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Goals for language

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Early learning goals The early learning goals require settings to:

Paying for checks

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Taking Ofsted out of the loop on Criminal Records Bureau checks was a sensible move. Rather less sensible is the recent announcement that the DfES subsidy which pays for CRB checks on daycare staff will not apply to repeat checking. Any person moving from one setting to another will have a new check paid for out of public funds. But settings that want to check their staff regularly - which is purely voluntary - will have to fork out 50 a time, plus VAT which they cannot recover.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with massive implications for teachers and teaching assistants (see News, page 4). The problems are not surprising if we look at what has already been happening where improved pay and career structures have been agreed for nursery nurses and classroom assistants. In some areas, an attractive-looking pay scale and grading structure has been rendered more-or-less meaningless because budgets dictate that no-one is being put on the higher grades and new posts are all being advertised at the bottom of the scale.

Green Fingers

    Other
  • Monday, March 6, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Amberley Hall Day Nursery in Bristol has recently started a garden club, where children have planted some vegetables and can maintain their own space.

Freedom is the vital ingredient

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
In my previous column I used the analogy of food to argue that a poor diet of activities in children's free time is just as bad for them as junk food. But what does a balanced diet of 'middle years' childhood experiences look like?

Liberton Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Maggie Adamson came face to face with a troll during a performance of the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' at Liberton Nursery in Edinburgh. Workshops and shows are taking place across Scotland as part of the twentieth Puppet Animation Festival, the UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children. For more information contact the Puppet Animation Festival at the MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling, on 01786 467155, or e-mail puppetanimation@stir.ac.uk. Photograph by Paul Reid

The twentieth Puppet Animation Festival

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The twentieth Puppet Animation Festival, the UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children, got off to a good start when Chameleon Puppets and Kidgloves Puppets visited Liberton Nursery in Edinburgh for a puppet show and a workshop. Ken Hardie of Kidgloves Puppets said that he likes children to interact with the puppets in a pantomime style and found the four- and five-year-olds at Liberton very enthusiastic. Using familiar stories, such as 'Little Red Riding Hood' and the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff', Mr Hardie weaves together a selection of stories of five to ten minutes each to make a show that invites audience participation.

'Support families, don't punish them'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new 'ethic of care' needs to be fostered in public policy to support family relationships and children's well-being, according to an independent commission set up to look at the relationship between the state and the family. The Commission on Families and the Well-being of Children was established last year by the National Family and Parenting Institute and NCH, with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Scarecrow Festival

    News
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Passers-by might have to look twice at a tableaux of nine young children climbing over a nursery wall at Gorseway nursery school in Hayling Island, Hampshire.

Caring and sharing

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
This Early Excellence Centre has a well-developed system for sharing its ideas, as Julian Grenier found Val Buckett, the head teacher of Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, is not proud. 'Early Excellence is not about people coming in to admire us,' she says. 'It is an attempt to break through professional isolation and the lack of support experienced by many workers in the early years.'

One voice must mean just one association

    News
  • Wednesday, May 30, 2007
    • | Nursery World
I cannot agree with Alan Bentley's column ('To the point' and News, 17 May) and find it very contradictory. He is asking us to speak with 'one voice', but surely setting up a separate association is splitting the voice into smaller groups who will not have such an impact with the Government? Mr Bentley says that another association should speak for all childcare providers, 'whether they have one nursery or 100'. Yet he says that at the large providers' group meeting they are going to decide about setting up another association - what about the opinion of small nurseries? NDNA has worked hard to get recognition from the Government and local authorities. NDNA has always stood for quality care, a point that seems to be forgotten in the politics around childcare. NDNA has also always responded to anything contradictory in the media. It may not be perfect in meeting everyone's expectations, but it is there to fight our corner and will always listen to members' views. If more people supported NDNA instead of pulling the association apart, we would have a stronger, united voice.

Summit will bring together pledges

    News
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The london child Poverty Summit in October will aim to bring together all those who have signed the London Child Poverty Pledge (news, 24 July).

Letter: Nought on your life

    News
  • Thursday, August 9, 2007
    • | Nursery World
It was interesting to read Lena Engel's succinct coverage of the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (21 June).

Welcome signs

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Sessions for carers and parents to drop in with children work wonders, as Julian Grenier finds A warm and very personal welcome awaits children, parents and carers when they come to the drop-in at Dorothy Gardner Nursery Centre. The Centre has been open for nearly 30 years in a bustling and densely populated corner of Westminster in central London. The staff are especially proud of the drop-in, says headteacher Pat Lacey. 'We welcome all people to the Centre, and the drop-in is usually the first point of call,' she says. 'We try to make people feel wanted, appreciated and valued. We've found that they often appreciate us in the same way.'

Staff and children from Manningtree Methodist Church Pre-school

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Staff and children from Manningtree Methodist Church Pre-school moved to new premises at Highfields Primary School in Lawford, Essex, at the start of September with the new name of Busy Bees Pre-School. It now offers morning, afternoon and lunch sessions for children aged from two-and-a-half. Each session has 20 places.

Two-year delay for Foundation Phase

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The early years sector in Wales will have to wait two more years for the start-up of its new Foundation Phase. Jane Davidson, minister for Education and Lifelong Learning, said last week that the implementation of the Foundation Phase for three- to seven-year-olds, which was due to be rolled out to three- to five-year-olds across Wales next September, is being put off to September 2008. Ms Davidson announced extra funding to support staff training and potentially bring more settings into the pilot, raising this year's budget of 1.5m to 2.5m in 2006/07 and Pounds 7.5m in 2007/08.

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