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What's the measure of imagination?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 23, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Sue Allingham's letter ('Government tightening the screw', 10 October) makes depressing and familiar reading. The extension of the formal curriculum into early years settings is continuing apace, to the great detriment of our children. What exactly is the point in children as young as three or four learning even the rudiments of mathematics and English? Barring misfortune, my son, born in 1999, is likely to live in three separate centuries. He is likely to be in full-time education for longer than I was and in work for longer than I will be.

Music corner

    News
  • Wednesday, July 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Music One2One: Music with under two-year-olds The one-to-one project is developing effective ways of working in music with parents and their young children. In the next six Music Corners I will outline activities developed in the project. This week the emphasis is on listening, using carefully selected everyday items - remember one saucepan may have a pleasing sound, another a dull thud - and presenting items in a way that focuses children's listening attention. Crinkling foil

New inspection arrangements for schools

    News
  • Wednesday, July 6, 2005
    • | Nursery World
New inspection arrangements for schools, local authority children's services and initial teacher training have been published by Ofsted. The three new frameworks, which follow extensive consultation and pilot inspections, set out how schools, children's services and initial teacher training (ITT) providers will be inspected from September 2005. Further details can be seen on www.ofsted.gov.uk.

Running out of time

    News
  • Wednesday, July 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I read with interest Nursery World's article on the NVQ assessor shortage (News, 2 June). At the time of reading I considered myself, an NVQ assessor, and my co-assessor fortunate to have a college that understood the time that is needed to develop a candidate and help them achieve the NVQ. This meant that we were able to be confident that our candidates would be good practitioners when they went to work in early years settings in our county.

Story corner

    News
  • Wednesday, September 14, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A mouse, a kangaroo and a whole Noah's ark of unusual animals star in new titles reviewed by Alison Boyle Second Best

In the know

    News
  • Wednesday, March 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Just as children must learn how to learn, so do students of childcare, and it starts with thinking about how you are going to tackle a course Congratulations. You have decided on your career and you are going to work with children, a worthy choice. But I imagine by now that the full force of your decision has hit home. It's not the easy option it first seemed, is it? 'Working with children - how difficult could it be?' How many times have you heard someone say that?

The Archbishop Cranmer Church of England Primary School in Aslockton

    News
  • Wednesday, February 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Archbishop Cranmer Church of England Primary School in Aslockton has opened a purpose-built pre-school unit with 100,000 of funding from Nottinghamshire Local Education Authority. The money has enabled the local voluntary sector pre-school, which had previously used a room in the school, to find a permanent home within the school premises.

Children’s Services Update - Be curious

    Features
  • Monday, September 18, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The death of ‘Polly’ from Derbyshire, a 21-month-old, resulting from her being ‘stamped on’ by her mother, leaves a horrible feeling of ‘here we go again’, says John Simmonds

In order

    News
  • Wednesday, October 23, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nanny Sarah Scotcher continues her A to Z of tips for tackling the everyday challenges of childcare M Mealtimes can be a battlefield in any household. Try giving children foods in small portions and one at a time. Arrange the food in exciting patterns to make it inviting and fun to eat, such as funny faces or a pasta 'house', with different types of pasta coloured with food dye. Getting children to finish the meal is the next step. You could introduce a Food Fairy who comes to call when she sees food left on the plates. She could fly in through the kitchen window when the nanny is not looking and take the food from their forks - children will quickly eat the food and blame it on the Fairy, giggling with glee as you set up each forkful, saying you hope the Food Fairy doesn't fly in through the door while you are keeping watch on the window.

Within budget

    News
  • Wednesday, March 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
How can a nursery provide quality food with limited funds? Mary Whiting has discovered some delicious, workable ideas It is a disgrace that British governments, unlike their European counterparts, have steadfastly refused to fund decent food for the nation's school and pre-school children. As a result, trying to provide good food on a tight budget can be a struggle.

Culturebaby: taking art to the under-twos

    News
  • Monday, September 5, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Culturebaby is a new programme rolling out in Manchester which aims to help practitioners and families find new ways to engage very young children with art and culture.

A minister for children in Northern Ireland

    News
  • Wednesday, June 29, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A minister for children in Northern Ireland was due to be appointed this week, the Office of the First Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister confirmed. As Nursery World went to press the likely nominee was expected to be Lord Rooker, the Minister of State for Northern Ireland. Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced his intention to create the new post last week.

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