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Nursery Management: Nutrition - Tap into good food guidelines

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

| Nursery World

In the absence of governmental criteria for nursery meals, Mary Whiting recommends checking out the Caroline Walker Trust, which has a wealth of good advice and resources on eating well for under-fives.

Nursery Management: Play Surfaces - On the level

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

| Nursery World

Children's experience of the outdoor environment can be enhanced through an imaginative use of ground surfaces and materials, reports Sue Learner.

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... social networking

Features

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

| Nursery World

The casual use of electronic media poses some sensitive challenges for early years settings. Annette Rawstrone spoke to nursery managers. Illustration by Claire Nichols.

Studying Early Childhood: Part 1 - Becoming an active learner

Features

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

| Nursery World

When making the transition to studying at degree level, students will be challenged to think in new and unaccustomed ways, with different study practices than they have used before.

Positive Relationships: Engaging childminders - Vital links

Features

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

| Nursery World

Close interaction between children's centres and childminders enhances both kinds of provider - and parent choice too, says Annette Rawstrone.

Work Matters: Management Focus - C4EO makes data more accessible

Features

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Research data is at your fingertips with a new e-learning tool for children's and young people's services. Karen Faux logs in.

A Unique Child: Early Intervention - One for all

Features

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

| Nursery World

One city's effort to show that a little money spent now on troubled families saves a lot more in the future is explained by Laura Marcus.

NW writer to be UK's forum rep

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

| Nursery World

Laura Henry, Nursery World contributor and managing director of training and business support company the Childcare Consultancy, has been appointed the UK's national representative for the World Forum Foundation on Early Care and Education.

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Mobile phones

Features

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Should staff, and parents, be forbidden to use mobile phones at nursery so the children get their full attention? Melanie Defries asks settings about their policies and practice.

Ofsted calls for nurseries to put in more effort with self-evaluation

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

Nurseries must work harder to achieve rigorous self-evaluation under Ofsted's current inspection regime, members of the National Day Nurseries Association were told at their annual conference last week.

New guidance covers risks in outdoor play

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

| Nursery World

New guidance on outdoor play aims to dispel some popular myths about health and safety and risk.

Settings share green ideas

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

A new book by the Pre-School Learning Alliance aims to make it easier for nurseries and early years settings to go green and foster an understanding of environmental awareness and climate change.

Positive relationships: Social networking - A fine line

Features

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

| Nursery World

Social networking sites - personal or professional? Jennie Lindon gives advice on establishing boundaries when communicating on the web.

In my view - Tiny brains under stress

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

| Nursery World

Penelope Leach writes: My latest book, The Essential First Year, aims to empower parents to make decisions about their babies based on information rather than on hearsay, tradition or fashion. Within it, the topic that has attracted more attention than any other is 'controlled crying'.

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... smoking

Features

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

| Nursery World

The risks to young children from cigarette smoke are well documented, but how should nurseries treat the smokers on the staff? Melanie Defries hears their views.

EYFS Training Part 4 - Planning and Assessment

Features

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

| Nursery World

Good practice in observation, planning and assessment can always be improved, with the right training, says Mary Evans.

Principles drafted for children's centre outreach services

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| Nursery World

Every children's centre outreach service could soon have to comply with a set of core principles and standards, under draft plans by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - painted babies

Features

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

| Nursery World

What do babies gain from being covered in paint? Saffia Farr gives her views as a practitioner and a parent, in the first of her new monthly columns.

EYFS Training Part 3: Observation - Understand what you are seeing

Features

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

| Nursery World

It's not enough to just watch and record what a child does at play. Mary Evans considers how to make observation true to its purpose.

Early Years Foundation Stage - Time to build on its strengths

Features

Friday, February 19, 2010

| Nursery World

Ahead of a much-anticipated review of the EYFS this year, many nursery heads have firm views on which aspects of the framework need to be improved, writes Melanie Defries.

Nursery Management: Premises - Built to last

Features

Friday, February 19, 2010

| Nursery World

From grand-scale projects to more modest makeovers, nursery architecture is at the cutting edge of building design, combining functionality with aesthetics and eco-friendliness.

Ofsted inspection ratings at high levels since EYFS in place

News

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

A breakdown of early years inspection outcomes since the implementation of the EYFS shows that more than two-thirds of nurseries and childminders are working at a good or outstanding level.

EYFS best practice

News

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

| Nursery World

The charity 4Children is looking for providers and settings delivering the EYFS to share their best practice at a set of regional seminars across the country from 26 February to the end of March.

Work matters: Continuing Professional Development - OU enhances understanding

Features

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

| Nursery World

A distance learning course examining children's learning could interest graduates, says Karen Faux.

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - fussy eating

Features

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

| Nursery World

Fussy eating is a family affair, says Sian Nisbett, director of Dizzy Ducks Day Nursery, which owns three nurseries in Essex.

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Nursery Management: Nutrition - Tap into good food guidelines

Nursery Management: Play Surfaces - On the level

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... social networking

Studying Early Childhood: Part 1 - Becoming an active learner

Positive Relationships: Engaging childminders - Vital links

Work Matters: Management Focus - C4EO makes data more accessible

A Unique Child: Early Intervention - One for all

NW writer to be UK's forum rep

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... Mobile phones

Ofsted calls for nurseries to put in more effort with self-evaluation

New guidance covers risks in outdoor play

Settings share green ideas

Positive relationships: Social networking - A fine line

In my view - Tiny brains under stress

Positive Relationships: Let's talk about ... smoking

EYFS Training Part 4 - Planning and Assessment

Principles drafted for children's centre outreach services

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - painted babies

EYFS Training Part 3: Observation - Understand what you are seeing

Early Years Foundation Stage - Time to build on its strengths

Nursery Management: Premises - Built to last

Ofsted inspection ratings at high levels since EYFS in place

EYFS best practice

Work matters: Continuing Professional Development - OU enhances understanding

Positive Relationships: All in a day's work - fussy eating

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