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Looking good

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  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The purpose and the possible uses of the new guidelines for practitioners working with under-threes are explained by Professor Lesley Abbott In 2001, I was asked by the Government to develop a framework of effective practice to support staff working with children aged under three. This was to be done in conjunction with my early years and childhood studies team at Manchester Metropolitan University. The outcome of this work, which was funded by the new Sure Start, Early Years and Childcare unit at the Department for Education and Skills, led by Baroness Catherine Ashton, was launched last month as a pack called Birth to Three Matters. This pack should be distributed to about 300,000 settings, including day nurseries, registered childminders and Sure Start programmes before Christmas. All Ofsted inspectors at the Early Years Directorate and Early Years Development and Childcare Partnerships should also receive it.

For an arty party

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  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Two of the biggest headaches for anyone holding a children's party - how to keep the kids busy and what to give them to take home with them - could be solved in one go thanks to a new business called Party Creations. It will supply all the makings for a craft activity in which children aged from four to eight can decorate their own treasure box, clock, photo frame, flower pot or apron. Founder Polly Freeman points out that children can also give their creations as family presents, and any leftover materials can be kept for rainy day activities. Pack prices range from 6 to 10 each for small or individual orders and 4 to 8 in bulk. Ring Party Creations on 020 7738 8495.

Moving on

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  • Wednesday, March 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
High staff turnover has been blamed on poor pay and conditions, but bad management is just as likely to make staff quit, say researchers from the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Staff retention is recognised as critical to the expansion of the childcare sector, and poor pay and conditions have long been cited as the main reasons why nursery workers quit their jobs. But now dissatisfaction with management has emerged as one of the issues which causes some nursery staff to move on.

New consultation with parents and sector over ratios

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  • Monday, November 4, 2013
    • | Nursery World
The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting with the early years sector and parents on staff:child ratios, in a renewed drive to encourage providers to move to a 1:13 ratio for three- and four-year-olds.

Where can we go?

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  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I work in a pre-school that uses church premises. We have to set up play equipment each morning and put everything away again at the end of the session. We have to be out of the premises by a certain time, giving us no time to talk to parents. I have recently attended a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator training course and I do not know where I am going to be able to hold meetings with parents about their children's special needs, which is a very delicate issue. If there are to be free places for all three- and four-year-olds by 2004 as the Government is intending, this issue will have to be addressed.

Quote of the week

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  • Wednesday, February 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Sometimes the only way you can tell who's who in a class is that the teacher is standing, and the teaching assistant is sitting down. And children don't know, either' Roger Hancock of the Open University, who has studied the role of teaching assistants in schools, The Independent

Children as young as four are being permanently excluded from school

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  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children as young as four are are being permanently excluded from school in England, Government data for the year 2000-01 has revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics, 13 four-year-olds - 12 boys and one girl - were permanently removed from their schools, as were 52 five-year-olds - 49 boys and three girls. By the age of six, 95 boys and eight girls were permanently excluded from school. The number of permanent exclusions overall, at just over 9,100 - 80 per cent of them from secondary schools - is the highest since 1998-99.

Neighbourhood sites win funding

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  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Grants of nearly 250,000 have been awarded to build or renovate six day nurseries in England to boost the Government's Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative. The New Opportunities Fund's (NOF) Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme last week awarded more than 234,000 to fund the building of three new nurseries and the development of a further three. NOF chair Baroness Jill Pitkeathley said, 'These are exciting new projects and this funding will enable them to begin closing the gaps in childcare provision, particularly in disadvantaged areas.'

Nursery chain aiming to brighten up image

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  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The UK's sixth biggest nursery chain, Princess Christian Nurseries, is seeking to re-brand itself as 'bright, fun and friendly' with a new logo. The group, owned by the private education provider Nord Anglia, doubled in size when Nord Anglia bought the Milton Keynes-based Bright Horizons group last July. All 20 nurseries are now being re-branded.

Splish, splosh!

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  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
When it comes to finding a material that will appeal to all babies and toddlers, water has natural advantages, says When the rain came back this autumn, I was outside trying to negotiate the dips in the pavement without getting my feet wet when I saw a toddler with his father just ahead of me. The young boy was fully kitted out in brightly coloured wellingtons, mackintosh and rain hat. He was positively bouncing with joy. He went into the shallow puddles with feet full down, and then experimented by going in on tippy-toe. With a short run-up, the toddler went for the more exciting dips with both feet together. His father was patient and they worked their way along the street, splashing as they went.

Top ten dionsaur books

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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Tom and The Island of Dinosaurs by Ian Beck (Corgi Children's Books) * Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus by Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees (Orchard Books)

Planning a dance session

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  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A planned dance session should have distinct phases that are appropriate to the children's stage of development. When planning such a session, practitioners will need to take account of factors such as the children's range of ages, abilities, interests, concentration span and physical strength. Introduction

Software review: Fetch the Vet

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  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The 'Fetch the Vet' CD-Rom complements the ITV children's series. Set in Tom Fetch's surgery, it incorporates favourite video clips and uses seven interactive activities for three-to six-year-olds. However, the CD-Rom requires over 50MB of hard disc space and an up-to-date machine (Pentium II or equivalent) that can cope with the video clips incorporated into the games. Installing the software is not straightforward, since additional video drivers need to be loaded.

More protest groups set up to fight NEG code

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  • Tuesday, May 15, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The campaign group started by nursery providers in Kent is growing, with branches of the PVI Providers Association now in a number of other areas. The Kent group has received e-mails and calls from nurseries throughout the country keen to join the movement against the Government's rules for nursery education funding for three-and-four-year-olds.

Don't overlook us

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  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I have worked as an NNEB in a special school for more than 20 years. Again and again our training is not recognised. The excerpt from the speech by Charles Clarke, the new education and skills secretary mentions every member of staff apart from - yes, you've guessed it, the seemingly invisible nursery nurse. Even my own headteacher will speak about his school staff as teachers and classroom assistants.

Safe conduct

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The death of a baby after an allergic reaction has set alarm bells ringing in nurseries about how they care for children with allergies, or even accept them. Ruth Thomson reports On 11 April last year radiographer Wendy Egan dropped off her five-month-old son Thomas at his nursery. Two hours later he was dead, his death caused in part by an acute allergic reaction. Now childcarers around the country are seeking to learn from the case and take steps to ensure that such a tragedy can never be repeated.

Centre stage

    News
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A state-of-the-art centre in a severely deprived area needs no arguments to justify its presence at the heart of the community. Simon Vevers found out why Since it opened two years ago, the Integrated Children's Centre (ICC) in Merthyr Tydfil has become not just a hub for the local community, but also the main element in the Welsh council's drive to combat social exclusion.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'I feel sorry for Michael Jackson's kids in some respects, but considerably less sorry than I felt for the toddler I recently saw being thumped by his mother for the crime of wanting some of her crisps' TV reviewer Kathryn Flett, The Observer

Security slip on vouchers

    News
  • Tuesday, February 17, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Busy Bees' childcare voucher website was taken down last week after a parent exposed a glitch in the system which could reveal customers' bank details.

Top marks for Hawk Training

    News
  • Friday, November 15, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Apprenticeship provider Hawk Training has been graded outstanding by Ofsted, following a period of sustained investment in its staff and resources.

Keep up NNI funding, say researchers

    News
  • Tuesday, April 3, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Neighbourhood Nurseries supporting families in the most disadvantaged areas should have their funding extended to ensure their sustainability, a new report recommends.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Any study that finds negative effects for children in daycare is going to be greeted by hysteria on several fronts. The results will be brandished by organisations and individuals, mostly on the political right, seeking ammunition for keeping mothers in the home. Those involved in early years and childcare will, on the whole, be equally vehement about the worth of good- quality childcare. So the latest findings from the American Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (see News, page 4) will cause controversy, especially as the research team includes Professor Jay Belsky of Birkbeck University, whose outspokenness on this issue has raised many hackles in recent years, even among his own colleagues. As Professor Belsky is keen to point out, however, he is only reporting the results. In this case, he is 'truly sorry to say' that the more time children spent in daycare, the more aggressive and disobedient they were rated by teachers - and the quality of care had no mitigating effect.

Wales targets child poverty

    News
  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Five leading children's charities are urging candidates in the Welsh Assembly elections in May to back a 20-point children's manifesto that has fighting child poverty as its top priority. With the backing of the umbrella organisation Children in Wales, the charities Save the Children, NSPCC, Barnardo's Cymru and NCH have launched a 'coalition of concern' with the help of health minister Jane Hutt.

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