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Favourite things

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  • Wednesday, July 28, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children's favourite playthings can serve as tools in activities that will provide plenty of fun in learning with these ideas from Wendy E Scott Toys are invaluable for literally learning through play, initiating discovery and stimulating the development of language. A topic based on toys is easy to create, as you will already have many suitable resources and the children will have their own.

Warm feet

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  • Wednesday, May 2, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An idea for the colder days ahead is Cosyfloor, an underfloor heating system from Demista, designed for areas that are tiled, marble, stone or hardwood and which may feel cold underfoot. It is comprised of thin, insulated and earth-screened cables which are stitched into a reinforced, open weave, glass cloth blanket. The cable mats come in a range of sizes and can be fitted in multiples in baby rooms or play areas or laid around fixed objects like hand basins. The smallest mat covers 0.75 m2 and the largest 4 m2. Cosyfloor warms up in 30 minutes and has a running temperature of between 25 to 30oC. The mats can be installed in any solid based floor in new or old buildings and require no maintenance or automatic controls (a wall-mounted thermostat with remote floor sensor and a 24-hour time clock can be fitted if required). The product comes with a ten-year warranty; prices are available on request. Telephone 01932 866600

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'Venison burgers are the healthy alternative to a Big Mac, and I would rather that Scottish kids eat the food of the McDonalds than the food from McDonald's.' Fergus Ewing of the SNPon the move to serve red deer meat burgers to Scotland's schoolchildren, Scotland on Sunday

Punch & Judy Playgroup in Crieff

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children from the Punch & Judy Playgroup in Crieff enjoyed a medieval storytime with local library assistant Patricia Ace at the Word's Out! Festival, organised by Perth & Kinross Council. Last month's celebration took place in libraries around Perthshire with puppet shows, storytelling, craft activities and magic displays. Photo Paul Reid

Shipwrecked at the theatre

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  • Tuesday, August 17, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Shipwrecked on a craggy island, a little girl named Marie meets a curious, scaly creature called Skitterbang who shows her a cave full of metal and junk, a musical treasure trove washed up by the sea.

Trained workforce is a spending goal

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A commitment to raising the number of early years and childcare workers who hold qualifications is among the Scottish Executive's spending plans for the next three years, presented to the Scottish Parliament last week. The budget report for 2005-2008 states a commitment to improving the skills and qualifications of the childcare workforce by increasing the proportion of early years, childcare and support staff meeting qualification requirements from 66 per cent in September 2003 to 85 per cent by January 2009.

Spread the word

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  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
With fierce competition in the sector, settings need to publicise their business. Rosie Pressland shows how to aim sky-high The childcare sector has never known such growth, and with that unprecedented growth has come greater competition. Now more than ever, settings need to sharpen up their marking techniques if they are to keep ahead of the competition.

Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London

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  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Community spirit flowed in Lewisham, London, when more than 1,000 local people took part in the fourth annual Quaggy Carnival on 26 June. The carnival started with a colourful parade through the streets that finished at Morden Mount Primary School. Revellers enjoyed live music and dance, face painting, Indian head massage and DJ youth projects. The event was organised by the Quaggy Development Trust, a local regeneration organisation, with support from Sure Start West Greenwich.

Play packs made for crisis farm children

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A Devon play association has come up with a pack chockfull of activity ideas, games and resources for children confined to farms isolated by the foot and mouth crisis. Jackie Colby, play development worker for the Teignbridge Play Network, which covers south Devon and parts of Dartmoor, said that the association decided to produce the pack at its monthly meeting. Those present started talking about the various out-of-school clubs and playschemes in the area which were currently not viable because children were unable to attend them under restrictions imposed because of the foot and mouth epidemic.

In brief...The Welsh Assembly is at

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  • Wednesday, April 25, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Welsh Assembly is at the cutting edge of children's policies for the UK, the Welsh minister for children, Jane Hutt, told a meeting of the Rhondda Cynon Taff's Sure Start scheme. She told delegates that a Cabinet sub-committee for children and young people in Wales had met for the first time and that it would drive forward the Assembly's agenda for children, which includes appointing Peter Clarke as children's commissioner. 'We are living at a very exciting time for children's services in Wales,' said Ms Hutt.

Ongoing monitoring and research

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2004
    • | Nursery World
As the Kate Greenaway Nursery School has expanded, we have aimed for every new initiative to be supported by evidence of best practice from elsewhere and shaped by the views of local families. Although it seems daunting at first to have to keep yet more evidence and even more records, planning a simple and elegant system in advance helps a great deal in the long run. The first information that Kate Greenaway needed was evidence about the effectiveness of what it was already doing. In September 2003, when I took up my post, the nursery had just emerged from a difficult period. Through meeting with other colleagues, I have learned that nursery schools can be very vulnerable. Difficulties in recruiting a headteacher, falling birthrates, and the lack of understanding that many local authorities show towards nursery education can all put a nursery school in a shaky position.

By numbers

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  • Wednesday, July 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Labour's plans for a further massive expansion of early years provision seem to be putting quantity before quality - again. Simon Vevers hears what leading figures in the sector think the effects could be An alarmist article in the Guardian (8 July) suggested that nurseries were taking in two-year-olds and churning out anti-social, aggressive children.

Case study: clear evidence

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  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
At Brearley Nursery School in Birmingham taking photographs has evolved from being 'a nice thing to do' to a 'very powerful tool' in documentation, says head teacher Sue Bennett. The 104-place school was inspired to develop its use of photography following a study week in Reggio Emilia, attended by Sue and deputy head Maureen Cryan, and a visit by all staff to the Reggio 100 Languages of Children Exhibition.

New early years social networking site

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  • Tuesday, August 24, 2010
    • | Nursery World
A social networking website called the Unique Child Network has been launched by early years specialist Wendy Ellyatt, who said it focuses on 'the vital importance of the early years and the need to protect the rights of each child as a joyful and uniquely predisposed learner'.

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