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Made to measure

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries should be designed to meet the needs of the child, but this is often not the case, argues Jenny Benjamin For too long, says Eva Lloyd, chief executive of the National Early Years Network (NEYN), public architecture in the UK has been failing young children. In so many schools and nurseries, she says, 'The children have been made to fit in with the environment, instead of the environment being made to fit the children.' She points to windows too high for small children to see out of, cramped, dingy indoor spaces and poor provision for outdoor play.

Four-year-olds learn foreign languages

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
French, German and Spanish are among the foreign languages Liverpool four-year-olds will start to learn when a pilot scheme gets under way this September. Primary school children from four upwards will find their registers, PE classes and even lining up at the start of their school day taken in a foreign language, as part of the city council's Education and Lifelong Learning Service's three-year initiative.

Picture this

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A moment of carelessness in the playground taught nursery teacher Jenny Ellis something new about what young children will do when left to their own devices I have worked with young children for around 30 years, but they are still teaching me. In my state nursery in south-east London, Kingswood Nursery attached to Kingswood Primary School, I decided to use the sunny spring spells we had recently to take some evocative photographs in the playground.

Lagging behind

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I have worked as a registered nursery inspector and even then was surprised by the lack of hands-on childcare experience of many senior managers in Ofsted's Early Years Directorate (News, 10 and 17 May). Tam not surprised the team is made up of civil servants. After all, childcare is easy isn't it?

Price of progress

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nursery chains that run their own training schemes are facing funding cuts, new national qualification standards and a recruitment crisis. Mary Evans reports Leading nursery chains find the promise that staff can access the necessary training to enable them to work their way up from the baby room to the boardroom plays a critical role in helping them combat the recruitment crisis. But nowadays, many of the childcare sector's in-house training schemes are being squeezed by new funding arrangements.

The beat goes on

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
You're never too young for music, as one Cheshire nursery group has discovered. Mahrukh Choughtai reports Jingling bells, beating drums and clacking maracas are familiar sounds at Busy Nought to Fives Learning Centre in Brimstage, on the Wirral, on Saturday mornings. In October the nursery held its first music class for children aged six months to five years, and it was a huge success.

Editor's View

    News
  • Wednesday, June 6, 2001
    • | Nursery World
In this issue of Nursery Chains we're publishing our first ever league table of the 20 largest groups. Between them, these chains provide around 33,000 childcare places, representing a huge slice of the childcare market. According to the Daycare Trust, last year day nurseries in England provided 264,200 places, of which 17,200 were in local authority provision. Our league table, which includes places across the UK and Ireland, suggests that the 'top 20' chains offer nearly twice as many places as local authority nurseries, and provide about a tenth of all private nursery places. They are undoubtedly a force to be reckoned with.

Animal instincts

    News
  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Cruelty to animals is often a reflection of emotional pain, but pets can play a healing role when treating troubled children. Mary Evans reports

The kangaroo connection

    News
  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A teddy bear and a Kangaroo trade places in an exciting new exchange scheme, writes jenny Benjamin

Four-year-olds learn foreign languages

    News
  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
French, German and Spanish are among the foreign languages Liverpool four-year-olds will start to learn when a pilot scheme gets under way this September.

Picture this

    News
  • Tuesday, June 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A moment of carelessness in the playground taught nursery teacher Jenny Ellis something new about what young children will do when left to their own devices

Ofsted 'losing early years experience'

    News
  • Tuesday, June 5, 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.

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