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Lecturer heads up SINA training

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The recently re-launched Scottish Independent Nurseries Association has appointed early years lecturer and Nursery World contributor Alice Sharp to deliver work-based training from its new base in Glasgow. One of Ms Sharp's first tasks will be to steer the organisation through the process of being accredited by the Scottish Qualifications Authority to deliver SVQ training in early years care and education. The training will be co-ordinated from SINA's headquarters and will be open to practitioners in local authority nurseries and the voluntary sector as well as staff from independent nurseries.

In brief...The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill, which created the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care which is to take over responsibility for all daycare services from local authorities, received Royal Assent last week and officially became an Act. The new law also creates the Scottish Social Services Council, which will regulate the care workforce in Scotland, including nursery nurses, childminders and other childcarers. Welcoming the Act's Royal Assent, deputy health and community care minister Malcolm Chisholm said that it would ensure Scotland's children received care delivered to nationally-agreed standards.

My Best course - Rating the environment

    Features
  • Monday, October 20, 2014
    • | Nursery World
A course using the US-devised Environment Rating Scales for quality prompted Priya Dhanda, deputy manager of LEYF's Noah's Ark in Tower Hamlets, to reorganise her setting.

In brief...RAF nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An RAF nursery is holding an open day and summer fair on 21 July to celebrate the opening of its new extension. Teresa Hake, manager of RAF Coningsby Nursery Centre in Tattershall, Lincolnshire, said, 'We are a self-funding charity, and although the nursery is on Crown immunity land, it is outside the RAF station grounds. The RAF gave us the building and built the extension for us. The nursery caters not only for the children of RAF families but also for local children.' For details ring 01526 344 325.

Your questions answered

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
What courses do I need? 'I have an NVQ level 2 in Childcare and Education, and am working as a nursery assistant in a private nursery. I am interested in becoming a classroom assistant in a primary school, but don't know how to proceed. Are there courses I should attend?'

New rung on career ladder for assistants

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A work-based qualification for teaching assistants is under development and will be available by next year. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has designed a series of national occupational standards for teaching assistants working with children aged five to 14, which are currently being finalised and will be posted on the QCA's website this autumn. Schools can then begin to use them for internal performance appraisal and for drawing up job descriptions.

Good practice tips

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Celebrate the individuality of young children's achievements with the following ideas: * It has long been the tradition for a child to have his or her own peg at nursery. Offer children a special place of their own as well. It may be a shelf area or a box to hide 'treasure', gather interesting items or keep home toys in. This is an ideal way to allow children to develop their imagination and feel important. I have watched two-year-olds share items from inside their boxes with friends and three-year-olds 'trade' from their boxes.

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