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Just for you

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  • Tuesday, November 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World

The crucial thing about IEPs is that they remain positive, flexible and open to review, as Colette Drifte explains

Pardon me

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  • Wednesday, June 21, 2006
    • | Nursery World
How bare do you dare? Rachel Goodchild looks at what a nanny may see in the family Being the professional nanny she is, Sarah, who has worked with some of Hollywood's favourite celebrity parents, will not name names. But she will relate an incident that caused her a great deal of embarrassment.'I was working for an actor who was in town for a premiere. His co-star was staying on the floor above. Both actors had their families with them, and their girls were great friends. A call came down requesting that I take the daughter to play upstairs. So I did.'

Prize illustrators shortlisted

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  • Tuesday, September 21, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Children's illustrator Quentin Blake is on a shortlist of six for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, an annual award to recognise the funniest children's books, for his book Angelica Sprocket's Pockets.

Happitots Nursery in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow

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  • Wednesday, May 17, 2006
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children let fly with their home-made carp kites on Japanese Day at Happitots Nursery in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Children's Day, when flying kites and streamers from rooftops and flagpoles is a tradition, has been a national holiday in Japan since 1948. The Happitots chain of nurseries held a week of activities including creating Japanese displays, making collage fish pictures and eating Japanese food. Photo Peter Devlin

Services merge early years

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  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Early years services are to be amalgated by Highland Council in Scotland following a review that highlighted falling numbers of pre-school children, a consequent reduction in Government funding and a growing demand for wraparound care. Bill Alexander, the council's head of service for children, young people and families, said that the current cost of early years services has exceeded council resources. He predicted that if the number of under-fives continued to decline at a steady rate over the next decade, the level of grant could fall by up to 1.08m.

Don't do us down

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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I am a qualified nursery nurse and I feel strongly that our job in schools should not be downgraded to that of a classroom assistant. I worked hard to gain my qualification and have since gained further qualifications at my own expense and in my own time. I feel there is a place for teachers' aides in schools, but they should be employed as well as nursery nurses, not instead of. But I am aware of qualified nursery nurses who are working as teachers' aides as they are unable to get nursery nurse posts, due to the fact there is not enough money to pay for qualified staff.

Grounds for success

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  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The finalists in our competition to improve an early years outdoor area describe their plans to Laura Marcus Readers of Nursery World rose to meet the Outdoor Challenge, run with Learning Through Landscapes, once again this year.

PVI partnership guidelines 'need force'

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  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Private and voluntary childcare organisations have welcomed the Government's latest guidance on the planning and funding of extended schools, while warning that 'enforceable guidelines' are needed to avoid local variations in the way providers are treated. Children's minister Beverley Hughes has said that by 2010, every community will have access to a children's centre and many of these centres will be 'co-located with primary schools'.

New Dance Base National Centre for Dance in Edinburgh

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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Two year-old Mia Scott put her best foot forward at one of the classes for under-fives at the new Dance Base National Centre for Dance in Edinburgh. A spokeman said, 'This is a fun way of developing children's creativity, inspiring their physical development and promoting communication in a group.' Teachers are also taking the programme out into nurseries and creches. Photo: Paul Reid.

Long work hours and family life

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  • Wednesday, May 17, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Long work hours and family life: a cross-national study of employees' concerns. The issue of work-family conflict was researched in a sample of managers and professionals based in the US, London and Hong Kong offices of a global financial services firm. Hong Kong respondents were more likely to worry about family conflict. The authors argue that the meaning of family varies by national context; in Hong Kong there is an emphasis on the extended family as a robust institution with intense ties and obligations.

Community at Heart and Sure Start

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  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Bristol County Council is funding an innovative 'green' children's centre and primary school in partnership with Community at Heart and Sure Start. Construction is due to start in August on the 4m project, which will replace Barton Hill infant and primary schools and Cashmore Nursery.

New chief exec for troubled chain

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  • Wednesday, January 30, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A new chief executive with a background in running railways and motorway service areas has been appointed to Jigsaw Day Nurseries, the UK's third largest nursery group. Mike McKechnie, aged 39, was previously chief operating officer of Welcome Break and prior to that was customer operations director of GNER.

The full picture

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  • Wednesday, June 14, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The case for a holistic and coherent curriculum for children right up to school entry age is argued by Lesley Staggs, former national director of the Foundation Stage When I was interviewed for the post of National Director for the Foundation Stage some three years ago, I was asked to identify key issues in the early years. One of those issues was the tension felt by reception class teachers who, despite their inclusion in the Foundation Stage since September 2000, still often felt as if they were being pulled in different directions. This tension had several causes but a significant factor was that, unlike the rest of the Foundation Stage, the reception year was included in the literacy and numeracy frameworks.

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