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In brief...Nearly half of the teaching

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nearly half of the teaching principals in Catholic schools in Northern Ireland have been diagnosed as suffering from depression or stress, according to the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools. Its report, Key health and welfare issues for teaching principals, said that two-thirds of teaching principals want to leave their jobs because of stress and their 'intolerable workload'. Two-thirds of primary and nursery heads in the Province are teaching principals.

Combined forces

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Professionals working with Sure Start schemes are truly helping families in deprived areas to help themselves, as Anne Wiltsher reports Sure Start is a 'very exciting way to work', according to Lynda Hassall, team member of the programme which has been operating in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, since February last year. 'I spent ten years as a social worker being constrained by resources and asking how on earth can we manage to help people? Now we can say, "What would make a difference to you?"', she says.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This three-part project covers all six areas of learning, indicated by: Personal, social and emotional development

Pink and blue

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Boys and girls are individuals from the first weeks of life, but they are not born significantly different in behaviour or temperament as a result of their sex. There are no sex differences that support some of the confident predictions by adults about how children will turn out. The influence of nurture can be seen very early on, when many adults assume that a crying baby boy needs a lively bounce, whereas a fretful baby girl needs a calming cuddle. In your childcare training you will have discussed the practice of equal opportunities in gender - how we treat girls and boys. But when you work as a nanny, you need to consider how to apply these ideas in somebody else's home, with a sensitivity to parents' preferences in their own family.

In brief...News

    News
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The telephone number for the Pre-school Learning Alliance given in the feature 'Take your pick' (19 April) should be 020 7833 0991, not 020 7837 4942, which is a fax number.

Garden mishaps spark new alert

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Parents and childcare settings are being advised to child-proof gardens, after the Government reported a 20 per cent rise in the number of garden-related accidents involving children. According to statistics taken from the Department of Trade and Industry's latest Home Accident Surveillance Statistics (HASS) report, the number of children aged ten and under suffering a serious accident in the garden has increased over the past five years from 94,000 to 113,000, with two-and three-year-olds accounting for nearly a quarter of the accident total.

Date rape

    News
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
There have been a number of incidences where women have been raped after being given illegal drugs in a drink without their knowledge. To prevent this, watch while your drink is poured and never leave it unattended.

Know the law

    News
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Department of Trade and Industry, Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, Room UG65, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0ET (enquiries tel 0845 955 5105; website http://www.dti.gov.uk/er). Can help you to obtain: The Employment Agencies Act 1973: guidance on the Act and regulations The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 1976

Worldly goods

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Multicultural resources should ideally teach children about other societies. Jenny Benjamin says vive la difference Before embarking on any discussion of multicultural products, it is important to recognise that they fall into two different groups. The first contains products that depict people from a range of ethnic backgrounds - jigsaws, books, dolls, small world toys and the like.

Get real

    News
  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Meanwhile, if you're still changing nappies rather than sheets, you might like to know that this is Real Nappy Week. Back in the old days, looking after a baby involved buckets around the house reeking of ammonia and filling up with soiled cloth nappies until it was time for yet another load of washing. Then came disposable nappies, probably the second greatest revolution in modern women's lives after the Pill. But, like the Pill, the wide use of disposable nappies has been blamed for declining male fertility rates and disruptions in sex hormones. It's the overflowing landfill sites, however, that have spurred the environmentally-minded back to terry nappies, and even this trend would never have got off the ground without an accompanying boom in commercial nappy laundering services to bypass those household buckets. For details of your nearest service, ask the National Association of Nappy Services on 020 8299 4519.

Sure Start: Combined forces

    News
  • Tuesday, April 24, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Professionals working with Sure Start schemes are truly helping families in deprived areas to help themselves, as Anne Wiltsher reports

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'I have had bruises from children. I know other teachers and children who have been cut with scissors. People are being spat at and kicked and I have seen chairs hurled around the room by children' Nursery teacher Suzan Gokova, of Claremont Primary and Nursery School in Nottinghamshire, who told the Association of Teachers and Lecturers conference that behaviour among nursery children is deteriorating, BBC Online

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