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Hot and cold

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  • Wednesday, May 19, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Let temperatures rise with a focus on winter and summer 1 Summer and winter

obesity: A weighty problem

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  • Tuesday, October 17, 2000
    • | Nursery World
Record childhood obesity levels are causing some schools and playgroups to think hard about the food messages they give children. Judith Napier reports

Finer feelings

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  • Wednesday, May 19, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Plan a range of collaborative activities that explore what is good and bad about being happy and sad By the age of three or four years old, most children have acquired an awareness of themselves as a separate personality from their peers and are beginning to be able to identify the similarities and differences in their likes and dislikes that connect them to and distinguish them from their friends. Practitioners can help children develop learning partnerships with each other.

Secret agents

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Set up a Spy Academy at your after-school club and the children won't want to go home, says Deborah Sharpe. Here she shows what popular games she uses to get the children on the trail of Sylvester Slime, Master Criminal of the underworld... 'stop. Password please.''Baked Beans.' 'Enter. Welcome to Spy Academy.'

Council campaigns to outlaw bullying

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
An innovative campaign aimed at tackling bullying in out-of-school hours has been launched across the London borough of Camden. 'Growing Up Safely in Camden' was drawn up by Camden's Children Fund after research commissioned in 2002 showed that 44 per cent of children aged five to 13 had been bullied in open spaces such as estates, parks or on routes to school in the previous six months.

Playschool in pictures

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  • Wednesday, August 17, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Playschool in pictures: children's photographs as a research method This study in an Icelandic playschool looked at the ways children think about their early childhood setting and set out to develop methods for listening to their perspectives. One group used digital cameras while they showed the researcher important places and things; the other group was given disposable cameras to use unsupervised. Einarsdottir, J. Early Child Development and Care 175(6): 523-541, August 2005. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

Working to tackle bullying

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Recent research by the NSPCC revealed that 49 per cent of children and young people are worried about being bullied and that young people were reluctant to talk to their parents about concerns such as bullying for fear of not being believed. Out-of-school provision is not exempt from the dangers of bullying, indeed the potential for bullying to occur can be greater in the less structured environment of the club than in the classroom.

A month in the life of Harry Tobias

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  • Wednesday, August 17, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Harry is very interested in naming items and in stating what is happening around him. He demonstrates a good range of single-word language, mostly nouns. Examples of his new words are 'stone, stick and ball'. His favourite action word is 'gone'. He loves the garden and is keen to use the broom, trying hard to sweep with it. He also enjoys holding the hosepipe to water the grass.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'Children, though they may still be wanted by so many, are suddenly out of their price range' Cristina Odone, on a survey that calculated that it costs parents 164,000 to bring up a child, the Observer

Off the peg

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A round-up of books, puzzles and other resources to help you get the most out of your project on clothes. Jigsaws & puzzles

Easy access

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  • Monday, May 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Some early years settings have found an open-door policy promotes an effective partnership with parents, says Judith Stevens

Children love their creches, but staff leave for more pay

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Playing and books are some of the things young children like best about going to a creche, a survey by Aberdeen City Council has discovered. As part of its city-wide creche service review, the council asked children aged between two and four to draw or write about how they felt when they came to their creche. Out of 37 children surveyed, 34 said they were happy, one felt 'sad'

Childcare workforce 'neglected for years'

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The UK's early years sector and workforce are affected by serious structural problems that are such a 'can of worms' that no British Government, including the present one, wants to confront the issues head-on, a leading early years academic has claimed. In the policy paper Beyond Caring, published last week by the Daycare Trust, Peter Moss, professor of Early Childhood Provision at the University of Lon- don's Institute of Education, argues that successive Governments have neglected the childcare workforce for decades, both in structure and conditions, and that as a result 'there has been little new thinking and no major reforms to produce a workforce for the 21st century'. The result of this, he says, is 'a mouldering can of worms, which no Government really wants to open'.

The number of children in funded pre-school education in Northern Ireland has almost doubled

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The number of children in funded pre-school education in Northern Ireland has almost doubled in the past five years, new statistics show. The school census released by the Department for Education for the year 2002-03 said that 21,076 children were in pre-school provision, with 14,092 in nursery schools or nursery classes in primary schools, 1,180 in reception classes and 5,804 in funded places in playgroups and day nurseries. This compares with 11,116 children in funded pre-school education in 1997-98. There has also been a significant increase in the number of children attending integrated primary and secondary schools, with 15,695 pupils in 2002-03 compared with 8,154 five years ago.

Switch on to ICT

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
An introduction to the keyboard As we approach the end of the summer term, many practitioners are beginning to focus on the computer keyboard. All computers have some form of bundled, basic word processor. Next comes the free processors you can download; the best of these is FreeText from Kudlian. This is similar in functionality to WordPad but also allows graphics to be imported and has a spell checker, large friendly tool bar and a word bank. Finally there are the purchased word processors such as Microsoft Word, Textease etc.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, November 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum

Obesity on TV

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Channel Four television is making a sensitive documentary series focusing on children struggling with their weight and would love to hear from parents with lively children. One in seven 15-year-olds and one in every 12 six-year-olds in the UK is now defined as obese. If current trends continue, 20 per cent of boys and 33 per cent of girls will be obese by 2020. An unprecedented number of toddlers are among those getting bigger in the UK and fewer are failing to lose their pre-school chubbiness.

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