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Take twos - stretching the offer

    Features
  • Monday, May 19, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Stretching the two-year-old offer across the year has the potential to make life easier for children and families - and has advantages for providers as well, says James Hempsall.

Surrogacy families

    News
  • Wednesday, February 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Surrogacy families: parental functioning, parent-child relationships and psychological development at age two Second phase of a longitudinal study of families created through surrogacy. Around the child's second birthday, 37 surrogacy families were compared with 48 egg donation families and 68 natural conception families. Surrogacy mothers showed more positive parent-child relationships, and surrogacy fathers had lower levels of parenting stress. Surrogacy children did not differ from the natural conception children with respect to socio-emotional or cognitive development.

Nursery Chains: 30 hours - Open all hours

    Features
  • Monday, November 13, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The roll-out of the 30 hours offer in September has been met with a mixed reaction in the sector. Charlotte Goddard speaks to chains of various sizes to find out how they are coping with delivery

Primary packages

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Head teacher, Laurence Keel, assesses software covering art, 3-D animation and staff development Kahootz is a software package that is primarily designed for upper KS2 pupils and older. It allows the user to create an animated 3-D scene, or a sequence of scenes, from a resource bank containing settings and objects.

Kiwi fruit

    News
  • Wednesday, February 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Nutritional value By weight, kiwi fruit are the most nutrient-dense fruit we eat. They are rich in potassium and have useful amounts of calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, some B vitamins and vitamin E. They have more vitamin C than oranges: a quarter of a kiwi fruit will supply a young child's daily requirement. The enzyme actinidin aids digestion, and the fibre in a kiwi fruit helps keep children regular. High in phytochemicals, kiwi fruit can help prevent a range of diseases including heart disease. They boost the immune system and offer substantial protection against the kind of DNA damage that can cause cancer.

The Big Picture - Hetty on show

    News
  • Monday, May 29, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Foundling Museum in London has opened a family-friendly exhibition devoted to Hetty Feather – Dame Jacqueline Wilson’s young Victorian heroine

Nurseries want to abandon scheme

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Cuts to the nursery education grant (NEG) that private nurseries in Northumberland receive from the local authority are prompting them to consider withdrawing from the scheme. Lisa Lowes, owner of the Rainbow Day Nursery in Alnwick, said the reduction from 406 per child per term last year to 375 in the current year had provoked an angry reaction from providers.

Nord Anglia looks to future

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Nord Anglia Education, the UK's largest nursery chain with more than 10,200 places, announced last week that it had completed the reorganisation of its nursery division several months ahead of schedule. In a statement giving a year-end update to shareholders, the company said that the outlook for the new financial year was 'positive'. It said, 'The directors anticipate a substantially increased contribution from the nursery division in the new financial year, reflecting the maturing profile of the group's portfolio.'

Quality scheme 'can offset scare stories'

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Independent Nurseries Association is calling for a national quality assurance scheme for all early years settings in Scotland to reassure parents in the wake of a spate of scare stories in the media. SINA director Mairi Maciver Clark said she envisaged that such a scheme would be similar to Investors in People status, but apply to all early years care and education providers, whether in the voluntary, private or local authority sectors.

Term-time staff set to win full-time deal

    News
  • Wednesday, January 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Term-time school support staff in Northern Ireland look set to accept proposals put forward by the Province's five Education and Library Boards which will give them full-time contracts and benefits. Acceptance of the draft proposals tabled by Board management on 20 December, the day before the end of term, would bring the long-running 16-month dispute to an end. NIPSA, the trade union representing the 5,000 classroom assistants, secretaries and technicians affected, gave the proposals a very warm welcome and said it had now put plans for strike action 'on hold' while it sought clarification of some points.

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