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The work of a successful child development programme in Scotland

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The work of a successful child development programme in Scotland looks set to continue thanks to a Pounds 70,000 cash injection. The Play@home activity scheme, originally set up in 1999 by Fife Council and Fife Primary Care NHS Trust, will receive 35,000 from both the council's Children's Services Committee and the NHS Fife Board. The three-step activity programme offers parents fun ways to interact with their children and stimulate co-ordination and activity from birth to nursery age. Fife's chair of children's services, councillor Helen Law said, 'Play@home is a wonderful example of what can be achieved when agencies combine their skills to provide joined-up services tailored to meeting the needs of children.'

Neighbourhood grants awarded

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The first New Opportunities Fund (NOF) grants towards neighbourhood nurseries were awarded last week. The Fund's Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme has awarded grants totalling 154,094 in Herefordshire, Newcastle and Bolton to renovate and construct new neighbourhood nurseries.

Opinion: Editor's view

    Opinion
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Why doesn't nursery food figure in plans for improving the quality of children's lives?

National Childcare Week

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Lauren Spence, aged four, gives her dad, Paul, a hug after winning the under-fives section of the National Childcare Week children's art competition for her picture of her male hero, singer Gareth Gates. Lauren, from First Class Nursery in Edinburgh, won a game and a Pounds 50 voucher, and her childcarer, Khatoon Shafi, won a 75 gift voucher. The entries in the competition, organised by Nursery World, the Daycare Trust and Bright Horizons Family Solutions, are on display until the end of June at London's IMAX cinema.

In a tangle

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
There's no avoiding regulations but there are ways that nurseries can ease their way through complying with them, as Mary Evans explains Business leaders gave a sceptical welcome to last month's Budget proposals to reduce the spider's web of red tape. While Chancellor Gordon Brown accepted the recommendations of two key reports on cutting regulations, the Government itself was accused of increasing the bureaucratic burdens on business by almost 39bn in the past eight years.

Scotland's first internet nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Scotland's first internet nursery has gained the Investors in People award for its commitment to staff training and development. Technotots Nursery in Dundee installed webcams last year to allow parents to watch their children 'live' online. It completed requirements for the national quality standard in only six months, ahead of the average length of assessment time of 18 months. Nursery manager Angela McGoldrick said, 'Investors in People is an excellent way of raising standards within individual organisations. Promoting and sharing of best practice in a comparable, open and honest communication forum across the industry could have a similar effect in raising standards, and thus the status of the industry.'

Star photo: Dizzy Ducks, Ongar

    Other
  • Friday, May 17, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Children from Dizzy Ducks Nursery, Ongar, went on a search to find the Gruffalo in Thorndon Park in Brentwood, Essex.

Healthy eating is on the menu at Teddies Nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Healthy eating is on the menu at Teddies Nurseries, BUPA's UK childcare business. It has joined forces with the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) to create the Healthy Nursery Menu Awards to recognise good food standards at Teddies' 36 nurseries, which care for about 2,000 children. Among the BNF's ten criteria for a good weekly menu for children are that dishes should vary so they are more likely to receive a range of nutrients; meals should include a good source of iron, for example, red meat; a source of vitamin C, such as orange juice, should be served with vegetarian meals to improve iron absorption; a calcium source such as fromage frais, yoghurt or cheese should be served daily for healthy bones and teeth; fresh fruit or a fruit-based dessert should be offered daily; and vegetables should be served every day. Ten Teddies Nurseries have won gold awards for satisfying at least eight of the standards, while others received silver and bronze awards. The chain said it plans to use the BNF recommendations to bring all its nurseries up to the gold standard.

Autism study findings

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
First-born children with older mothers and fathers have a greater risk of developing autism than later children of young parents, according to a new study. Funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the study, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, looked at the records of 240,000 children born in 1994, identifying 1,251 as having autism. Researchers said that the study provided evidence that maternal and paternal age are associated with autism. Mothers surveyed aged 35 or over had a 30 per cent increased risk of having an autistic child, while the fathers aged over 40 had a 40 per cent higher risk then fathers aged 25 to 29.

Opinion: In my view - Keep fathers involved

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • | Nursery World
When a link between high father-involvement and child IQ at age 11 was reported (Nursery World, 9 October), no-one at the UK's Fatherhood Institute was surprised. The Institute, which collates and publishes fatherhood research, has seen this link reported before.

Action points: managing staff personal problems

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
* Never ignore the problem and allow it to develop until it impacts on the other staff, children and parents. * If there are enough staff available, take the person outside for a chat. If not, say, "Take ten minutes out to settle yourself and we will talk later".'

Teach the parents

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I read Julian Grenier's article with interest. But I believe there are two flaws - he didn't mention the role that parents have to play in educating children on good eating habits, or how proper meals and meal times educate children to be healthy. Children need to be in an environment where there is routine. The home environment matters a lot to a child. How are we as teachers supposed to help children to learn if we do not get support from their parents or in their home life?

Shop 'til you drop

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Part of the early learning goal for Knowledge and Understanding of the World is to 'find out about and identify the uses of everyday technology'. A good way of doing this is to provide ICT opportunities in role play areas, for example a shop. Try some of the following ideas:

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The new report for Sure Start on children's transition from the Foundation Stage to Key Stage 1, carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research, will provide welcome ammunition for those in favour of extending play-based learning (News, page 8). If action were taken on the report's recommendations it would be good news for KS1 children, who can find the move to a more formal approach to learning difficult. Many are not ready to sit still listening to a teacher for long periods and need continued opportunities for active, independent learning. It would be wonderful, too, if teachers throughout primary schools received training on the Foundation Stage curriculum and how to integrate elements of it. All too often it seems no-one outside the Foundation Stage has much idea of what it involves!

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