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Leadership - How to be first-rate

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  • Monday, July 11, 2011
  • | Nursery World
To improve a setting for 90 children, nursery leader Pip Otter carried out an audit, using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales (ECERS). This revealed strengths and weaknesses.

Nursery Chains: League tables - Buying time

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  • Wednesday, October 28, 2009
  • | Nursery World
The past year has seen consolidation in the sector with the major chains growing through acquisitions and the number of places rising, despite the ongoing economic recession. Catherine Gaunt reports.

Take twos...giving children confidence

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  • Friday, June 8, 2012
  • | Nursery World
James Hempsall outlines how one nursery has seized the opportunity to develop its key worker system in order to deliver an outstanding offer to its large number of twos.

Management round table: should parents have the say on sleep?

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  • Wednesday, November 14, 2012
  • | Nursery World
Manager's dilemma: Our parents have very firm ideas about the amount of sleep they want their children to have at nursery, often because they do not want to be kept up all night by wakeful children who have slept during the day. We've heard of nurseries which have been downgraded by Ofsted for not putting the child's needs before the wishes of the parents, and we are finding it very difficult to strike a balance.

To the Point - Today's nursery rhymes

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  • Tuesday, January 4, 2011
  • | Nursery World
Last time I wrote that I cannot sing for toffee, I was politely rebuked by one or two people who quite rightly say that everyone should feel confident about taking part in musical activities.

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