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A bilingual compact disc

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  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A bilingual compact disc has been produced by the Welsh Dyslexia Project to give parents a multi-sensory way of understanding their child's difficulties and what they can do to help. The English-Welsh CD has been designed to complement a bilingual booklet, Guide for Parents, which was produced in collaboration with Wales Digital College. Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, praised the work of the Project, which has also received funding from the Welsh Assembly to produce a dyslexic diagnostic test for Welsh-speaking children with special educational needs. She said, 'The commitment, research and hard work of organisations such as the Welsh Dyslexia Project are extremely valuable. The CD reflects moves to include and support parents of children with special educational needs.' For more information, contact the Project on 01239 682849.

Radio appeals to children's senses

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  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Anew radio project wants to encourage young children to 'see' with their ears. The 'Let's Make Radio' project promotes radio as an essential tool in the development of listening and speaking skills in early years children. The scheme, developed in partnership with Abracadabra!, the children's radio service, encourages childcarers and teachers to embrace the opportunities radio can bring.

Ask the expert

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  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour. Q. We have two children (both four-year-olds) currently in our nursery who each have an imaginary friend. One child just uses her friend in her pretend play: chatting and involving the friend in domestic role play in the home corner. We realise that many young children have an imaginary friend, so we do not see this automatically as a problem. However, the second child really seems to need his 'friend' to speak up for him. His father is getting worried that his son can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

Look out for the ratio of fees to wages

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  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
In the 28 March edition of Nursery World, there were two items that particularly interested me - the news story 'Nursery profits "are hyped to investors"' concerning the Children's Nurseries - UK Market Sector Report by Laing and Buisson, and the letter 'Between a rock and a hard place' by Kirsty Lester, who owns a day nursery. If, as according to the Laing and Buisson report, the average fee for a full-time nursery place is 120 a week and the average hourly rate of nursery nurses is 5.45, then day nurseries like ourselves which charge just 80 per week (because that is all the local economy can stand) should be paying staff an average of Pounds 3.63 per hour on a pro-rata basis. National Minimum Wage requirements, however, are considerably higher, and the lowest wage paid in this nursery is Pounds 4.40 per hour.

In brief...The Manchester Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership

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  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Manchester Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership will explore the theme 'working together' at its annual conference on Wednesday 19 September. Speakers at the event, to be held at Manchester City Football Ground, will include Naomi Eisenstadt, head of the Sure Start unit, and Laurence Blackhall, from the Department for Education and Skills, who will be talking to delegates about the Neighbourhood Nursery programme in Manchester. For more information contact Laura Koonjean or Stephanie Hailwood on 0161 273 3646.

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