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Round the corner

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Sight and sound are the names of the game for children exploring their environment in more activities from Jean Evans and Dianne Irving Activity 1

Blue skies ahead

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Are you ready to offer your staff a pension? Mary Evans looks to the future near and far as the new stakeholder pension scheme comes in Next month sees a revolution in the way thousands of childcare workers will be able to plan and save for their retirement, with the launch of the Government's stakeholder pensions scheme.

In Residence

    Other
  • Monday, June 25, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Nursery school children from Bickley Park School in Bromley make weekly trips to a local nursing home to help develop their communication and social skills and confidence.

Teach facts of life

    News
  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Could I have free education? I have worked since leaving school, despite having two children and am now having to pay hundreds of pounds to gain higher education qualifications. Giving teenage mothers free childcare (News, 1 March) will just encourage them to have babies. Why should they worry about having children so young, if the Government is still going to fund their education?

Growth in nursery sector more than halved in a year

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Growth in the UK nursery market slowed to 8 per cent last year - less than half the 2004 figure - with fewer new nurseries and smaller fee rises as operators tried to raise flagging occupancy levels, according to a new report. The Laing and Buisson nursery market report said it was now worth 3.4 billion, slowing from 17 per cent growth in 2004 and 12 per cent in 2003, 'as the market started to adjust to several years of capacity outpacing demand'.

Directors aim for peak performance

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Three directors at the Busy Bees nursery chain have Ben Nevis in their sights as part of a massive charity fundraising event involving all 50 Busy Bees nurseries. Operations director Margaret Randles, managing director Lynn Woodward and finance director Simon Irons are currently in training for their hike up the UK's highest mountain on 14 May.

Inclusion - With purpose

    Features
  • Monday, July 23, 2018
    • | Nursery World
At London setting Tuffkid – from the Hebrew word meaning ‘purpose’ – children with SEND flourish alongside their mainstream peers, explains Annette Rawstrone

Nurseries fill vacancies at short notice

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
More than 250 nurseries have signed up to an online emergency childcare service which helps boost occupancy levels by allowing parents to take up unused places on an ad hoc basis. Emergencychildcare.co.uk, set up by recruitment company Tinies, is now available across the country following a successful pilot in south London, and several nursery chains, including Asquith Court, Teddies, the Childcare Corporation and Happy Child have signed up to the scheme.

Adult learning resources going online

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities are being urged to embed the core elements of a flagship training programme into their early years and childcare planning strategies. Step into Learning is a national project that gives staff and managers skills and resources to identify parents or carers who have literacy, numeracy or language needs and direct them to local courses.

Taking flight

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Birds became the focus of an outdoor project for nursery children who reminded practitioners that the process of learning matters most, says Gill Wright, advisory teacher for early years at Sefton council The Enchanted Garden is a project based in Crossens Nursery School in Southport in Sefton, Merseyside. Inspired by the early years centres in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the vision of the project was to enhance the outdoor area, with an emphasis on starting from young children's ideas and interests. The aim was to focus on the process of learning, not the final product.

Celebrating diversity

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Involving parents from minority communities Parents who are themselves from minority communities can provide a valuable resource for teaching children about cultural diversity. In order for such help to be successful, certain things must happen.

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