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Sitting Comfortably?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A well-organised storytime stimulates children's imagination, enhances their language and social skills - and is fun for the storyteller and those listening Storytime is potentially one of the most enriching experiences in every young child's life - educationally invaluable, socially enhancing and a great deal of fun. Modern educational theory recognises its value. Children who are fed a diet rich in stories develop better than children who don't. It's as simple as that.

TV and radio

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
2 November 'Curriculum development - ICT: Getting started in the primary school' (BBC 2, 3.30 to 4am)

In brief...Woodford Rascals Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Woodford Rascals Nursery in Plympton, Plymouth, is holding a birthday bash for its fifth anniversary this month. Among its achievements the nursery - run by Woodford Schools Trust - will celebrate gaining Investors in People earlier this year, as well as making plans to extend the nursery. The quality assurance award was also recently presented to Westminster Children's Society, which runs nine community nurseries and two workplace nurseries in London.

A disgusting cut

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I think Leicester City Council's decision to cut provision for three-year-olds from the start of next term is disgusting (News, 4 October). My daughter should have had funding in January, but now we have to wait.

Case study

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Charlie, three-and-a-half years old, has been attending Cottingley Primary School nursery in Leeds for six months. When he first entered the nursery, he was very excited by the provision and eager to try everything. Staff were anxious not to dampen Charlie's motivation or to interrupt his enthusiastic investigations. But they recognised that he needed support in learning how to select and use equipment appropriately. They planned to spend one-to-one time with Charlie, in short but regular slots, showing him equipment and how to use the tools in different areas, and teaching him how to follow routines through a sequential approach. Charlie soon picked up on the basics and was increasingly able to work at activities independently. Having acquired these necessary skills, Charlie was able to develop his play further and to become a more effective learner in other areas of the curriculum. He has been keen to take on responsibilities in nursery as he has gained in confidence and become familiar with routines. He often asks if he can, for example, put the fruit in the fruit basket, or put away the bikes at tidying up time. Staff have encouraged Charlie by setting him simple tasks and praising him when these are achieved. Charlie's mother reports that he is ready to take responsibility for some aspects of his own personal hygiene at home, such as brushing his teeth and blowing his nose. She is adopting a step-by-step approach to putting on and fastening his own coat, which nursery staff are reinforcing in the setting. Charlie is encouraged to choose day clothes and pyjamas to wear at home and is starting to take on regular responsibilities, such as feeding the fish and the rabbit and sorting his toys into boxes after play. He is eager to help with the domestic chores and, with adult supervision, transfers clothes from the washing machine to the tumble dryer. Supported by the adults around him, Charlie is gaining in confidence and independence all the time.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Pushing children into reception classes before they are ready does them more damage than not giving them the education at all' Barry Sheerman, chairman of the education and skills select committee, during the House of Commons debate on early years

Registration delays criticised by MPs

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Questions have been asked in a House of Commons debate about delays in the registration of new providers, now the responsibility of Ofsted's Early Years Directorate. Speaking at the recent debate on early years in Westminster Hall (see above), Charlotte Atkins MP said that in Staffordshire, where her constituency is, nearly 1,300 new full daycare places had been created since April 1999. However, there was 'one cloud on the horizon -delays caused by Ofsted'.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
If further proof is needed that the culture of testing and formally assessing young children in our education system needs to be reversed, then our news story on private tuition for toddlers (page 9) provides it. Parents of children as young as two, panicking about their offspring's performance in baseline assessment, SATs and independent school exams, are hiring tutors to help them make the grade. With so much of primary schools' efforts and time now directed towards shoring up their SATs league table positions, it is disturbing but not that surprising that parents feel formal learning has to be drilled in from an increasingly early age.

CACHE bids for early years skills council

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years employers are being urged to back the sector having its own skills council to replace the Early Years National Training Organisation, which will be axed next March. CACHE chief executive Richard Dorrance, who is also the chief executive of the existing NTO, has begun a nationwide campaign to secure the support of 225,000 employers and self-employed people in the sector. He said CACHE, which is formally responsible for the NTO, would be launching the bid.

In brief...The local government School Support Staff Committee

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The local government School Support Staff Committee, attended by school headteachers and representatives from local authorities and unions representing support staff, met for the first time last week. The meeting was welcomed by Transport and General Workers' Union education support staff national representative Chris Kaufman, who said it displayed the Government's recognition of the role that support staff, including classroom assistants, play in delivering high-quality education. He said, 'Together with local government employers, we will now be looking at training and career development as well as pay and reward structures to reflect properly the importance of their work.'

Bringing it all back home

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Fiona Berry, a home educator of her three children in Uxbridge, Middlesex Children today are being forced out of their homes far too early into schools where they are neither loved nor respected. For boys, in particular, rising five is far too young to be expected to read the subtle and sophisticated social rules of school, which is unlike any other social institution, except perhaps prison. School, in my opinion, handicaps children emotionally and educationally.

In brief...2m nursery expansion programme by Aberdeen City Council

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A 2m nursery expansion programme by Aberdeen City Council is on target for completion in December. As a result of the three-year project, every non-denominational primary school will have a nursery class either on-site or nearby. The council has created 360 extra nursery places over the past three years, ensuring that every three-and four-year-old whose parent wants to take up a pre-school place has access. Kirkhill School in Kincorth has doubled its nursery provision to 80 places, and head teacher Lorraine Brodie said, 'The benefits of gaining nursery experience before moving on to Primary One can't be emphasised enough. It means children get used to the routines of the school day early, they get used to mixing with and getting to know their classmates, and they learn important skills like sharing.'

Paper chase

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The transfer of care inspections and registration to Ofsted has been steeped in chaos. Mary Evans talks to nurseries about their experiences Early years providers had been looking forward to the start of the registration and inspection regime operated by Ofsted. Now they are finding that instead of the new broom sweeping everything clean, it is in some cases creating chaos and confusion.

In brief...Enhanced role of teaching assistants

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The enhanced role of teaching assistants and the need to give them adequate training is being addressed by a one-day course in Derby this month. The course, entitled 'The role of the teaching assistant', is being organised by Professionals Allied to Teaching (PAtT) - a section of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) - and the Bristol-based Select Education Training. It will be held at the PAT headquarters on 17 November. Contact Select Education Training on 0117 9220791.

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