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Catch of the day

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Nathan Ashworth, age three, shows off the catch of the day at Busy Bees Preston Hospital nursery, after a visit from nutritionist Ady Delaney, the founder of Eat Right UK.

Supersize it!

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  • Wednesday, May 11, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Bring art to life with a child-sized collage on which the whole group can collaborate, and perhaps even join in the picture. Miranda Walker shows how traditional collages, where children stick items to a background of paper or card, are a popular way of introducing a range of tactile materials into children's artwork. These pictures can be kept for posterity. But how about ringing the changes occasionally? There's no need to settle for small scale when you make a loose-leaf collage - in fact, the bigger the better!

Opponents slam phonics plans

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  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Early years experts have criticised the Government's move to publish a list of approved phonics schemes. The DfES is planning to introduce a quality assurance scheme to evaluate commercial and other phonics programmes and ensure that they meet minimum standards (News, 26 October 2006).

19m to support adopted children

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  • Wednesday, September 11, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Play and music therapy will form part of a package of support to help adopted children bond with their families.

Jet setters

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  • Wednesday, May 15, 2002
    • | Nursery World
While the families of children in your care plan their holidays, says Emma Haughton, you can make them aware of possible hazards and help them to travel safely Couples with young children tend to have bigger incomes than they used to. They will probably have delayed having a family until their late twenties or early thirties and they may both work. At the same time the cost of holidays, particularly abroad, has fallen over the past 30 years. Result? More young children are being taken to exotic locations by their parents.

Childminding networks

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  • Wednesday, May 4, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Childminding networks help motivate and retain high-quality registered childminders, according to a study carried out by the National Children's Bureau for the National Childminding Association. Researchers looked at almost 50 NCMAChildren Come First (CCF) approved networks. It found that more than half of childminders on a CCF network hold a level 3 qualification or above, compared with just 20 per cent of childminders who are not part of a network. The report, Children Come First: the role of approved childminding networks in changing practice, is available on www.ncma.org.uk.

Extra time

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  • Wednesday, July 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The latest childcare gap to be identified is among parents working unsocial hours - but they have to know that care is available before they will seek it. Simon Vevers investigates. While the Government urges employers to introduce 'family-friendly'

Award to Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantristant

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  • Wednesday, July 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
An international award for services to parents and babies has been made to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantristant. Welsh health minister Jane Hutt presented staff at the hospital with the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative Award in recognition of the role played by midwives in providing breastfeeding advice. In May, the Welsh Assembly appointed a breastfeeding co-ordinator to improve rates of breastfeeding by working with health professionals and voluntary groups to support mothers. The daycare setting's name, address and inspection report will be published on the Ofsted website. But if the provider has a good reason for wanting the name, address and report withheld, such as being based on a military site or in a women's refuge, Ofsted will consider doing so.

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