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Plants get thirsty too

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This is an excellent science experiment that will show children how plants and flowers need water and how they consume it. Resources

Summit meeting

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It's hard not to be charmed by Tivola's latest title, Oscar the Balloonist Flies into the Mountains (Windows/ Mac, CD-Rom, Tivola, 19.99). The high graphic quality of this German-designed programme means attractive depictions of landscapes and animals. The background music is pleasant, the small boy presenter Oscar is engaging and the language-changing facility (you choose from English, German and French) is useful. Above all, the programme is packed with interesting information about unusual creatures such as the marmot and the chamois. However, its charms don't make the programme perfect. Several of the games accessed through Carmela, Oscar's animated toy chest, are too difficult for most children in the target age range of four to eight. In many of the games there is not enough leeway for mistakes, so children will feel easily defeated, and some are badly explained.

Why Ulster should say no to smacking

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Colin Reid, policy advisor with the NSPCC Northern Ireland Not long ago, who would have thought that we would all wear seatbelts when driving, probably wouldn't smoke and if driving, certainly wouldn't drink. These are some of the ways the Government has led public opinion and produced changes in society that we all accept as perfectly sensible and necessary.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An awareness of pattern is fundamental to a child's learning in the early years. The early learning goal relating to pattern - 'talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns'- falls within mathematical development, but pattern permeates the whole early years curriculum,as an understanding of pattern strengthens and develops children's knowledge in all six areas of learning. For example, recognising patterns in nature and the man-made world helps develop children's knowledge and understanding of the world; being aware of pattern in rhyme aids children's language and literacy skills; hearing patterns in music and design enhances children's creative development; regular patterns in everyday routines build security and confidence; patterns in games and dance add to children's physical development.

Scottish libraries to get toy money

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Toy and leisure libraries have received a 75,000 boost from the Scottish Executive to encourage children's learning through play. The additional funding, announced by deputy education minister Nicol Stephen last week, covers the next three years. Mr Stephen said, 'Through play children learn about their environment, how to relate to people and how to recognise and handle everyday objects. It is an essential part of early development. Play is fun and something that can be enjoyed by all the family.'

Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo visited the Buffer Bear at Bessborough Nursery in Pimlico, London, to show the children a guide to help working parents calculate how much help they could get towards the cost of childcare. The childcare tax credit 'ready reckoner' is available from the Daycare Trust, which publishes it, on 020 7840 3350. Photo by Joel Chant

Ofsted team 'lacks expertise'

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The senior management team for Ofsted's Early Years Directorate was unveiled last week, prompting immediate concerns about a lack of expertise in daycare regulation at this level of the new organisation. Of the eight regional managers, two have been heads of inspection with experience of all aspects of daycare regulation. Two are HM inspectors in Ofsted and one is head of Ofsted's contracts division. One of the inspectors is a former early years advisor who has been establishing guidance on the new national standards for daycare, and the other a former assistant director of local authority social services and education departments. The rest are from the Inland Revenue and the Housing Corporation.

Millions in funds for outdoor play

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years settings in poor and disadvantaged parts of England will receive 4m to upgrade their outdoor play facilities. Pre-schools, playgroups, nurseries and childminding networks are being invited to apply for grants that can be spent either to buy new outdoor play equipment or to provide or upgrade an outdoor play area for children. The money will be distributed locally by Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.

How to read the feelings of the young disabled

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* A video to help special needs teachers and nursery nurses recognise the wide range of ways disabled children show their feelings has been launched by three charities. The NSPCC, Triangle and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation joined forces to fund and produce the 'Two-way Street' video and handbook, which challenge preconceptions about the way disabled children communicate. The pack gives information on teaching good practice, highlights common mistakes and stresses the rights of disabled children to be consulted.

Out-of-school care to have cash boost

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Out-of-school clubs in disadvantaged areas are being offered extended funding for up to three years through the New Opportunities Fund. The extra funding of 198.5m announced last week will provide support for the development and long-term sustainability of out-of-school provision throughout the UK. The money will also be used for a nursery initiative to provide capital funds for childcare establishments caring for nought to three-year-olds, expected to be announced during the summer.

'Smack and smoke' defended by Hodge

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Registerd childminders are to be allowed by the Government to smack the children in their care and to smoke in their presence with parental permission, under the national standards for daycare and childminding in England, Margaret Hodge confirmed last week. The equal opportunities and employment minister said there would be no changes to what has been announced already regarding the national standards, which the Department for Education and Employment expects to publish sometime this week. This means that from September, as well as childminders being allowed to smack and smoke, daycare managers and all in supervisory roles must hold a level 3 qualification appropriate to caring for children, with those in charge of baby rooms to have in addition two years' experience with that age group, and at least half of the remaining staff qualified to level 2.

Bring benefits into New Age, Government told

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* The Government should develop policies which make it easier for 'New Age' travellers to gain access to paid work and benefits such as Working Families Tax Credit while maintaining their itinerant, community-centred lifestyle, say researchers at the University of Bath. Their report, Making a living: social security, social exclusion and new travellers, published earlier this week, found that only one traveller out of 39 interviewed in the south-west of England had been able to hold down a temporary job and receive the tax credit.

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