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Free advice on the phone for lone parents

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* A freephone advice line for Northern Ireland's 77,000 lone parents has been launched in Belfast. The advice line, funded in part by the National Lottery Charities Board, was set up by Gingerbread Northern Ireland in response to an increased demand from lone parents for confidential and impartial advice.

Elements of success

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Giving babies and toddlers as much freedom as you can to play with sand and water, says Alice Sharp, will add immeasurably to their learning and enjoyment Just as many nurseries are reluctant to let under-threes loose with a pot of paint (see Nursery World, 8 February 2001), so they also shy away from letting the youngest children in their care enjoy the delights of sand and water. It's a shame, because under-threes can derive huge benefits and great pleasure from such play.

In brief...Parents and children

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Parents and children are being urged to walk to school during the week of 21 to 25 May as part of an annual Walk to School event. Brian Smith, chairman of the National TravelWise Association, which organises the road safety event along with the Pedestrians Association, said, 'We are also trying to promote more exercise to prevent health problems in later life, to encourage the habit of walking for short journeys and to find out more about the environment.' For details contact 01992 556119 or visit www.walktoschool.org.uk

Nursery nurses take pay claim to public

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Members of the public sector union Unison will take to the streets in Glasgow on 19 May as they launch a campaign to increase and standardise the pay of nursery nurses across Scotland. Unison members hope that parents and children will join in as they assemble in the city's Blythswood Square at 12.30 and march to George Square to launch the nursery nurses' national regrading claim. The rally is to be addressed by Margaret Jamieson, the Labour MSP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun, a Unison member whose daughter is training to be a nursery nurse.

Speak out!

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries really have nothing to fear from accreditation schemes, says Karen Graham, owner of Rossett House Nursery, Wrexham and director of Childcare North West and Training and Assessment Solutions As an organisation, we are strongly committed to providing high-quality childcare. Self-evaluation has always played an important part in helping us achieve this and, having gained the Investors in People award, we began looking at a number of quality assurance schemes.

Plants get thirsty too

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This is an excellent science experiment that will show children how plants and flowers need water and how they consume it. Resources

Summit meeting

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It's hard not to be charmed by Tivola's latest title, Oscar the Balloonist Flies into the Mountains (Windows/ Mac, CD-Rom, Tivola, 19.99). The high graphic quality of this German-designed programme means attractive depictions of landscapes and animals. The background music is pleasant, the small boy presenter Oscar is engaging and the language-changing facility (you choose from English, German and French) is useful. Above all, the programme is packed with interesting information about unusual creatures such as the marmot and the chamois. However, its charms don't make the programme perfect. Several of the games accessed through Carmela, Oscar's animated toy chest, are too difficult for most children in the target age range of four to eight. In many of the games there is not enough leeway for mistakes, so children will feel easily defeated, and some are badly explained.

Why Ulster should say no to smacking

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Colin Reid, policy advisor with the NSPCC Northern Ireland Not long ago, who would have thought that we would all wear seatbelts when driving, probably wouldn't smoke and if driving, certainly wouldn't drink. These are some of the ways the Government has led public opinion and produced changes in society that we all accept as perfectly sensible and necessary.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An awareness of pattern is fundamental to a child's learning in the early years. The early learning goal relating to pattern - 'talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns'- falls within mathematical development, but pattern permeates the whole early years curriculum,as an understanding of pattern strengthens and develops children's knowledge in all six areas of learning. For example, recognising patterns in nature and the man-made world helps develop children's knowledge and understanding of the world; being aware of pattern in rhyme aids children's language and literacy skills; hearing patterns in music and design enhances children's creative development; regular patterns in everyday routines build security and confidence; patterns in games and dance add to children's physical development.

Scottish libraries to get toy money

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Toy and leisure libraries have received a 75,000 boost from the Scottish Executive to encourage children's learning through play. The additional funding, announced by deputy education minister Nicol Stephen last week, covers the next three years. Mr Stephen said, 'Through play children learn about their environment, how to relate to people and how to recognise and handle everyday objects. It is an essential part of early development. Play is fun and something that can be enjoyed by all the family.'

Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo visited the Buffer Bear at Bessborough Nursery in Pimlico, London, to show the children a guide to help working parents calculate how much help they could get towards the cost of childcare. The childcare tax credit 'ready reckoner' is available from the Daycare Trust, which publishes it, on 020 7840 3350. Photo by Joel Chant

Ofsted team 'lacks expertise'

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The senior management team for Ofsted's Early Years Directorate was unveiled last week, prompting immediate concerns about a lack of expertise in daycare regulation at this level of the new organisation. Of the eight regional managers, two have been heads of inspection with experience of all aspects of daycare regulation. Two are HM inspectors in Ofsted and one is head of Ofsted's contracts division. One of the inspectors is a former early years advisor who has been establishing guidance on the new national standards for daycare, and the other a former assistant director of local authority social services and education departments. The rest are from the Inland Revenue and the Housing Corporation.

Millions in funds for outdoor play

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  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years settings in poor and disadvantaged parts of England will receive 4m to upgrade their outdoor play facilities. Pre-schools, playgroups, nurseries and childminding networks are being invited to apply for grants that can be spent either to buy new outdoor play equipment or to provide or upgrade an outdoor play area for children. The money will be distributed locally by Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships.

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