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Diet risk to babies of teen mothers

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Many pregnant teenagers are putting their babies' health at risk because they cannot afford an adequate diet, a joint report by the Maternity Alliance and the Food Commission has claimed. The report, Good Enough to Eat?, published last week, found that two-thirds of pregnant teenagers living away from their family have a food budget of less than Pounds 20.25 per week - the estimated cost of a 'modest but adequate' diet - and that as money runs out they tend to eat less and fill up on cheap, unhealthy foods.

The New Community Schools

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The New Community Schools approach, which encourages the provision of integrated services focused on the needs of the child, is to be rolled out across 16 local authorities. Minister for education and children Cathy Jamieson said last week, 'I am delighted to confirm today the allocations of funding to 16 authorities to enable them to go ahead with this important work. We are still looking at the proposals we have received from the remaining authorities and we expect to come to our decisions on them within the next few weeks.' New Community Schools projects may involve a single school or clusters of schools, and often involve work across nursery, primary and secondary level.

Pack well before you slope off

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  • Wednesday, November 30, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Thermals Remember it is well below freezing out there, so take the right stuff to stay warm - hats, gloves, scarves, even the right socks. You might want to get some thermals - they may not be glamorous, but they are a lifesaver in the cold. Anyway, no one can see them!

Hop to it!

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  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
There are many ways for young children to learn respect and appreciation for animals without keeping live ones in their school or nursery, as Marie Charlton explains Rabbits will hopping into focus in many schools and early years settings in the north-west of England next month when RSPCA Education Week gets underway.

Part of the plan

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Once practitioners are confident that they have a proper understanding of a child's schemas, they need to plan how to promote that child's learning. Part of the planning process will be to set the child's individual learning needs within the context of the Foundation Stage curriculum. Below are two case studies showing how practitioners identified children's schemas, then planned suitable resources and activities to produce what is sometimes called a scheme of work, that spans the six areas of learning, reflects the child's current interests and is appropriate to their stage of development.

Ticket for fraud?

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Under the new tax credit system introduced last month, parents only need a care provider's registration number to claim towards their childcare costs. Once parents have this number they could continue to claim childcare costs when they are not in fact using it.

A call for 'robust and effective child protection procedures

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A call for 'robust and effective child protection procedures to safeguard children' in Wales has come from the Welsh Assembly's health and social services minister. Speaking at the launch of the All Wales Child Protection Procedures, Jane Hutt said recent reports into abuse scandals had underlined the importance of agencies working together. She added, 'The Assembly government will take a lead on child protection issues where this is necessary, but I am keen to promote collaborative working and to encourage innovative ideas across all sectors. These procedures set out common standards for all of Wales to guide work in child protection, to make it clear how agencies can and should work together and to make sure that practice is consistent and of high quality.' The procedures were produced by area child protection committees from across Wales.

Advice

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Scope expert Lindsay Brewis suggests practical tips for caring for a child with cerebral palsy in your setting: * Seeing and hearing difficulties can be experienced by children with cerebral palsy. It is important always to make eye contact and make sure the child understands what is being said. Showing, as well as telling, can help.

Inter-agency help for deaf infants

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A 1m pilot scheme bringing inter-agency services to-gether to help children under two who have disabilities, including deafness, and their families, in England is being set up by the Government. Under the Early Support pilot programme, which is to be piloted in ten to 15 sites across the country, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) will be working alongside the Department of Health, the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID), as well as service providers and other organisations, to offer help and practical assistance to young disabled children and their parents.

Spot a fun way to explain asthma

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  • Wednesday, June 5, 2002
    • | Nursery World
'Charlie Cheetah loves sport at school, but every time he runs around he feels out of breath. Mrs Cheetah brought him to see me.' So begins Charlie Has Asthma (Haldane Mason, 4.99), one of a series of three Dr Spot books, designed to reassure children about particular health problems. Dr Spot is a friendly leopard GP with an exemplary bedside manner. Besides Charlie, his other animal patients to date are Harriet the Hippopotamus with tonsillitis, and Mike the Monkey with chickenpox. The books, aimed at children from three to seven years old, have been written by ex-nanny Jenny Leigh, who wished to marry her more current experience of working in healthcare communications with 15 years of looking after various sick charges, step-children and nieces and nephews. 'When they were ill I couldn't find books like this in the shops,' she says. Her niece's experience of asthma inspired her to write about Charlie Cheetah, and it is backed by the National Asthma Campaign. Three more books are planned - one about a lion with nits in his mane.

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)

In appreciation

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  • Wednesday, November 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
In our series on preparing for Ofsted inspections, Laura Henry explains how to help children make a positive contribution The fourth of the five outcomes by which Ofsted will inspect early years settings is 'Helping children make a positive contribution to the provision and the wider community.' In order for children to make a significant contribution to the provision they need to feel that their opinions and thoughts are valued.

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