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All about...Speech & Language

    Features
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By The Speech and Language Day Nursery Special Interest Group, South East Region with additional input by group members Jane Conway and Gila Falkus Speech marks

Ten key points

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Use these ten questions as starting points for discussion at a staff meeting or with parents and carers: 1 Do you have construction equipment made from natural materials, such as wood? Sensory exploration of textures, shapes and sizes is important.

In place

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Imaginative play helps develop symbolic understanding,a vital stepping stone on the path to mastering language Play helps young children to gain a greater understanding of the world around them and motivates them to interact with others. They can then map language on to this new understanding and interaction.

Better standards

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I am writing as an NNEB and first-year BA (lions) Early Childhood Studies student in response to Caroline Jones's letter 'Top dogs again' (Letters, 3 May). Believe me, until you embark on a graduate training course in the early years you will have no idea how much it will benefit now as a practitioner or how much it will benefit the children in your care.

The Royal Society of Arts is urging schools nationwide to get ready, steady and cook during Focus on Food week

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The Royal Society of Arts is urging schools nationwide to get ready, steady and cook during Focus on Food week, 25 to 29 June. The Focus on Food campaign aims to encourage children of all ages to develop a lifelong enjoyment of cooking. It is also backed by Waitrose and recipes and information about the 'Let's Bake It!' challenge, which will form the focus of the week, are available on the Internet at the supermarket's website, www.waitrose.com.

Hard to say

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
There are a variety of conditions and problems that can inhibit a young child's language development Because learning language is such a complex business, it is not surprising that problems sometimes occur. In addition to language delay, there are a number of other difficulties to look out for.

Respect please

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It's good that parents are expressing their feelings and awareness of the low rate of pay for childcarers (News, 24 May). I'm training to be a nursery nurse at the moment and will finish my course in November. I will always work with children as that's what I'm good at.

Ofsted 'losing early years experience'

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Ofsted has come under fire following concerns that there will be a huge loss of experience and expertise in the inspection of early years education with the advent of its Early Years Directorate in September, as it is increasingly taken over by former local authority staff with a social services background. The vast majority of nursery education inspectors are self-employed and work for contractors such as Nord Anglia, Wessex Associates and Kinderquest, who are shutting down their nursery inspection divisions this summer. The education inspectors will not be transferring to the Early Years Directorate when local authority inspection and registration officers become Ofsted employees under the new regime.

Ambitious plans for top 20 chains

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The 20 biggest nursery chains provide around a tenth of all nursery places in the UK, including local authority provision, according to a survey in the supplement Nursery Chains, published with Nursery World this week. The groups in Nursery Chains' first-ever league table provide more than 33,000 places across the UK between them, nearly twice as much as the number provided by local authority nurseries in England.

Promises to children in parties' responses

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Stringent monitoring and the establishment of a Children's Commissioner for Scotland are among the methods the Scottish National Party would use to put the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into practice if successful in the General Election. The party was responding to the charity Children in Scotland last week, which called on political parties to express their views on issues ranging from child poverty and inequality, to the provision of parental leave.

The bigger picture

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Which nursery chains have the most places? Alison Mercer investigates In this issue of Nursery Chains, we have for the first time in the directory listed the total number of registered places provided by each group. This gives us a picture of how the biggest groups in the country compare.

Scotland provides good care model

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years good practice in Scotland should be followed by the rest of Britain, according to a leading early years expert. Professor Tina Bruce, visiting professor at the University of North London, has praised the early years curriculum in Scotland for its emphasis on learning through play and recognition of the importance of child observation.

Angry staff poised for strike action

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nursery workers were due to hold a one-day strike this week in support of a fair pay and grading claim against Ealing Council in west London. As Nursery World went to press, the strike was expected to take place on Wednesday 6 June, with all four council nurseries closing - Disraeli, Hanbury, Hanwell and Windmill.

Case study: exploring structure

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Troy is a three-year-old boy at Woodlands Park Nursery Centre who loves being active - riding bikes, kicking footballs and running in the garden. He is using his body and movement to explore large areas of space. Troy's main interest in his block play has been to stack blocks up high and sometimes to knock them down and see them scatter all over the floor. Troy's key worker, Judy, has recently noticed a new preoccupation in his building. After building a tower with the blocks, Troy put a toy person on the top. Later, he saw a large structure another child had built. He then went into the garden and gathered a handful of small stones. He came in and placed the stones carefully between the raised bumps of the bricks.

In brief...'Tried hard, could have done better'

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Tried hard, could have done better' could have been on the Government's end of term report, according to David Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT). Speaking at the NAHT's annual conference last week, Mr Hart said that teachers had been promised pressure and support in 'equal measure', but pressure was paramount, with schools being named and shamed, and monthly initiatives churned out.

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