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Nursery staff will juggle computers with martial arts

An extensive two-week training period for staff at a new nursery has seen them learning yoga, tai chi and juggling, as well as discovering how to get the best use out of computers when working with the under-fives. Technotots Nursery, due to open shortly in Dundee, Scotland, aims to mix traditional pre-school methods of care with the latest computer technology to help children develop computing skills at an early age and to get the maximum benefit from the latest innovations.

Technotots Nursery, due to open shortly in Dundee, Scotland, aims to mix traditional pre-school methods of care with the latest computer technology to help children develop computing skills at an early age and to get the maximum benefit from the latest innovations.

Nursery director Angela McGoldrick said, 'It was important that our staff came together as a team before beginning to work in a brand new nursery. They had to learn a lot about technology, as well as the traditional nursery skills many of them have been used to.'

Because computers will play such an important role in Technotots - the building is even designed to look like a computer - it is considered vital that all staff members' computer skills are up-to-date.

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