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Meerkats on mock political debate

    News
  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Meerkats stood in for political party leaders on a mock TV debate set created by animal centre owner Steve Rowlands to help young children learn about the General Election.

Blow by blow

    News
  • Wednesday, December 19, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Share a funny story that will get children thinking about the weather and animals, says Karen Danks Mrs Mopple's Washing Line by Anita Hewett (Red Fox Books, 4.99) is a delightful story and good stimulus for exploring materials, farms and the weather with Foundation Stage children.

Opportunity knocks

    News
  • Wednesday, June 7, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Mary Evans looks at the roll-out of new money for early years training Early years training is receiving a significant injection of cash following the launch of the 250m Transformation Fund, aimed at increasing the number of graduates in the sector and improving the qualifications of other staff.

Playthings to delight children aged between two and three

    News
  • Wednesday, December 19, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Dressing up items to facilitate dramatic play -clothes are great, but accessories such as hats, shoes, domestic equipment or professional paraphernalia are even better. * A big (safe) mirror is essential for seeing how one looks in the aforementioned outfits.

Help at hand

    News
  • Wednesday, December 19, 2001
    • | Nursery World
James Tweed gives an essential guide to charities and organisations dealing with issues around children's health Allergies

Correction

    News
  • Tuesday, May 4, 2010
    • | Nursery World
'Contented Little Baby' author Gina Ford has asked us to clarify that she does not advocate controlled crying as a way of getting babies to sleep, as we reported in 'Leach Condemns Controlled Crying' (News, 29 April). Ms Ford recommends that parents allow 'crying down' for up to ten minutes for babies who are so over-tired that they cannot settle themselves to sleep.

Debating degrees

    News
  • Wednesday, March 3, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A graduate workforce is far from an illusion in many of the European countries that are our neighbours. Many, including Sweden and Denmark, already have a mainly graduate workforce. In these countries working with children is indeed seen to need 'skills, love and enthusiasm', but it is recognised that these qualities should be offered at a graduate level and that this will also entail paying such workers an appropriate salary. There is no contradiction between having a degree and having vocational skills. We have graduate nurses, teachers and lawyers. Vocational skills can be part of a degree course. In this country we already have people with Early Childhood Studies degrees and many more who are achieving the new foundation degrees in early years.

Sure Start starts before birth

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Up to 60m is being injected by the Government into the Sure Start programme to extend it to cover pregnant women and their partners, as well as families with children under four, public health minister Yvette Cooper said last week. At present Sure Start programmes offer support and advice to families with children aged under three in the most disadvantaged areas of the country. They can now apply for funds to provide services during pregnancy, with the aim of tackling problems such as poor nutrition, low infant birthweight, smoking and access to benefits.

Early years beacon awards

    News
  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Four local authorities have been designated beacons of best practice for their groundbreaking work within the early years and childcare sector. The councils - Leeds, Somerset, and the London boroughs of Camden and Newham - have been awarded Beacon Council status by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minster and the Improvement and Development Agency.

Avoidable injuries are biggest killer of the under-14s

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Preventable injuries are the biggest killer of children aged one to 14 in all industrialised countries, according to the first league tables to be compiled on the subject. The data is in the Unicef Innocenti report card document, A league table of child deaths by injury in rich nations, published last week. The report found that each year more than 20,000 children in the world's wealthiest nations die from injuries.

Into action

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Physical activity for children is high on the official agenda, as Joyce Reid reports, while our cut-out-photovopy guide will help you explain the reasons why to parents Many children today, it is widely recognised, do not get as mnuch physical excercise as they need.

Study days

    News
  • Wednesday, February 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Qualification PGCE (Primary education: multilingual nurseries and classrooms).

Childcare trainers progress with 'free school' plans

    News
  • Tuesday, September 14, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A leading childcare training company will go forward to the next stage of its bid to open one of the first 'free' schools in the country, following its approval by education secretary Michael Gove.

Support systems

    News
  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Working with children under the age of three can be a demanding job. Helen Moylett outlines ways to ensure much-needed support mechanisms are firmly in place Writing in Nursery World about working with children under three, Peter Elfer ends with an appeal: 'We now need to turn our attention at a national level to the demands on and the needs of childcarers working with babies and toddlers. The intense emotional demands of their work remains one of the most neglected areas in early years practice.' ('Close encounters', 30 January 2003.) Julia Manning-Morton takes up this need for practitioner support in Part One of Birth to Three (Nursery World, 22 January 2004), describing the work as 'demanding and complex' and stressing that to work successfully with this age group, practitioners need the support of well-trained and understanding managers.

Confidence through play: Big boost

    News
  • Tuesday, February 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
From the earliest days a child will grow in confidence and self-esteem by mastering new abilities through play, as Dr Richard Woolfson explains

Ban 'deliberate violence' now

    News
  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
By Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, deputy secretary general of the Council of Europe. (Taken from the sixth Kilbrandon lecture on justice for children.) The hesitation of the UK Government and some other states to grasp the nettle and legislate to respect children's fundamental rights appears to be based on their perception of and fear of public opinion. Banning corporal punishment is still a controversial issue in some states.

We need a happy ending to this story

    News
  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Both the 'In my view' by Rosemary Williams ('Tormented by a paper ogre', 12 February) and the letter 'Escaping the ogre' by Audrey Bowers (18 March) bemoaned the amount of paperwork being foisted upon nursery staff. I am the owner/manager of two nurseries. As such, I have become much less hands-on with the children and more of a juggler of time to allow my staff to complete all the necessary bureaucracy. This is as well as having two administrative support workers.

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