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It's an honour to help children

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  • Wednesday, January 17, 2007
    • | Nursery World
By Dame Mary Marsh, NSPCC director and chief executive To be awarded a DBE in the New Year's Honours List is very special for me and my family. My parents sent me to a nursery school when I was three years old. They would have been delighted to know I was made a Dame 57 years later.

Unison's priorities set for early years

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  • Wednesday, February 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Public services union Unison has set out two key goals for the early years in its education manifesto, launched at a parliamentary reception in Westminster last week. The manifesto, which includes Unison's policy priorities for all education staff from early years to university, calls for recognition that nursery education is key to providing equal opportunities for all children and tackling social exclusion, and for access to high-quality, affordable childcare for all children that is provided by properly trained and fairly paid staff.

Guitarist Marc Reynolds leads a singalong at the Bexley Centre

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Guitarist Marc Reynolds leads a singalong at the Bexley Centre for Music and Dance in Sidcup, Kent, which holds Saturday afternoon music sessions for children who have special needs. Run by music therapist and teacher Caroline McGonigle, the fun sessions aim to help build children's self-confidence. For information about the sessions, contact Jenny Breen on 020 8302 1456. Photo Michael Melia

Help from GOSH

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A website called Smallfolk.com has been launched for parents and carers of preschool children in partnership with Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in London. It offers on-line access to expert advice and guidance on education, health, psychology and psychiatry to anyone looking after under-fives. There is also practical information on finding local nurseries and child-friendly places of interest and access to forums where people can meet to discuss appropriate issues. The website helps raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital's charity by selling baby products and equipment, including clothes, books and CDs and donating 5p to the charity for every 1 spent. Check the website out for yourself at www.Smallfolk.com or www.Smallfolk.co.uk

Sleep easy

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  • Wednesday, January 17, 2007
    • | Nursery World
One nanny made moonlighting pay off as a baby sleep consultant. Helen Kewley reports While there are still good jobs in cities and for the unattached, 'willing to travel anywhere' candidate, many experienced nannies are finding it difficult to get the work they want if they live in more rural areas or if they need to fit work around their family responsibilities. I am always pleased to meet childcarers who have come up with ways to adapt their skills to achieve a viable job and a balanced lifestyle.

Friendly fabrics

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Grahame Gardner Ltd, the number one specialist manufacturer of bespoke medical uniforms, believes that 'friendly design' can influence children positively and with this in mind has designed four new fabrics. James Greenlees, sales director, explains: 'Our brief was to design a fabric which could make children feel more comfortable, whatever the environment. We believe these fabrics could have a positive effect on children in the classroom, or for younger pupils in nurseries. Hopefully, we will be assisting teachers and nursery workers in their day-to-day tasks.' The fabric comes in a choice of four designs: playtime white, playtime jade, doctors and nurses and animals and is suitable for curtains, tablecloths or specific garments for staff and children. Priced 7.97 per square metre. Telephone 0116 255 6326

Delegates told of their vital role in ending racism

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Early years workers have a vital role in the fight to end race hate, delegates were told at a conference in London last week. Gurbux Singh, chair of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), addressed early years workers at the 'Tackling Race Hate' conference organised by the Early Years Trainers Anti Racist Network (EYTARN). The conference, which will be repeated in Leeds on 1 May, investigated the role of early years providers and how they can access national and local initiatives to help build antiracist communities, as well as how to acknowledge incidents of abuse and aggression and to respond with children and colleagues.

Look, listen, smell, touch

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A new book from Nursery World on working with babies and the under-threes explains their development and suggests activities for encouraging it. Here we offer an extract from the book on how you can enhance the growth of their senses Looking and seeing

The Children's Workforce Development Council is inviting views from the childcare sector on its 2007/2008 business plan

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  • Wednesday, January 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The Children's Workforce Development Council is inviting views from the childcare sector on its 2007/2008 business plan. The business plan makes a number of recommendations regarding key priorities for the next three years, including a focus on recruitment in children's social care; taking forward workforce issues in the green paper on looked-after children; supporting the development of the youth workforce; and leading on workforce reform. Comments can be made up until 19 February and a finalised business plan will be published at the end of March. The business plan can be seen at www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/ whatwedo/businessplan targets.htm.

By design

    Review
  • Monday, December 1, 2014
    • | Nursery World
An interactive guide for planning your nursery

Support TEEM

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  • Wednesday, January 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Teachers can read what their peers think about websites and software they've tested, as Jenny Benjamin reports According to its founders, TEEM (Teachers Evaluating Educational Multimedia) was 'a project born of frustration'. In common with teachers across the educational spectrum, ICT consultants Anne Sparrowhawk and Ysanne Heald and Professor of Education Angela Macfarlane, then of Homerton College Cambridge, had searched in vain for advice on multimedia and its use in the classroom. Their response was to set up TEEM, an Internet site where teachers could read objective software and website evaluations written by other teachers.

Children today are more responsible than adults would give them credit for

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  • Wednesday, June 28, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Children today are more responsible than adults would often give them credit for - that was the message from 4Children's national survey of 600 four- to 16-year-olds. Most opted to save their average Pounds 3.43 pocket money, and nine out of ten said that they ate healthily. They are technologically aware, with 26 per cent of four- to seven-year-olds having their own mobile phone. Most children found it easier to guess the price of an iPod than a pint of milk - they thought the milk costs 2.36.

Call for new rotavirus vaccine

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  • Thursday, December 13, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Experts have called for the introduction of a vaccine for young children to control a virus that causes diarrhoea and vomiting.

Nurseries counsel grieving families

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  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries in the area around Soham are helping children and parents deal with their grief and fears following the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and the massive publicity around the case. Cambridgeshire County Council is offering support to nurseries and schools in the area on how staff can best respond to children's questions and upset along with reassuring parents. The council has also set up a helpline.

Positive experiences

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  • Wednesday, October 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Continuing our series on preparing for Ofsted inspections, Laura Henry advises on how to help children to enjoy and achieve The third of the five outcomes by which Ofsted will inspect early years settings is 'Helping children to enjoy and achieve'. It is important that children enjoy experiences and activities so staff must plan for them to learn and develop in a stimulating environment.

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