy to support and promote positive behaviour. Circle time can be used effectively for the broad range of what young children are learning. This article focuses on its application to behaviour.

A postcard from Venice...

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Jackie Cooke became the first employee to benefit from Child & Co's ten-year service award when she and husband Les spent four nights in Venice. 'It was a wonderful trip, relaxing and fascinating,' she said. They were due to spend a weekend in New York, and were planning to book their tickets at a travel agent's on September 11. But after the terrorist attacks, they decided to opt for Venice in October. 'It was such a different experience, basically you hardly see any cars. We stayed in a very posh hotel, went in a gondola and loved to stand on the bridges watching the postmen and dustmen work from their boats.'

To the point...

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  • Wednesday, November 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says childcare is a female-friendly electoral issue for all political parties After the entertaining hustings on 'Woman's Hour', we now know that of the Tory leadership hopefuls, neither David Cameron nor David Davies connect with popular culture and watch 'Strictly Come Dancing' or 'The X Factor' - they probably think the one is dancing with a dominatrix, and the other a documentary about chromosomes.

Ways & means

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Early years workers give case studies of children they observed using schemas and list how they shared their understanding in the setting and with parents at home Understanding schemas can help practitioners in the Foundation Stage in the way they observe children at play, support children's learning, plan future learning and work with parents, who invariably find schemas fascinating.

Further reading

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Introductory reading * Bruce, T and Meggitt, C, Childcare and Education (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998)

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