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Nurseries share a 'living partnership'

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  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Nicole Weinstein Children and staff at a York nursery are learning about the Japanese way of life, following a visit by the nursery manager to the Far Eastern country. Sue Maughan Brown from Acorn Nursery School in York, one of a chain of six Kaleidoscope nurseries in Yorkshire, visited Doshisha Kindergarten School in Kyoto, south of Tokyo.

A town's generation tracked by doctors

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  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The lives of more than 10,000 babies born in Bradford over the next three years will be tracked by medical researchers in one of the world's biggest longitudinal studies of child health. The Born in Bradford study will piece together a picture of each child's genes, diet, lifestyle, schooling, home neighbourhood and upbringing.

The Learning Tree

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  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Sarah and Steve Garside from Blackpool are opening their second nursery, located at Whitehill's Business Park in Flyde. The Learning Tree will provide nursery and after-school care for more than 100 children up to the age of eight, and offer dance and music classes and an early introduction to foreign languages. The couple already operate Mary Poppins Nursery in Cleveleys.

Stage Directions

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  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Use these guidelines to ensure that you are making the most of your early years drama sessions If you are now feeling confident enough to venture into providing drama, then take the following strategies into account when planning your sessions:

MMR review argues against single jabs

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  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A review of all the scientific research to date on the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine shows that there is no case for introducing the vaccines in single doses, according to the authors. Professor David Elliman, of St George's Hospital, London, and Dr Helen Bedford, of the Institute of Child Health, published their review in the British Medical Journal's specialist publication Archives of Disease in Childhood in September and concluded that worries over the controversial MMR are unjustified.

All washed out

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  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A common developmental hazard can be avoided by changing a child's diet, says Jackie Cosh British children have been found to be among the most iron-deficient in Europe. A ten-year study in Bradford noting children's iron levels at routine developmental checks found that up to one-third of babies aged seven months were anaemic. Another study found that more than half of inner-city pre-school children were anaemic, almost as high a rate as in some developing countries.

In brief...Every baby in Wales is to be

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  • Wednesday, November 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Every baby in Wales is to be given a book by their health visitor in their first few months of life, following the release of 400,000 in extra funding for the Bookstart project. Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, revealed the plan at Cardiff Central Library last week as she met parents and babies participating in the programme. The money comes from the National Basic Skills Strategy for Wales which is administered by the Basic Skills Agency, and whose director Alan Wells said, 'This is the kind of innovative project that can really make a difference to improving the basic skills of the people of Wales long-term.'

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