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Speech, language & communication

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A guide to the early stages of communication by I CAN speech therapist and consultant Kate Freeman Babies are hardwired to communicate right from birth, but all children need help to learn to talk. Communication doesn't just develop on its own, although it can sometimes seem that way. Part one of this series describes what we mean by communication - how children move from being able to copy tongue movements at birth to talking about the birthday party they went to yesterday.

Decision time

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Childcare workers will know exactly what they're letting themselves in for on a new course. Karen Faux reports What is expected of childcare workers and what are the underpinning values and principles of working with children? What skills and qualities are required?

Voluntary sector progresses most

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The voluntary sector has improved more than any other type of provision, according to the first large-scale study of childcare across England since the Effective Provision of Pre-School Education (EPPE) in the late 1990s. The Quality of Childcare Settings in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), which compared EPPE data, found that while quality had gone up in all sectors, particularly with the 'learning aspects of provision', the voluntary sector made the largest gains.

The great outdoors

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
With warmer days ahead, children can spend even more time outdoors working on a large scale and exploring their creative ideas. The following suggestions focus on two-dimensional mark-making with paint. Abstract murals

Reader offer

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust sells its own simple-to-use Personal Shriek Alarm which gives off an ear-piercing, 138 decibel shriek. It comes complete with a Guide to Safer Living and costs 7.50 plus p&p. The Trust has kindly offered alarms at a special discount price of 6.50 plus 1.50 p&p to our readers. Ring the Suzy Lamplugh Trust on 020 8876 0305 and quote Professional Nanny (cheques should be made to SLT Training and Resources Ltd).

Expletives deleted

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The importance of overcoming negative role models with positive alternatives is explained by Jenny Mosley and Ross Grogan Q I am shocked by the foul language, including sexually explicit words, used by a three-year-old boy in my care when he is upset. How should I react to this?

On course

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007
    • | Nursery World
10 May I CAN conference

wraparound care: Before and after

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  • Tuesday, April 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Ensuring quality of care for children who spend their day with more than one provider is a juggling act in itself. Anne Wiltsher reports on a pilot scheme

Media watch

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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver said he is 'bored with being polite' about parents who fill their children's lunchboxes with junk food. The Daily Mail quoted Jamie's scathing remarks made at the launch of his new TV programme 'Jamie's Return to School Dinners'. 'I have seen kids of the ages of four or five open their lunch box and inside is a cold, half-eaten McDonald's, multiple packets of crisps and a can of Red Bull,' he said. 'You laugh and then you want to cry.' The Daily Mail also reported on a leaked Downing Street memo about the possibility of Prime Minister Tony Blair appearing on 'Blue Peter' once he leaves office. The paper said that the memo from one of Mr Blair's loyal staff suggested that a spot on the children's show might improve his public image.

Plans for eliminating discrimination, fostering good race relations and promoting equality of opportunity

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  • Wednesday, September 13, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Plans for eliminating discrimination, fostering good race relations and promoting equality of opportunity in the schools, nurseries and other institutions that Ofsted inspects or regulates have been published by Ofsted in a revised 'Raceequality scheme'. Jean Humphrys, Ofsted's Dignity at Work Champion, said, 'Ofsted is keen to develop and maintain good race relations, as an employer and also as regulator and an inspectorate of education and care providers.' Overall, 9 per cent of staff at Ofsted come from minority ethnic groups and the inspectorate is developing an action plan to increase the number of black and minority ethnic staff in senior roles. For information visit www.ofsted.gov.uk.

University-accredited Montessori course

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The first university-accredited Montessori course in the UK is the Kent and Sussex Montessori Centre's Early Childhood Teaching Diploma, recognised at NVQ level 4 by the Open University as the equivalent to one-third of a degree. Information is available at www.montessoricentre.com.

Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Four-year-old Lori-Ann Moran keeps a look-out for lawbreakers at Birch Services police post off the M62 near Manchester. PC Mike Monks treated Lori-Ann, who wants to be a policewoman when she grows up, to a spin in a high-powered car and a day in the life of a traffic officer as part of an event promoting police work as a career for women. Photo Guzelian

Cash incentive

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  • Wednesday, September 6, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Scotland is introducing a single qualifications and careers framework for staff, but is it too much too soon? Simon Vevers investigates The Scottish Executive courted controversy a few months ago when it suggested that local authorities did not need to have teachers in all nursery classes. The EIS teachers' union warned that it could mean the quality of provision being 'diluted', with the creation of a postcode lottery in the educational provision available for nursery-age children.

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