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In brief...Cash boost for schools

    News
  • Wednesday, August 15, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Every school environment stands to benefit immediately from a 10m cash boost announced today (Thursday) by minister for education Jack McConnell. The money is the first stage of a new long-term strategic approach to improving Scotland's school environments. Mr McConnell said, 'Children in Scotland deserve to learn in a positive environment to allow them to reach their full potential. By providing extra money for books, equipment and minor repairs for every school across the country, we are taking another step towards ensuring that happens. I want to see equipment and maintenance of school buildings improved year on year.'

Sophee Redhead's defence team speaks out about her acquittal

    News
  • Monday, February 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Following the recent not guilty verdict on the nursery worker charged with manslaughter and health and safety offences, two solicitors explore the legal minefield surrounding prosecution of individuals for health and safety related incidents, which can result in long prison sentences if convicted. They query whether there are artificially higher expectations for nursery owners and employees when a child dies or is injured.

Activities for song, rhyme and talk

    News
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Part of a parent's or carer's role is to make sure that activities are at the appropriate level for an individual child. Each baby or toddler will develop at their own rate, so be careful that they are not under-stimulated or over-challenged. Experimenting, exploring, creating and communicating through the activity is more important than expecting the children to achieve an end goal - for example, correctly ordering sequence pictures from a rhyme in Rhyme Time (see right). Song Box

Editor's view - Red tape removal

    Opinion
  • Monday, February 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
There's no doubt that the raft of reforms announced as part of the Government's response to the 'Regulation of Childcare' consultation are a sincere attempt to make childcare more affordable and accessible.

Picture perfect

    News
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Young children respond to art instinctively as a way to express themselves, and in experimenting with materials they discover how to give form to their ideas and feelings Painting and drawing are categorised under Creative Development within the Foundation Stage curriculum. The document Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage rightly states that creativity is fundamental to successful learning. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another and so extend understanding.

The Inspection Journey Part 6 - Today's the day

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | Nursery World
For a successful Ofsted inspection, the staff team need to consider their setting from the viewpoint of both a child attending it, and the inspector, says Laura Henry in the last of the series.

A home from Home Office at city nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Just Learning, the UK's third largest nursery chain, is fitting out a new 400,000 nursery next to the Home Office in Westminster. Home Office staff will be entitled to priority booking at the 70-place nursery and a 10 per cent reduction in fees. Remaining places will be offered to the general public.

Take flight

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Everybody got in on the act when a nursery school devised an imaginative project, described here by head Sue Chambers At Chertsey Nursery School, we decided to organise a special Design and Technology Fun Week as part of the whole-school project that we have each term. The aim of the week was to:

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government has been very keen to stress how important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of various polls of the public are used to justify maintaining physical punishment of children as a legal option. But those on the receiving end - children themselves - are rarely asked for their opinions. So it is great to see that Save the Children Scotland has surveyed children (see News, page 4) and found them overwhelmingly against smacking. The children's thoughtful and heartfelt comments reveal just how distressing and confusing they find being hit by their parents.

Show us men some respect

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Michael Nolan, a nursery nurse in a Birmingham hospital's neonatal unit. I'm fed up with hearing presumptions about why the childcare sector has problems when it comes to employing male nursery nurses.

Checking the fees

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Your news story, 'Don't pay for police checks, carers told' (19 July) was right to point out that daycare providers in England and Wales do not have to register with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) or pay for Disclosures. Ofsted will act as an umbrella body for the sector, and the Department for Education and Skills will meet Disclosure costs, at least initially. I am sorry that some daycare providers have been confused over this issue because of information we have sent them. This has happened because any organisation requesting information about using the CRB is entered in our database, and will automatically receive application forms inviting them to register to use the Disclosure service. The daycare providers that have received application forms recently will have at some time in the past contacted us independently for information.

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