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Leadership - Working as a team to ease transitions

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  • Friday, June 8, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Nursery leader Leisa Towle has introduced a new approach to finding out about each individual child when they join the nursery at Southwark Primary School in Nottingham. She explains how this benefits everyone.

Leadership - supporting staff to see the whole child

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  • Friday, May 11, 2012
    • | Nursery World
While observation forms an important part of both planning and assessment at Southwark Primary School in Nottingham, nursery leader Leisa Towle recently identified staff who needed more support to undertake it effectively. She explains how this involved helping them to understand what to observe, when and how.

Management Round Table: the perils of paperwork

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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Nursery World's panel of seasoned nursery managers describe their own approaches to dealing efficiently with paperwork while at the same time making sure their staff do not feel over-burdoned by it.

Take twos...using home-to-nursery learning bags

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  • Friday, March 2, 2012
    • | Nursery World
In line with the Tickell review recommendations, provision for two-year-olds will need to place strong emphasis on involving parents in their children's development. James Hempsall outlines the practical steps one nursery is taking to achieve this.

HR Update - how to protect your online profile

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  • Friday, February 3, 2012
    • | Nursery World
When it comes to your employees using social media such as Facebook and Twitter, do you have clear guidelines in place to let them know what is and what isn't acceptable? If not, it's time to, advises Jacqui Mann

Leadership - Men love reading too!

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  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Information gained from carrying out home visits showed that a significant number of children at Southwark Primary School Nursery in Nottingham are from one-parent families and some do not have a male role model at home or in their lives. With this in mind, nursery leader Pip Otter found a way to bring men into the nursery to benefit the children's learning.

Leadership - so much to say about books

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  • Monday, November 28, 2011
    • | Nursery World
At Southwark Primary School in Nottingham, nursery leader Pip Otter is exploring the potential of the 'dialogic book talk' approach, which promotes early language and literacy

Leadership - team learns a lot from looking at levels of children's involvement

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  • Monday, October 3, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Southwark Primary School in Nottingham City has kicked off the new term with training for the EYFS and Year 1 staff about Ferre Laevers scales of involvement and well-being. Believing that levels of children's well-being are already high, nursery leader Pip Otter has decided to focus on levels of involvement during child-initiated play.

To the point: Just playing by the rule

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  • Monday, August 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Recently, someone I respect a good deal said how much she had appreciated the rule that 80 per cent of the assessments for the EYFS Profile had to be child-initiated learning, and only 20 per cent adult-initiated.

Leadership - How to be first-rate

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  • Monday, July 11, 2011
    • | Nursery World
To improve a setting for 90 children, nursery leader Pip Otter carried out an audit, using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales (ECERS). This revealed strengths and weaknesses.

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