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In brief...A website on the national curriculum

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  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
  • | Nursery World
A website to guide children aged five to 11 and their parents through the national curriculum in England has been set up jointly by the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. The website, 'Digger and the Gang', follows the adventures of a gang of children and their dog Digger while giving users experience of different subjects and levels of learning across the curriculum. The website can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/education/ schools/digger.

Feeling the heat

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  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
  • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses and classroom assistants are being put under pressure by the growing teacher recruitment crisis, often left to cope alone. Mary Evans investigates Schools are beginning the new year facing a teacher shortage described by Ofsted chief inspector Mike Tomlinson as the worst he has seen in his 35-year career in education. However, an academic leading a major study on classroom assistants says that the practice of using support staff for teaching is masking the true extent of the crisis.

My week at work: Sure footed

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  • Tuesday, April 23, 2002
  • | Nursery World

As an outreach worker for a Sure Start programme Julie Slingsby provides vital support for families with babies and toddlers. Here she describes a typical working week

School provision plans see fresh wave of criticism

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  • Friday, September 19, 2014
  • | Nursery World
Early years organisations have renewed their call for the Government to abandon its drive for more schools to offer places for two-year-olds, in light of findings from the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual survey on the state of the early years sector.

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