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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.

Share schemes

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Staff work jointly with parents in assessing a child's learning at this early years centre, says Julian Grenier Lynn Kennington, the head of Gamesley Pre-School Centre in North Derbyshire, is forthright about her priorities. 'Parents are at the forefront of our thinking. They are the child's first educators,' she states. 'We are here as a resource for the community, for the child and the family.'

A positive future

    News
  • Wednesday, December 20, 2006
    • | Nursery World
New hopes are held out for children who suffer from this life-threatening condition. Melanie Defries explains what they need Cystic fibrosis came to prominent public attention recently when it was revealed by Chancellor Gordon Brown that his four-month-old son James Fraser had been diagnosed with the hereditary disease. He said that he and his wife Sarah were positive about their son's future and optimistic about new treatments, and they were touched by the many messages of support received.

More health visitors needed

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Up to 4,000 more full-time health visitors are needed across England to provide intensive support for 120,000 vulnerable families, says a leading trade union.

A base that reaches into the heart of the community

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The ACE Centre is the base for professionals from many different services who are working together. Their common agenda is to find out what people need and then provide it. It is a kind of working which is still exploratory, and is sometimes challenging. 'We are all committed and caring professionals at the centre,' says Clempson, 'but you never get to the point where you've "cracked it". This work isn't just about words on bits of paper. We have found that when people are working together for the first time, their own needs have to be met even as we are working to meet the needs of the people we serve.'

Animal welfare: Hop to it!

    News
  • Tuesday, May 28, 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

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