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Campaign for play

    News
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Play England has launched a new resource to help communities facing cuts to children's play facilities start their own local campaign.

In my View - We still fail children

    Features
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Children are living messages to a time we will not see. They are our most precious resource, and their outcomes should be of concern to every adult.

Missing discs fiasco spurs fears over child database

    News
  • Wednesday, November 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Children's and family groups and opposition politicians have hit out at plans to introduce the ContactPoint database, containing details of every child in England, in the wake of the loss of the HMRC discs.

'Get views in now' on curriculum

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Early years experts are urging practitioners to respond to consultations on the Early Years Foundation Stage and teaching early reading to ensure that the principles of best practice are preserved under the proposed single framework. 'In not replying, we leave ourselves open to being given a curriculum which may not be appropriate for young children,' said early years and literacy specialist Helen Bromley.

Cash handout for literacy projects

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Three projects promoting children's literacy are to receive 560,000 from the Government. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said last week that the projects - Bookstart, a Booktrust project to encourage children's early exposure to books at home; My Home Library, a website run by the Children's Laureate, Anne Fine, to enthuse children about owning their own books; and the Children's Laureate scheme - will receive respectively, 500,000, 50,000 and 10,000.

Just a minute

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Investigating plant growth, sharing personal memories and role playing provide more activities for a time project by Jane Drake Continue to explore the passage of time with children, making sure that all explorations are meaningful. When looking back into a past that is beyond the child's life span, role play provides a 'real' context for learning.

Left-Handers Day event in London's Leicester Square

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - At the Left-Handers Day event in London's Leicester Square brothers Oliver and Hallam Best, aged four and five, got to grips with implements designed specifically for left-handed people like themselves. The event, organised by the Left-Handers Club, also saw the launch of a survey on its website www.left-handersday. com, which aims to compile an accurate picture of how hand preference can affect choices in career, sporting and leisure pursuits, and whether left-handers gravitate towards certain life choices. The survey runs until the end of February 2003.

Foundation stage

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Jane Drake, a partnership advisory teacher in Leeds and author of Planning Children's Play and Learning in the Foundation Stage and Organising Play in the Early Years (David Fulton)

A survey of nurseries at universities

    News
  • Wednesday, July 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A survey of nurseries at universities undertaken by our sister publication, the Times Higher Education Supplement, has found that all but two of the 38 universities that responded provide childcare on or near campus. This compares with just 5 per cent of employers generally who provide on-site childcare for their staff. Monthly costs varied from 825 at Middlesex University to 347 at Brighton. For details visit www.thes.co.uk.

Working Mum - Come clean!

    Features
  • Monday, August 8, 2016
    • | Nursery World
After witnessing uncleanliness in a nursery toilet, Working Mum wonders why staff can’t keep a closer eye on this area

Take your pick

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Mahrukh Choughtai takes a look at the new products and services which will be on show at the exhibition EQUIPMENT

Children visiting last months's Grampian Food Festival

    News
  • Wednesday, July 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children visiting last months's Grampian Food Festival climbed aboard a 'countryside classroom on wheels', a unit provided by the Royal Highland Education Trust that can be set up in school sites with livestock, feed, crop samples and on-board displays. There are also handwashing facilities so children learn about health and hygiene when in contact with animals. Farmer's wife Alyson Hunter said the aim is to teach children about where their food comes from and what farmers do to maintain the environment.

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