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New screen time guidelines for early years children

    News
  • Friday, October 28, 2016
    • | Nursery World
A policy statement released by the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) recommends further reductions in the amount of time infants, toddlers and pre-school age children spend in front of a screen.

HR Update - A just reward

    Features
  • Sunday, October 30, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Not everyone is motivated by money, says HR expert Jacqui Mann, who explains that finding the right reward scheme involves knowing your staff well.

What came next?

    News
  • Wednesday, August 14, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children enjoy creating their own storyline in early reading books, as Veronica Carter discovered using PowerPoint Children's early reading books are a lot more interesting and fun now than when I learned to read. With a branching storybook, they can be taken one step further by letting the child decide some aspects of how the story unfolds.

Little and large

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Use the topic to widen children's knowledge of animals 1 Furry friend

The Sure Start North Moor Children's Centre

    News
  • Wednesday, July 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Sure Start North Moor Children's Centre has opened in Montagu, Newcastle, offering community-based facilities to parents and carers of children under five. Services include play and learning sessions, health information and family support and advice. The site has two family rooms, cr che facilities and an outdoor area.

The importance of outdoor learning

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
All children need access to a wide and balanced curriculum that reflects their learning interests and needs. The outdoor learning environment should be rich, rewarding and challenging and support all six areas of learning. * Many children do not have access to a safe outdoor play area or garden at home. The media tends to exaggerate the dangers of the outdoors, which influences parental perceptions. They do not see the outdoors as a safe place.

Back teachers'support team

    News
  • Wednesday, August 14, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Melynda Standring, seconding a motion for a clear career structure and national pay scale for non-teaching classroom staff and nursery workers at the PAT conference 2002. As a rat that has left the sinking ship I feel a bit of a fraud seconding this motion. Not because I don't agree with it, but rather because, despite having a job I loved for many years, I eventually had to put my family first and stop being an underpaid nursery nurse. This year for the first time in ten years we are going on a proper holiday, on an aeroplane. It will only be the second time in the lives of my children that this has been possible.

To the Point: Being born into porn

    Features
  • Monday, June 13, 2011
    • | Nursery World
For weeks last year, my son's arrival at his nursery each day was accompanied by the sight of a half-naked woman in a sexually suggestive pose. We don't live in a red light district. We live in central London, not Amsterdam. Yet each day, we were confronted by a sexualised image we could not avoid. What was it? A billboard for M&S lingerie, right outside the children's centre.

Lunches pack unhealthy punch

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children's lunchboxes contain too much saturated fat, sugar and salt, according to a survey by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). It found that children are eating double the recommended lunchtime intake of saturated fat and sugar, and up to half the recommended daily intake of salt.

Nursery activities

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Follow the example of Chelwood Nursery School in Lewisham and set up a photographic display that will support children's independence Planned learning intentions

Story corner

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Compelling stories - with words or without - and captivating illustrations feature in new books reviewed by Alison Boyle BIG and Small

Childcare is a juggling act for most mothers

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Government childcare policies are failing to address the complexity of the daily life of the modern working woman, according to new research published last week, which found that women continue to bear the brunt of juggling childcare arrangements and the 'school run'. The study, led by Professor Linda McDowell at University College London, looked at who does what in the home, including managing childcare if parents work shifts.

Julia Jensen-Soares

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Seven-year-old Julia Jensen-Soares from Woodlands School in Aberdeen and art teacher Fran Marquis-Faulkes show off some of their ceramic artworks. The school children experimented with clay, tile-making, and glazes with the help of Dundee artist Stephen Bird in a project funded by the Scottish Arts Council. The ceramics were fired in a kiln at the nearby Scottish Sculpture Workshop and the finished creations are now on permanent display in the school. Photo: Paul Reid

Bridging the Age Gap

    Other
  • Monday, October 29, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Bickley Park School nursery in Bromley has been shortlisted for a Perrys Exceptional Community Award for its initiative to bridge the gap between age groups through regular visits to the Crown Meadow Nursing Home, where children read stories and play games with the elderly residents.

Dr Sheila Shribman

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Dr Sheila Shribman has been appointed the national director for children's healthcare services. Dr Shribman replaces Al Aynsley-Green, who assumed his new role as England's children's commissioner in July.

Stacking up

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Paper, scissors and glue are all that is needed to create dazzling 3D decoupage pictures, says Miranda Walker decoupage is the traditional paper craft technique of layering identical pictures one on top of the other to create a 3D effect.

Privileged few

    News
  • Wednesday, August 6, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Could we find some playgroups or nurseries in England paying parents for the privilege of having their children attend? Emily Witcher of Wiltshire's early years and childcare team thinks so ('Session grant fails to cover nursery costs', News, 26 June). Interesting! Trevor Tasker Small World Kindergarten, Ipswich

Star Photo: Muddy Bunnies Forest School

    Other
  • Monday, March 5, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Children at Muddy Bunnies Forest School, part of Banstead Bunnies Pre-School in Surrey, have been hugging their favourite trees – and creating hearts from willow and wool in the woodland.

Party Leader

    Other
  • Monday, June 11, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Sir Vince Cable joined nursery manager Emma Miller to celebrate Beaumont House Day Nursery’s first birthday in Twickenham.

'Keep under-eights away from mobiles'

    News
  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Children under eight should not use mobile phones because of the potential risk of adverse health effects, a leading expert warned last week. Sir William Stewart, chair of the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), said parents should take a 'precautionary approach' to minimise mobile use by young children, despite a lack of conclusive proof that radiation emitted by the phones and masts is dangerous to public health.

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