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The wee hours

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Enjoy two well-loved traditional rhymes relating to houses by dramatising them with simple movements, as Carolyn Price explains Bed time

Wheeled into action

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Powered mobility aids for disabled children under five: 'Essential', says one major charity; 'Unsafe', says the NHS. Patricia Slatcher looks at the arguments You wouldn't take a two-year-old's legs away just because she might run into the road or fall over and hurt herself, so why deny young disabled children mobility aids on the grounds that they might hurt themselves?

How to get on TV

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
All the best fairy tales end when a marriage begins, and pantomime curtains fall over blushing brides and rosy sunsets. But in the real world, how do you live happily ever after? We are a television production company making a documentary about marriage - the wedding, the honeymoon, the first baby, more children, and so on to retirement . If you are happily married, not-so-happily married or getting married someday soon and you would like to find out more, call me on 020 7349 3419.

Schools minister Jacqui Smith

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Schools minister Jacqui Smith (right) made bread with pupils at Ennersdale Primary School in the London borough of Lewisham and announced a 2.2m package to boost food education and awareness in schools. She said, 'We want to encourage primary schools to do more cooking so children get the healthy eating message.' Photo by Joel Chant

'Raise pay to raise status'

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The low rate of pay in childcare is the key to its current low status in society, according to a report by the Daycare Trust. All our futures: Putting childcare at the centre of every neighbourhood, published last week, said that if the Government was to make its national childcare strategy a reality, it needed to raise the status, training and qualifications of the childcare workforce, as well as recruiting more men and people from ethnic minorities.

In brief...An interactive conference

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An interactive conference in Midlothian on 19 May will focus on the emotional and therapeutic aspects of play. Workshops will include Scottish storytelling, drama and play, gym time and out-of-school care quality standards. The conference, to be opened by Rhona Brankin MSP, is for anyone working with children and young people. Entry costs 25 (15 for charities, voluntary organisations and students). For more information call Myra Henderson on 0131 271 3720.

Councils go for out-of-school package

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities across Britain are snapping up a pioneering Scottish-designed computer package which aims to take the pain out of managing an out-of-school club. Christine McGrory and Jacque-line Hughes, the directors of the Motherwell-based group of out-of-school clubs, kidsclubsdirect, launched their 'your club in a box' system in March this year. They have already received 100,000 worth of orders for the package, which includes both software and a PC and covers everything from how to start up a club to management and business planning. It provides guidance on meeting registration requirements and underpinning knowledge for the NVQ and SVQ in playwork.

Child benefit

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Discounts on their own childcare are a perk that can keep good nursery staff with an employer, says Mary Evans Recruitment and retention of high-calibre childcare staff is reaching such a crisis level that managers are searching for new ways to create competitive and attractive employment packages.

Gift of knowledge

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The donation of free computer equipment last year has had interesting implications for the early years settings that received it. Jenny Benjamin does a follow-up Christmas came early last year for 14 daycare centres across the UK. In November 2000, IT giant IBM gave them up-to-the-minute PCs complete with printers, early learning software, and Little Tikes computer workstations specially designed for young children.

Off the hook

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I am beginning to wonder if the children in our nursery are from another planet. I have just read your ideas for a story sack for Katie Morag's mail bag, on the project outline poster for 'My neighbourhood' (29 March). I am amazed at the suggestion to let three-and four-year-olds (I am reading NURSERY World) loose on a sack containing a large screw, fishing hooks and a packet of seeds.

Quotes of the week

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'What sort of country are we that pays the people who look after our children at this most delicate and important stage 7,000 a year? We must as a Government do something to raise the level of qualification and, essentially, pay' Barry Sheerman, chair of the Select Committee on Education

In brief...The role of Ofsted

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The role of Ofsted in the registration and inspection of childminders is the subject of a conference in London on 5 June, organised by the National Childminding Association. It will be addressed by Maggie Smith, director of Ofsted's early years inspectorate, and employment and equal opportunities minister Margaret Hodge. On 12 June, during National Childminding Week, the NCMA is holding a conference on diversity, with speakers professor of early childhood education Iram Siraj-Blatchford and cultural strategist and broadcaster Alex Pascall. For details, contact Jeannette Elliott at the NCMA on 020 8290 8976, fax 020 8290 6834 or Jeannette.Elliott@ncma.org.uk

Nature study

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Start a new project on pattern with these activities based on the natural world from Lena Engel By the end of the Foundation Stage, children should have learned in mathematics to 'talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns'. To achieve this, nursery settings need to initiate a wide variety of practical activities that introduce children to pattern-making.

In brief...The largest picnic

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The largest picnic in the north-east is the ambition of the Association of Quality Nurseries in Scotland (AQNS) to mark National Childcare Week (20-27 May) and highlight the early years work done in the area. AQNS convenor Jean Mackay said, 'We want to have an event where all the children in the local nurseries can be involved and aim to have a day full of fun.' For information contact Ms Mackay on 01224 733980.

Four-year-old Mungo Carswell gazes in awe at 'The Beacon'

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Four-year-old Mungo Carswell gazes in awe at 'The Beacon' by Allan Watson, one of 13 sculptures to form a trail in Tyrebagger Forest outside Aberdeen. The trail is now the subject of a pack produced to encourage schools to make use of the sculpture track as an educational resource and to promote visits and activities. Funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the Aberdeen Endowment Fund, the 'Sculpture At Tyrebagger' initiative is managed and curated on behalf of the Tyrebagger Trust by public art commissioning agency Art in Partnership. Photo Susanna Hastilow

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