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Budding golfers at Silks Farm Nursery in Somersham, Cambridgeshire

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  • Wednesday, October 25, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Budding golfers at Silks Farm Nursery in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, received lessons from professional player Scott Waterman at the opening of a nine-hole mini golf course at the nursery. The golf course, which sports obstacles including giant dice and enormous toadstools, is intended to support the development of children's hand-eye co-ordination and gross motor skills. Photo Roy Kilcullen Photography

The big picture: Then and now

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  • Monday, April 7, 2014
    • | Nursery World
England's oldest open-air nursery, Rachel McMillan Nursery School and Children's Centre in Deptford, celebrates its centenary this year.

Sector fears LEAs will redirect cash

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  • Wednesday, November 3, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Plans to develop children's centres could be hampered by a lack of clarity over whether the funding for them will be protected. The Chancellor said in his spending review speech in July that an extra 100m would be made available to create 2,500 children's centres by 2008.

Safety drive to cut burns in children

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A major safety campaign is aiming to reduce the alarming number of burns injuries to children. More than 3,500 children under the age of five are admitted to hospital in the UK as a result of being burned or scalded each year, Government figures show.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
This four-part project covers all six areas of learning, indicated by: Personal, social and emotional development

Tell MPs what we think of two-faced policies

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Perhaps we should all stop waving our qualifications about on the pages of Nursery World and wake up and smell the coffee. And a very bitter brew it is. Despite the powerful 'Stop the Drop' campaign, the Government has ignored the needs of young children and the views of families and practitioners, and will legislate for lower standards in daycare (News, 15 March). It is not surprising that the decision to stay with NVQ 3 for persons-in-charge, managers, supervisors and deputies, and NVQ 2 for 50 per cent of other staff, has been released quietly. Such shameful lack of ambition and vision is nothing to be proud of. It only betrays vulnerable children and families.

Parents are embracing the hardline tactics advocated by TV parenting programmes

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Parents are embracing the hardline tactics advocated by TV parenting programmes such as 'Supernanny', according to a survey by parenting website Raisingkids.co.uk. It said that 73 per cent of respondents agreed that good behaviour was more important than making children feel good about themselves and 76 per cent were unafraid to discipline their children in public.

Becoming a childminder: Home from home

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  • Tuesday, March 20, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Government says that childminders are key to the success of its National Childcare Strategy, but just how easy is it to start up? Patricia Slatcher reports

Walking Bus

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  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
More children may soon bemaking their way to school in a Walking Bus as part of new Government measures that aim to develop safer, healthier and more environmentally friendly ways to travel to school. The Walking Bus scheme, where pupils are collected from an agreed location, and then walk to school together escorted by volunteers, is just one of the innovative ideas targeted at tackling traffic congestion and cutting pollution in the draft School Transport Bill, which was published for consultation in March 2004. For more information see the website www.teachernet.gov.uk/sdtravel.

'Make play priority for all departments'

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Government departments must 'take up their responsibilities' and give a greater priority to children's play in their policy areas, the organisation that represents play provision in England declared last week. Speaking at a conference to mark the official launch of Play England, Adrian Voce, director of the Children's Play Council and Play England, said that there had been a 'remarkable increase' in the profile of play provision and play space in the last two years, with 'all the main parties'

2m centre will support autism

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  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The first phase of a 2m redevelopment project to create a regional centre of excellence for children with severe autism was launched in Wales last week. Ysgol Plas Brondyffryn, a specialist community school in Denbigh, north Wales, has been providing care and education for autistic children and young people aged between three and 19 years for more than 30 years.

Childcarers slate 'biased' survey

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations have branded a survey into childcare 'biased' and 'irresponsible', for claiming that one-third of working mothers were unhappy with their child's nursery care. The Childcare Survey of Great Britain questioned 2,000 working mothers. Its findings include that parents' 'ideal form of childcare' would be 'a well-trained nanny'.

On course

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  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
18 October Reaching out to children with special needs in a mainstream setting Workshop on recognising the diversity of special needs and ways to promote awareness and inclusion for all children in the group.

Keep in touch

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  • Wednesday, September 29, 2004
    • | Nursery World
In the first our new good practice series by the DfES team of Foundation Stage regional directors, Lesley Staggs looks at how they define the key elements of effective practice The first task my team and I were given was to identify and agree with the early years sector what were the core competencies needed by early years practitioners to deliver the Foundation Stage. We think we've done this, but now want your views.

TV chef Ainsley Harriott opens new nursery for Happy Times group in Fulham, London

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  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
TV chef Ainsley Harriott opened a new nursery for the Happy Times group in Fulham, London, at the end of February. Following four years of development and an investment of 4.5m, the nursery provides a unique physical environment with dynamic lighting and colour therapy. There are 170 places for children aged from three months to five years.

Whatever the weather

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  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Everyone talks about the weather but you can help the children do something about it. Kymm Strelley explains how she did While studying for my Diploma in Nursery Nursing, I designed and made a weather board as part of my coursework. The end result was a real hit with both the teacher and children and was used daily at my placement school.

Making Literacy Real

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  • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Making Literacy Real: Theories and practices for learning and teaching. By Joanne Larson and Jackie Marsh. (Sage, 19.99, 020 7324 8500, 1 4129 0331 9) Reviewed by Marian Whitehead, language and early years consultant

Round the corner

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  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Sight and sound are the names of the game for children exploring their environment in more activities from Jean Evans and Dianne Irving Activity 1

Blue skies ahead

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  • Wednesday, March 14, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Are you ready to offer your staff a pension? Mary Evans looks to the future near and far as the new stakeholder pension scheme comes in Next month sees a revolution in the way thousands of childcare workers will be able to plan and save for their retirement, with the launch of the Government's stakeholder pensions scheme.

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