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Five-year-old Georgina Davidson from St Mary's Primary School in Askham

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  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Five-year-old Georgina Davidson from St Mary's Primary School in Askham Richard, north Yorkshire, listens to her sick teddy bear's chest with help from York University medical student Aaron Brown. The school runs a special Teddy Bear Hospital to ease children's anxieties about health and improve the communication skills of trainee medical students. Children can help work out a diagnosis, apply bandages and write prescriptions for their teddies. Photo Steve Race/Guzelian

This June sees the first-ever National Childcare Month

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - This June sees the first-ever National Childcare Month, and early years minister Catherine Ashton (centre) went along to the EYDCP conference in London last week to tell everyone about it. Each week in the month-long event, supported by the Department for Education and Skills, will be devoted to a different sector and organised by a relevant organisation, with 3 to 9 June day nurseries week (contact the National Day Nurseries Association on 01484 541641), 15 to 22 June childminding week (National Childminding Association, 020 8464 61640), 17 to 23 June play week (Pre-School Learning Alliance, 020 7833 0991) and 24 to 30 June Kids' Clubs week (Kids' Clubs Network, 020 7512 2100). Other activities and events will be organised by the Daycare Trust (020 7840 3350). Photo: Len Cross

Let down all round

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  • Wednesday, August 15, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Further to the comments by Gill Haynes, the former chair of the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (CACHE) (In my view, 19 July), I agree with her that the qualifications of people who work with pre-school children is under-rated by the Government. How many people would put their children into a school class that had no qualified teacher or was run by a parent who thought they'd 'have a go' without any formal training? So why then should pre-school provision be any different?

University of the Highlands and Islands launches a new on-line degree in child and youth studies

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A new on-line degree in child and youth studies has been launched by the University of the Highlands and Islands. The early years component of the degree programme includes modules on child development and the acquisition of language, with optional courses on play and cognitive development. Students will study on-line and will also receive support from staff based at colleges at Moray, Inverness, Lews Castle, North Highland and Perth. Students will be able to go on to postgraduate courses in areas such as social work or teacher training. For details contact Jon Clarke, course leader, on 01738 877608.

A month in the life of Harry Tobias

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  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Harry's language has developed considerably this month. He repeats whatever he hears, much of it quite clearly. He names many items in his picture books and can point to many more if asked. He often mimics Jasmine, re-stating what she is doing for anyone listening. On one occasion when he knew it was teatime, he called 'Alan' up the stairs to let his daddy know. Harry enjoys looking at photographs, particularly when he is in them, referring to himself as 'you'.

Private nursery staff want to keep ratios

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Private day nurseries have shown overwhelming support for keeping or tightening up the ratio of one adult to eight children currently set out in the care standards for three- to five-year-olds in England. A study funded by the Department for Education and Skills sought to investigate the impact on quality of 'relaxing' staff:child ratios in daycare settings from the 1:8 set out in Children Act 1989 guidance to 1:13, the ratio applied to nursery schools and classes in the maintained sector.

Making connections

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  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Do children bring to nursery a knowledge of ICT that depends on their parents' income? Jackie Cosh looks at research that found some other surprising factors at work, with recommendations for nursery practice Children's experience of ICT in the home varies, but does it vary in response to the household income? This is something that Interplay, at the University of Stirling, decided to find out.

In brief...Cash boost for schools

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  • Wednesday, August 15, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Every school environment stands to benefit immediately from a 10m cash boost announced today (Thursday) by minister for education Jack McConnell. The money is the first stage of a new long-term strategic approach to improving Scotland's school environments. Mr McConnell said, 'Children in Scotland deserve to learn in a positive environment to allow them to reach their full potential. By providing extra money for books, equipment and minor repairs for every school across the country, we are taking another step towards ensuring that happens. I want to see equipment and maintenance of school buildings improved year on year.'

Sophee Redhead's defence team speaks out about her acquittal

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  • Monday, February 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Following the recent not guilty verdict on the nursery worker charged with manslaughter and health and safety offences, two solicitors explore the legal minefield surrounding prosecution of individuals for health and safety related incidents, which can result in long prison sentences if convicted. They query whether there are artificially higher expectations for nursery owners and employees when a child dies or is injured.

Activities for song, rhyme and talk

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Part of a parent's or carer's role is to make sure that activities are at the appropriate level for an individual child. Each baby or toddler will develop at their own rate, so be careful that they are not under-stimulated or over-challenged. Experimenting, exploring, creating and communicating through the activity is more important than expecting the children to achieve an end goal - for example, correctly ordering sequence pictures from a rhyme in Rhyme Time (see right). Song Box

Picture perfect

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Young children respond to art instinctively as a way to express themselves, and in experimenting with materials they discover how to give form to their ideas and feelings Painting and drawing are categorised under Creative Development within the Foundation Stage curriculum. The document Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage rightly states that creativity is fundamental to successful learning. Being creative enables children to make connections between one area of learning and another and so extend understanding.

A home from Home Office at city nursery

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  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Just Learning, the UK's third largest nursery chain, is fitting out a new 400,000 nursery next to the Home Office in Westminster. Home Office staff will be entitled to priority booking at the 70-place nursery and a 10 per cent reduction in fees. Remaining places will be offered to the general public.

Take flight

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Everybody got in on the act when a nursery school devised an imaginative project, described here by head Sue Chambers At Chertsey Nursery School, we decided to organise a special Design and Technology Fun Week as part of the whole-school project that we have each term. The aim of the week was to:

Editor's view

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government has been very keen to stress how important it is to listen to parents' views about smacking, and the results of various polls of the public are used to justify maintaining physical punishment of children as a legal option. But those on the receiving end - children themselves - are rarely asked for their opinions. So it is great to see that Save the Children Scotland has surveyed children (see News, page 4) and found them overwhelmingly against smacking. The children's thoughtful and heartfelt comments reveal just how distressing and confusing they find being hit by their parents.

Show us men some respect

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Michael Nolan, a nursery nurse in a Birmingham hospital's neonatal unit. I'm fed up with hearing presumptions about why the childcare sector has problems when it comes to employing male nursery nurses.

Checking the fees

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Your news story, 'Don't pay for police checks, carers told' (19 July) was right to point out that daycare providers in England and Wales do not have to register with the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) or pay for Disclosures. Ofsted will act as an umbrella body for the sector, and the Department for Education and Skills will meet Disclosure costs, at least initially. I am sorry that some daycare providers have been confused over this issue because of information we have sent them. This has happened because any organisation requesting information about using the CRB is entered in our database, and will automatically receive application forms inviting them to register to use the Disclosure service. The daycare providers that have received application forms recently will have at some time in the past contacted us independently for information.

Windfall for partnerships

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An advocacy service which will be available to all private and voluntary sector providers to help them work within their childcare partnerships is to be set up by the Scottish Independent Nurseries Association (SINA), thanks to an award of nearly 35,000 from the Scottish Executive. The award made to SINA to establish the Childcare Partnership Liaison Service was one of six to organisations working with children and young people announced last week by deputy education minister Nicol Stephen.

Co-ordinate named Charity Magazine of the Year

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The National Early Years Network's magazine, Co-ordinate, was named Charity Magazine of the Year at the 2001 Charity and Public Service Publishing Awards ceremony held in London last week. The reporting judge, Conrad Taylor, described the magazine as being 'informative, produced to a tight budget, engagingly written and designed with great subtlety'. He added, 'The typography is highly legible and delicately tuned - so much so that you hardly notice the artistry behind it.' The runner-up magazine was Inside Out, produced by the Council for World Mission.

In brief...Scottish Borders Council

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Scottish Borders Council has voted in support of a package of measures designed to shear 1.57m off the education budget in order to address a 2.8m overspend. At a meeting of the full council last week, two rural nursery classes, attached to primary schools in Westruther and Fountainhall, were saved from the axe, but it was decided that there will be less cash for implementing the childcare strategy, early intervention, classroom assistants and support for parents.

The record of needs system for children with special educational needs is to be scrapped

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The record of needs system for children with special educational needs is to be scrapped, minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson said last week. Ms Jamieson said that after 'numerous complaints' about the record of needs, it would be replaced by a new co-ordinated support plan which would also have statutory backing but would only come into play if a child's needs were found to be beyond their school's resources. Childcarers and other professionals will work together to identify children with special needs as early as possible, to ensure appropriate provision.

Children are only human

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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The letter from Emma MacDonald (18 November) about smacking typically demonstrates how little some people regard children within society. She suggests, 'parents are only human and make mistakes like everyone else'. But children are human too! They feel intimidated, feel pain, hold fears and have many more internalised experiences, just like you and me.

Parent support services: Right from the start

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  • Tuesday, August 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It is what happens at home that really affects the life chances of under-fives, but policy-makers have tended to consider this a private matter. Should it remain so? Anne Wiltsher looks at another way

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