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New book series aimed at traveller children

    News
  • Wednesday, April 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The first book in a series aiming to encourage traveller children of primary school age to read has just been published. It features colourful photographs and descriptions of traditional wagons, barges and modern caravans, which are compared to the houses and flats of non-travellers. Houses and Homes, published by the Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group, is the first of a planned 100-plus books, aimed at children in Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. Series editor Robert Dawson said, 'Lack of literacy is still often used as a weapon against travellers, knowing that older ones, especially, cannot read or understand official documents.'

What should I do if a child wants to tell me something important?

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Make no mistake - you are in a huge position of trust here. A child is giving you information they may never have given to anyone else, so the way you deal with it will be vital. If a young person tells you that they want to talk to you about something that is worrying, hurting or frightening them:

CWDC reports on year's work

    News
  • Tuesday, August 12, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) published its annual report and accounts for 2007-2008 last week.

Degree benefits are immeasurable

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I would like to respond to the feature 'The first degree' (16 May) as I feel the article painted a rather gloomy picture of the benefits for early years practitioners of studying for an Early Childhood Studies degree. The article acknowledged that such degrees can provide a route into teaching, and other careers, but then it reverted to the ongoing issue of low pay and inadequate career progression for early years practitioners. Only a limited range of views was presented. A more balanced perspective might have been offered if more students, and those on part-time degrees (combining studying with early years work) had been included.

Worth recognition

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I am a nursery nurse working in a primary school reception class. I have the qualifications the NAMCW Advanced Certificate in Childcare and Education, NAMCW Conversion to Diploma and NAMCW Certificate in Nursery management. When completing the courses we were told NAMCW (National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare) would no longer exist and that it would now be called CACHE (Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education). Unfortunately, few people recognise my qualification and when trying to obtain a degree, my qualifications do not count in the same way as CACHE.

Regulation issue

    News
  • Wednesday, April 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The drive for tighter regulation of nanny agencies - in the absence of registration for nannies themselves - is moving from Scotland into England. Julia Harris (above), who runs North West Childcare, based in Manchester, is lobbying the Government on the issue. If agencies were registered, Julia says, 'Parents would be able to select an agency secure in the knowledge that it adhered to strict vetting procedures. And they would be able to claim the new tax credit introduced on 6 April.'

An Introduction to Early Childhood

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  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
AN INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD: A multidisciplinary approach. Edited by Tim Waller. (Paul Chapman, ISBN 1 4129 103 6 6, Pounds 16.99, 020 7324 8500) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant

Critical issues in early childhood education

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  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
CRITICAL ISSUES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. Edited by Nicola Yelland. (Open University Press, ISBN 033 5215963 , 18.99, 01628 502 500) Reviewed by Jennie Lindon, psychologist and early years consultant

Nurseries closed by E.coli infection closes nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, June 27, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Wheelies were the order of the day as children from the Hurst Pre-school Playgroup in Sidcup, Kent, raised 400 for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. About 65 entrants aged from two to four were sponsored for the number of times they pushed their buggies round a circuit of the grounds. Photo Michael Melia

Traveller children: On the road

    News
  • Tuesday, April 22, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Building trust in the pre-school years can encourage traveller families into the formal education system, writes Judith Napier

Goals for language

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Early learning goals The early learning goals require settings to:

Paying for checks

    News
  • Wednesday, November 16, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Taking Ofsted out of the loop on Criminal Records Bureau checks was a sensible move. Rather less sensible is the recent announcement that the DfES subsidy which pays for CRB checks on daycare staff will not apply to repeat checking. Any person moving from one setting to another will have a new check paid for out of public funds. But settings that want to check their staff regularly - which is purely voluntary - will have to fork out 50 a time, plus VAT which they cannot recover.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Schools across the country are up in arms about shortfalls in their budget allocations which, they say, mean that it will be impossible for them to implement the Workload Reduction Agreement, with massive implications for teachers and teaching assistants (see News, page 4). The problems are not surprising if we look at what has already been happening where improved pay and career structures have been agreed for nursery nurses and classroom assistants. In some areas, an attractive-looking pay scale and grading structure has been rendered more-or-less meaningless because budgets dictate that no-one is being put on the higher grades and new posts are all being advertised at the bottom of the scale.

Freedom is the vital ingredient

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
In my previous column I used the analogy of food to argue that a poor diet of activities in children's free time is just as bad for them as junk food. But what does a balanced diet of 'middle years' childhood experiences look like?

Liberton Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Maggie Adamson came face to face with a troll during a performance of the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff' at Liberton Nursery in Edinburgh. Workshops and shows are taking place across Scotland as part of the twentieth Puppet Animation Festival, the UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children. For more information contact the Puppet Animation Festival at the MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling, on 01786 467155, or e-mail puppetanimation@stir.ac.uk. Photograph by Paul Reid

The twentieth Puppet Animation Festival

    News
  • Wednesday, April 16, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The twentieth Puppet Animation Festival, the UK's oldest and largest performing arts festival for children, got off to a good start when Chameleon Puppets and Kidgloves Puppets visited Liberton Nursery in Edinburgh for a puppet show and a workshop. Ken Hardie of Kidgloves Puppets said that he likes children to interact with the puppets in a pantomime style and found the four- and five-year-olds at Liberton very enthusiastic. Using familiar stories, such as 'Little Red Riding Hood' and the 'Three Billy Goats Gruff', Mr Hardie weaves together a selection of stories of five to ten minutes each to make a show that invites audience participation.

'Support families, don't punish them'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 9, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new 'ethic of care' needs to be fostered in public policy to support family relationships and children's well-being, according to an independent commission set up to look at the relationship between the state and the family. The Commission on Families and the Well-being of Children was established last year by the National Family and Parenting Institute and NCH, with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Scarecrow Festival

    News
  • Wednesday, August 20, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Passers-by might have to look twice at a tableaux of nine young children climbing over a nursery wall at Gorseway nursery school in Hayling Island, Hampshire.

Caring and sharing

    News
  • Wednesday, May 29, 2002
    • | Nursery World
This Early Excellence Centre has a well-developed system for sharing its ideas, as Julian Grenier found Val Buckett, the head teacher of Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, is not proud. 'Early Excellence is not about people coming in to admire us,' she says. 'It is an attempt to break through professional isolation and the lack of support experienced by many workers in the early years.'

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