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Male practitioners make their mark

Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Employing three male practitioners, including two in senior positions, has had a positive impact on practice at Choochoos Day Nursery in Kent, according to owner Karla Tabony.

Take twos...giving children confidence

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

James Hempsall outlines how one nursery has seized the opportunity to develop its key worker system in order to deliver an outstanding offer to its large number of twos.

Learning and Development: Revised EYFS - Positive moves

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Engaging with the revised EYFS: the Pen Green team explain why this is a curriculum framework that they can work with.

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Block play

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Children pass through different developmental stages in their style of block play. Anne O'Connor offers advice on making the most of this activity for two-year-olds.

Premises, part 1: Do you understand your rental value?

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Deian Evans, of property consultants Lambert Smith Hampton, explains the importance of a proactive approach to rent renewals.

HR Update: After a long absence is your employee fit to return to work?

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Dealing with a case of long-term sickness can be a difficult issue. Last month's column looked at how to obtain a doctor's report. Once the report has been received, there are a number of further steps to be taken, says Jacqui Mann

EYFS Best Practice: Birth to Three Matters - Back to basics

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Ann Langston, who contributed to the development of Birth to Three Matters, explains its format, history and importance and tells us why it should be dusted down and put back on the shelf as recommended reading for practitioners as they get ready to implement the revised EYFS.

Enabling Environments: Mud - A right mess

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

The play and learning opportunities that one mud hole can provide are extensive. Julie Mountain describes the creativity and experimentation encouraged by playing dirty.

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Follow the leaders

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

How do you keep two-year-olds engaged in a setting for three-year-olds? Penny Tassoni suggests ways of adapting to their different needs.

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - Olympics and Paralympics

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Oakey Dokeys is an exciting place to be in the build-up to the Olympic and Paralympic games, say joint managers Nicola Bushell and Hayley Cannell.

EYP Diary - assessments and reviews

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

How are this year's budding EYPs progressing towards their goal of achieving the sector's gold standard? Here, in the first of a monthly column, Nikki Fairchild, EYP programme co-ordinator at Chichester University provides a snapshot of how her candidates are enjoying their training and meeting its challenges

Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements, Part 2: Suitable people

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Mary Evans outlines how nursery managers now have a bigger responsibility to ensure that all employees are suitable to work with young children and can fulfil the new requirements.

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - flowers and mud

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Revisiting the forest was a day of discovery for the children of Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex, says Martin Pace, director

A doctor's diary ... Epilepsy

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Friday, June 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Dr Raj Thakkar describes the different types of epilepsy, and the causes, treatment and monitoring of the condition.

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.

Nursery Equipment: SEN Resources - On second thoughts

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Resources originally designed to support special educational needs can be beneficial for all young children, says Anne O'Connor.

Nursery Equipment: Gross Motor Skills - Think big!

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Gross motor skills are the building blocks of cognitive development. Annette Rawstrone looks at resources to exercise large muscle groups.

Nursery Equipment: Proprioception - A clean sweep

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Everything from household chores to tumbling heightens body awareness, explains Anne O'Connor.

Nursery Equipment: Construction - Work it out

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Construction play is ideal for developing both gross and fine motor skills. Ruth Thomson provides a round-up of the building sets on offer.

Nursery Equipment: Fine Motor Skills - Helping hands

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Fine motor skills, including how to hold a pencil, are all now within the goal 'Moving and handling'. Jan White suggests experiences to help children become increasingly dextrous.

Nursery Equipment: Ball Skills - Catch!

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Throwing, catching, kicking and batting are essential physical skills with social pluses, says Lala Manners.

Nursery Equipment: Introduction - Action points

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

All aspects of Physical Development need to be catered for under the revised EYFS, says Jan White.

Nursery Equipment: Cross-Laterality - Side to side

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

Alternating actions on either sides of the body, like drumming or riding a wheeled toy, need to be encouraged. Annette Rawstrone explains why.

Nursery Equipment: Vestibular System - In the swing

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Monday, May 28, 2012

| Nursery World

A well-developed vestibular system leaves us feeling physically and emotionally balanced, but it needs to be trained through a range of particular movements, explains Nicole Weinstein

Management round table: Olympics countdown - how prepared are you?

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Friday, May 25, 2012

| Nursery World

Getting ready to welcome millions of visitors to the Olympic Games is an exciting, but daunting, prospect for many providers based in the capital and other hot spots. Meticulous forward planning and careful thought are needed to meet every eventuality, say three nursery managers who are working hard to avoid disruption

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Male practitioners make their mark

Take twos...giving children confidence

Learning and Development: Revised EYFS - Positive moves

Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Block play

Premises, part 1: Do you understand your rental value?

HR Update: After a long absence is your employee fit to return to work?

EYFS Best Practice: Birth to Three Matters - Back to basics

Enabling Environments: Mud - A right mess

Positive Relationships: Behaviour - Follow the leaders

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - Olympics and Paralympics

EYP Diary - assessments and reviews

Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements, Part 2: Suitable people

Enabling Environments: Forest school diary - flowers and mud

A doctor's diary ... Epilepsy

Leadership - Working as a team to ease transitions

Nursery Equipment: SEN Resources - On second thoughts

Nursery Equipment: Gross Motor Skills - Think big!

Nursery Equipment: Proprioception - A clean sweep

Nursery Equipment: Construction - Work it out

Nursery Equipment: Fine Motor Skills - Helping hands

Nursery Equipment: Ball Skills - Catch!

Nursery Equipment: Introduction - Action points

Nursery Equipment: Cross-Laterality - Side to side

Nursery Equipment: Vestibular System - In the swing

Management round table: Olympics countdown - how prepared are you?

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