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Izzy's Island

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  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Have you got Tizzy's Toybox in your nursery? If you have, then you may be pleased to know that there is now a follow-up from Sherston Software - Izzy's Island (01666 843200, single user 45, multi-user licences available). Sail away with Izzy and friends to the island where anything can happen.

Childminders vote for more babies

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  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Childminders have voted to be allowed to care for more than one baby at a time. Delegates at the National Childminding Association's annual general meeting in Eastbourne last weekend voted overwhelmingly in support of a proposal that the national standards should be amended to allow childminders to care for more than one child under the age of one.

A big issue

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  • Wednesday, February 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Weight problems in young children are on the rise, but you can avoid them with our latest A-Z health guide by doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital health guide What is childhood obesity?

Back to basics

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  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
An investigation into work-based learning has uncovered a lack of key skills or study among nursery staff considered qualified at certain NVQ levels. Mary Evans reports The scale of the challenge to transform childcare into a graduate-led profession is underlined by a survey showing that early years advanced apprentices are scoring the worst success rates across the entire work-based learning sector.

On the table

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  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The most essential household utensils offer a surprising array of learning activities, as Jean Evans demonstrates A project focusing on the familiar and readily available resource of cutlery provides opportunities for developing children's understanding of the properties of materials and promoting their mathematical problem-solving skills.

Our responsibility to protect early learning

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  • Wednesday, March 28, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Eric Clark's prescient article on toy marketing (Special Report, 15 March) admirably continues the growing global movement against the crass commercialisation of childhood recently highlighted by the 'Compass' report. These pernicious trends are surely substantially responsible for the premature 'adultisation' of children and the profane degradation of childhood, which are blighting the current generation of children. Britain's shocking performance in the recent Unicef report of children's well-being is perhaps the most dramatic symptom of this modern malaise. Especially relevant to early childhood workers is Clark's informed challenge to the technologising of early learning. Early learning is far more effective and appropriate when experienced in real (not 'virtual') human relationships; and it is now clear from Dr Aric Sigman's recent research report that televisual technologies damage young children at many different levels u neurologically, socially, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We all have a grave responsibility, as parents, professionals and policy-makers, to inform ourselves about the profound harm that this poisonous materialistic culture is doing to young children, and to protect them from its most toxic excesses.

Analysis: Children who kill

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  • Tuesday, February 24, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Troubled child psychology and society's attitudes to malign behaviour are examined by Loretta Loach, author of a new book on young murderers.

The National Training Awards deadline

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The National Training Awards, organised by UK Skills, celebrate businesses, organisations and individuals who have achieved excellence and success through training and learning. The deadline for nominations this year is Thursday 26 April, and workshops and mentoring sessions will be taking place around the UK to help applicants with their entries. For details visit www.nationaltrainingawards.com.

Alan Bentley, chairman of the Childcare Corporation, pauses for a photocall at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2007
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Alan Bentley, chairman of the Childcare Corporation, pauses for a photocall at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, as part of a five-day fundraising climb for charity Worldvision. Nursery staff Katie Blackmore, Amanda Hide, Stephanie Bond and Hannah Vousden also took part in the sponsored climb, which has raised over 8,000 to date. The nursery chain is planning further fundraising events.

EYP Update launches online

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  • Tuesday, March 3, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Nursery World's regular section about Early Years Professional Status, sponsored by CWDC, is now online at www.nurseryworld.co. uk/eypupdate. Or, see page 29.

Round and round the garden

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  • Wednesday, November 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Heather Gillies, manager of Glasgow's Clutha Street Day Nursery, which has a racetrack at the centre of its award-winning garden A fairly large section of our outdoor area is given over to our under-twos and has at its centre a racetrack.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, November 27, 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.

Registration fees too steep, say agencies

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  • Tuesday, January 21, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nanny agencies in Scotland are joining forces to protest to the Scottish Executive about proposed charges for registration with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, which will see larger companies forced to pay more than 2,000.

Help all babies grow to term

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  • Wednesday, March 21, 2007
    • | Nursery World
By Jane Brewin, chief executive of Tommy's, the baby charity This month saw the launch of what Tommy's hopes will be one of our most influential campaigns to date - Stop Premature Births. Coincidentally, our campaign launched at the same time as Amillia Taylor, the most premature baby on record, safely went home after four months in intensive care, after her birth at only 22 weeks gestation. Sadly, many families with very premature babies will not be so fortunate.

Ask the expert

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  • Wednesday, July 27, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Educational therapist Andrea Clifford Poston answers your queries about child behaviour Q At a recent 'welcome afternoon' for pupils about to start at our primary school, I was concerned about a four-year-old (June birthday) who clung to her mother all afternoon. She has attended playgroup but her mother stays there with her.

Celebrating Diversity

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  • Wednesday, July 27, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Africa Black Africa is often on the TV, but the images are usually of famine, poverty and war. It is important to give young children some opportunity to see other aspects of the continent. Settings can celebrate Kwanzaa, the international festival of black culture - but, as this takes place at the end of the year, it may coincide with Christmas closure. African culture can also be celebrated at other times.

A further 2.4m is to be

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  • Wednesday, November 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A further 2.4m is to be spent on training for the childcare workforce, education minister Cathy Jamieson has revealed. 'To allow for further expansion and development of the early years workforce I am making available an additional 2.4m to local authorities from 2004 onwards. I can also announce that we have exceeded our target to train 5,000 new childcare workers by 2002. More than 6,000 qualifications have been awarded since 1999. Our goal is to have all those working in the sector holding a qualification, or working towards one.' Ms Jamieson was speaking at Men in Childcare's conference 'When Men Become Carers', where she stressed that children benefit if care settings are more representative of society and have men as care workers.

Call for midwives to be based in children's centres

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  • Tuesday, July 1, 2014
    • | Nursery World
The charity 4Children is calling for midwives and health visitors be based at children’s centres, after a poll revealed that a quarter of mothers-to-be found out information about pregnancy from a children’s centre.

A third of children in Scotland

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  • Wednesday, November 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A third of children in Scotland live in low-income households, according to a report published this week. Poverty in Scotland 2002 -People, places and policies, by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland, the Scottish Poverty Information Unit and the Open University, also shows that lone parents are twice as likely to be poor compared with those in couples. The report is available from CPAG, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF for 10.95 plus 2.95 p&p.

Scotland hears a host of stories

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  • Wednesday, November 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
With the help of a touch of magic, National Tell a Story Day introduced the joys of fairytales and fiction to children across Scotland last month. In Kirriemuir library in Angus, Mr Magic got listeners involved in the story of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (above). Children from nearby Northmuir, Southmuir and Glenisla nurseries were enthralled by the story and had plenty of chances to help with the tricks and join in by singing and chanting.

Give children choices

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  • Wednesday, July 27, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I have, over recent months and weeks, become increasingly alarmed at the number of times I hear the words 'choice for parents'. In general, these words seem to be linked to anything connected to the Government's ten-year strategy. While I am all in favour of high-quality services to offer choice to parents, I am more in favour of the development of choice for children and the recognition of their rights.

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