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HR Update - Who should pay for DBS?

    Features
  • Monday, December 2, 2013
    • | Nursery World
There has been much confusion about what nursery owners can and need to do about the new DBS checks. Should the employer or the employee pay for them? Jacqui Mann explains.

The Village Kindergarten in Brant Broughton

    News
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The Village Kindergarten in Brant Broughton, near Lincoln, held a joint celebration last month when it marked its first birthday with a teddy bears' picnic to raise funds for the health charity Action for Sick Children. Around 50 children, parents and grandparents joined in the fun at the 24-place setting. Kindergarten owner Gill Thornton said, 'We got the idea from a flyer that came with Nursery World in the spring. The children had their faces painted, made bear masks and ate teddy biscuits. We also had a visit from Bernard the Bear.'

Home Visits

    Other
  • Monday, September 18, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Children at Sutton Day Nursery in Surrey visited their local care home, drawing pictures and playing parachute games with the residents.

Out of curiosity

    News
  • Wednesday, January 8, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Some early years settings in Britain are now engaged in projects that attempt to put the Reggio approach into action as a creative process Central to the Reggio approach is a respect for children's natural curiosity and creativity and their ability to produce powerful theories about the world and how it works. Many of these theories become the basis for long-term projects which provide opportunities for children to express their ideas, reflect, and discuss, question and advance their own understanding.

Applications for the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership

    News
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Applications for the National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) programme are due in by 28 April. The qualification is now in its second year and provides multi-agency training for managers in integrated early years settings. The programme fees are subsidised by the National College for School Leadership. For information on how to apply see www.ncsl.org.uk.

Children's minister Beverley Hughes and Ofsted's director of early years, Dorian Bradley

    News
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Children's minister Beverley Hughes and Ofsted's director of early years, Dorian Bradley, will address the National Day Nurseries Association annual conference being held on 5-6 June in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. The conference aims to provide business advice as well as guidance on childcare, with other speakers including BBC television personality Rene Carayol, presenter of 'How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years'. The third official NDNA Annual Awards dinner also takes place on 5 June, celebrating excellence in the day nursery sector. Visit www.ndna.org.uk for details.

CWDC puts 3.3m into local plans

    News
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is to invest 3.3m in local workforce initiatives as part of its 2006/07 Business Plan. The plan was published last week and further details are to follow next month. Part of the 3.3m will be used to support local workforce strategies to deliver areas of the Children's and Young People's Plan.

Education action plan has broad remit

    News
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A programme of action for education from now up to 2010 has been launched by the Welsh Assembly. 'The Learning Country 2: Delivering on the promise' identifies key actions the Assembly aims to take in relation to early years education, schools, special educational needs, the 14-19 agenda, children and young people's participation, further and higher education, skills and supporting practitioners.

Association and the British Heart Foundation

    News
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Sue Wayne, regional manager of the Stroke Association, listens to the heart of seven-year-old Emma Buggins, who had a stroke when she was four, at the start of Stroke Awareness Week. The event, run jointly by the Association and the British Heart Foundation, aims to warn the public that unless children become more physically active they run a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks as adults. Sue Wayne, regional manager of the Stroke Association, listens to the heartbeat of seven-year-old Emma Buggins, who had a stroke three years ago when she was four. They were at Canary Wharf to publicise the start of Stroke Awareness Week, a joint initiative between the Association and the British Heart Foundation. The Foundation said that because one in six children say they don't have time to do physical activities, it was seeking to highlight the fact that unless children become more active now the number of strokes and heart attacks will increase in the next 30 to 40 years when they are adults.

Building work has begun at Links Children's Centre in Wecock, Waterlooville

    News
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Building work has begun at Links Children's Centre in Wecock, Waterlooville, with 250,000 funding from Hampshire County Council. The new facilities should be finished in August and will include a pushchair store, a community room and an external play area. The centre aims to become a one-stop shop with services ranging from childcare and early education to parenting courses and family health.

Maggie may?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 10, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The early years sector responded with anxiety to the news that Ofsted was to take over care inspections from local authorities. The idea conjured up images of an invasion of bureaucrats bullying childminders into a state of nervous exhaustion. The then chief inspector of schools, Chris Woodhead, offered little in the way of reassurance when he insisted that neither the head of the directorate, nor its management team, needed specific early years experience.

TummyTubs used in cooling down phase of mother and baby classes

    News
  • Tuesday, March 31, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The tub is the place to wind down after a baby massage class in Ijmuiden, the Netherlands. Practitioners use the water-filled TummyTubs in the cooling down phase of the classes for mothers and babies to simulate a womb-like environment and help infants to relax in the familiar foetal position. The TummyTub was designed in the Netherlands with the aim of easing the child's transition from its mother's womb to the outside world.

In defence of Rose

    News
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Rose Review, in my opinion, reaches entirely sound conclusions. A judicious balance is struck between three sources of evidence: theory, research, and practice. Rose notes that research shows systematic phonics teaching enables children to make better progress than unsystematic or no phonics. The evidence is so strong that there should not be any argument against the use of systematic phonics teaching for initial literacy.

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