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The Big Picture - By design

    News
  • Monday, January 13, 2014
    • | Nursery World
The £1.5million Northumbria University Nursery building has won the 2013 Lord Mayor's Design Award in the Small Scale Development category.The bi-annual awards focus on excellence in architecture and environmental design.

The Big Picture - Garden of life

    News
  • Sunday, April 30, 2017
    • | Nursery World
This water fountain is one of the features of a new £30,000 outdoor area at Clockwork Nursery in Audenshaw, Greater Manchester.

Two-year-olds pilots start next month

    News
  • Wednesday, March 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities in England will pilot free childcare for two-year-olds from next month. Plans to extend nursery education to 12,000 two-year-olds in 500 areas of disadvantage were originally announced by Chancellor Gordon Brown more than two years ago in a spending review.

People and places

    News
  • Wednesday, March 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Bright Horizons Family Solutions, the UK's fourth-largest nursery chain, has been awarded Investors in People status. General manager Ian Stocks said, 'Our dedicated early education professionals make a lasting difference to the lives of young children and their families and support our clients' efforts to offer high quality early care and education for their employees.' * Steps Ahead Day Nursery and Nursery School in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, has also achieved Investors in People status. Principal Janine Collishaw, said, 'Our staff are our biggest asset and I see their training and development as a priority.'

Share books at home or abroad

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Children's Book Week starts on 1 October and will see who wins the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award, run jointly with the charity Booktrust. Why wait? - you can read all six shortlisted titles any time with your youngest charges. They are Baby's Very First Book - Farm, by Jo Lodge; Baby Faces by Sandra Lousada; Sleepyhead by Nicola Smee; If You're Happy and You Know It by Annie Kubler; Peekaboo Baby! by Mandy Ross, illustrated by Kate Merritt; and Where, Oh Where, Is Baby Bear? by Debi Gliori. Meanwhile you can do a good turn by sharing any old books you're clearing out of the house with children in the world's poorer countries, where books are a luxury item. Book Aid International is eager to receive donations of fiction and non-fiction books for any age that are in good condition, up-to-date, and as universal as possible in subject matter (for example, no UK atlases!). Contact Diane Aslett at Book Aid International, 39-41 Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell, London SE5 9NR (020 7733 3577).

Behind the scenes

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Did you ever think your nannying skills would be useful in the film world? Nanny Zoe Warner-Deards found they are It all started with a phone call from a director's assistant I'd done some work for on a parenting documentary a couple of years ago. A screenplay written some years ago had finally got funding and filming was going ahead the next month. Would I be interested in being a chaperone looking after two main child actors, and some schoolchildren between six and 11 years old, on location in Porlock Weir, Somerset? Oh yes! - although I didn't know what 'chaperoning' would actually involve. But it seemed like the perfect opportunity to be part of a film without being on screen.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The requirement in reception classes to implement the opposing approaches of the Foundation Stage and the literacy hour is setting up tensions almost impossible to resolve. As this week's Special Report 'Breaking point' (pages 10-11) highlights, two such different methods cannot really co-exist in harmony. A long, hard struggle by early years experts finally ensured that the Foundation Stage guidance stressed the importance of play and informal teaching methods. But the literacy hour stems from a very different philosophy, however much the Department for Education and Skills claims covering elements of it in reception is 'fully consistent with the early learning goals'.

iPhone game withdrawn

    News
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009
    • | Nursery World
A game in which players can quiet a virtual crying baby by shaking it, available on the Apple iPhone, has been withdrawn after a deluge of complaints.

Hammer Time

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  • Monday, July 24, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Children at Bright Horizons Tytherington Day Nursery and Preschool in Macclesfield took part in a woodwork activity to improve their fine motor skills.

Three-year-old Bella Shirsinger-Barton is sitting pretty

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Three-year-old Bella Shirsinger-Barton is sitting pretty in the winner of the Show Product of the Year at the Baby and Child International Fair in London's Earls Court.The prize-winning Trio car seat by Britax suitable for children from nine months can be used with a harness or a lap and diagonal seatbelt or as a booster. Photo Michael Melia

Smile!

    News
  • Wednesday, January 1, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Picture your nursery creating a photographer's studio for real or pretend portraits, as Denise Bailey suggests Children in our nursery enjoyed turning a small area in our setting into a photographic studio. We have always had cameras in our home corner, but the project stemmed from the children's interest in photographs that had been taken in the setting and in photographs included in displays.

Childcare closures treble on last year

    News
  • Wednesday, March 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Three times as many childcare places closed in 2004-05 as in the previous year, according to figures released by children's minister Beverley Hughes. During a debate on the Childcare Bill in the House of Commons last week, shadow childcare minister Paul Goodman cited statistics Ms Hughes had provided in a written answer, which showed that in 2004-05 the number of full daycare places closed was 65,577, up from 7,627 in 2003-04, while last year she said 72,222 out-of- school and 62,972 childminding places were closed.

Nurseries urged to help children of drug abusers

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nursery school staff are being asked to join other professionals in keeping a watchful eye out for children whose parents are drug addicts in a draft national strategy, Getting Our Priorities Right, published by the Scottish Executive this month. Launching the document, deputy education minister Nicol Stephen said, 'Drug abuse destroys lives, and children are often the most damaged. This guidance provides a way forward for services across Scotland working together.'

In brief...Glasgow City Council's education services committee

    News
  • Wednesday, September 26, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Glasgow City Council's education services committee is considering introducing a new integrated model of education for under-12s at a meeting today (September 27). The committee will discuss a report which proposes ending the distinctions between the pre-school, primary and special educational needs sectors and creating seamless provision for all children between three and 12, either on one 'campus' or a closely-connected family of sites.

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