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Your wish is ...

    News
  • Thursday, January 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
...the Government's command? Mahrukh Choughtai spoke to a cross-section of those working at the frontline of the early years sector to find out what is on their wish-list for care and education in 2003

NDNA Accredited

    Other
  • Monday, November 30, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Bright Beginnings Childcare, based at University of Leeds, has achieved a Level 3 accreditation in the NDNA e-Quality Counts scheme.

Inclusion - Supporting… Jaipreet

    Features
  • Monday, November 12, 2018
    • | Nursery World
How one nursery in the West Midlands helped a Punjabi-speaking girl become a confident talker in English before moving on to school. By Annette Rawstrone

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, March 29, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The many voices in the early years sector raised against enforcing formal phonics instruction for children younger than five appear to have been ignored. Jim Rose's review, which contains much good sense about the importance of rich literacy opportunities for young children and the professional autonomy of teachers, nevertheless advocates class group teaching of synthetic phonics by five. The national curriculum will be altered by the Government accordingly. There is much unhappiness at the implications of this and how it could jeopardise good early years practice by increasing the downward pressure for inappropriate approaches to the Foundation Stage curriculum. Many experts and advisors are worried about speaking out. It is vital that the issues are debated now, however, with the new Early Years Foundation Stage going into consultation after Easter, and training materials for implementing synthetic phonics to be published in time for the September start.

Cavendish Primary School

    News
  • Wednesday, March 29, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children at Cavendish Primary School in Bradford, West Yorkshire, were presented with colourful treasure boxes filled with books as part of a Bookstart scheme to make reading and writing more fun. The boxes, containing secret storage compartments for books and toys, were given to all three-year-olds at the nursery, along with an activity book and crayons to encourage active learning.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, January 1, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Happy New Year to all Nursery World readers. 2003 no doubt will be another eventful year for the early years sector, as more details are revealed about how the recommendations of the cross-cutting spending review, including the launch of the children's centres, will be implemented. And a national inquiry into the accessibility and affordability of childcare will be held in spring by the Work and Pensions select committee (see News, page 4). The new Foundation Stage profile will be carried out by the end of the school year, and the under-threes framework is being distributed to childcarers. Find out what early years figures are wishing for 2003 in our Special Report, pages 10-11. Outdoor provision remains a key issue for 2003, and we'll be announcing the results of our Outdoor Challenge competition later this month. Hundreds of entries flooded in from settings desperate to upgrade their outside areas so they can offer children the opportunities they need.

Thumbs up

    News
  • Wednesday, March 29, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The pilot of Wales' Foundation Phase has gained widespread approval and highlighted possible lessons for the future in improving practice everywhere, says Simon Vevers 'Excellent and long overdue', 'the most beneficial curriculum for children I have ever experienced' - these are just some of the accolades that practitioners in the 41 pilot settings have been heaping on the Welsh Foundation Phase, following its implementation last year.

Child poverty aim 'can't rely on jobs'

    News
  • Wednesday, January 1, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The target of halving child poverty in Britain by 2010 will fail if the Government relies too heavily on its pledge to get 70 per cent of lone parents into work during the same timespan, according to the National Council for One Parent Families. A study, One Parent Families, Poverty and Labour Policy, commissioned by the charity and carried out by Cambridge University, says the Government must also regularly up-rate benefit and tax credit levels and increase the minimum wage and tax allowances in line with incomes rather than prices.

Changing world

    News
  • Wednesday, October 3, 2001
    • | Nursery World
While our ideas about computer use by young children continue to change, says John Siraj-Blatchford, they can be introduced to new technology in age-appropriate ways I recently came across a schools advertisement for a Sinclair ZX81 computer and it reminded me how much the focus and the purposes of information and communications technology education have changed over the years along with the technology itself. While the aim of ICT education that we took for granted in the 1960s was for children in schools to ultimately learn to write programmes for computers, by the end of the 1980s the focus had changed to teaching children how to operate them.

MPs to scrutinise childcare costs

    News
  • Wednesday, January 1, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The suitability and affordability of childcare in Britain is to be the subject of an inquiry in the spring by the Work and Pensions select committee. The UK-wide inquiry will look at how suitable and affordable childcare can be provided for all parents who need it to enable them to work. Areas to be covered will include:

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