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School readiness gap is debated

    News
  • Wednesday, September 3, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The national chair of Early Education has voiced her support for the head of Ofsted over comments he made about the gap between children who are ready to start school and those who are less well-prepared. Early Education's Pat Wills, who is headteacher of Claremont Primary School in Blackpool, Lancashire, said, 'Look at the number of children living in poverty. In these families the most important considerations are feeding, housing and clothing the family, with education coming very low down in the list of priorities.'

School support staff and nursery nurses' pay body axed

    News
  • Thursday, October 28, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses and teaching assistants have lost the right to have their pay and conditions set nationally, after Education Secretary Michael Gove confirmed he was scrapping the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.

To the Point - Squashing them in

    Opinion
  • Friday, December 7, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Policymakers may need reminding that actions speak louder than words. The focus of the foundation years is on child development, proclaimed the Government in its document, 'Supporting Families in the Foundation Years'.

Letters

    Opinion
  • Friday, December 7, 2012
    • | Nursery World
STAR LETTER - DON'T TRUST THE INTERNET

The teddybear slippers

    News
  • Wednesday, September 3, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - The teddybear slippers of a young road traffic victim were among 70 other pairs of footwear belonging to pedestrians and motorists who have been killed on London's roads in the past three months. A spokeswoman for Transport for London, which staged the public display, said it was designed to make people think and be more careful. She added, 'If there was a plane crash every three months that killed 70 people, there would be a lot more notice taken.' Photo by Richard Pohle

Childminders cheer privacy on internet

    News
  • Wednesday, January 14, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Childminders in England have warmly welcomed Ofsted's decision to keep their personal details private by putting only their registration number and postcode with their inspection reports on its website. Ofsted said on Tuesday that the move would 'ensure the confidentiality and security of childminders and minded children' and that it would not begin putting these details on its website until April 2005 at the start of its next childcare inspection programme.

Rani Singh

    News
  • Wednesday, September 3, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Former 'EastEnders' actress Rani Singh uses her puppets to tell stories from south Asia to Ravi Vera Jacques, aged four, and other children at the Heath Library in Keats Grove in Hampstead, London. The storytelling session was to promote the Reading Maze, the national reading challenge being held in public libraries. For details of the initiative, visit the website www.readingmaze.org.uk.

Funding - Income areas

    Features
  • Monday, April 2, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Caroline Voogd uses the prime and specific areas of the EYFS to find extra sources of income for settings

Lunches packed with junk food

    News
  • Wednesday, September 3, 2003
    • | Nursery World
* Nine out of ten schoolchildren's packed lunches are too high in saturated fat, salt and sugar, says the Food Standards Agency. Its survey of 556 home-packed lunches for children in 24 primary schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland found that children were getting up to twice the recommended amount of sugar, almost half of the daily recommended salt intake and high levels of saturated fats at lunchtime. The most popular items were a white bread sandwich in 87 per cent of packed lunches, followed by crisps (71 per cent), and a biscuit or chocolate bar (60 per cent). Just under half (48 per cent) had dairy items such as yoghurts or fromage frais (48 per cent), while fewer than half contained a portion of fruit.

Britain's Best family Friend

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A quest to find Britain's Best Family Friend has been launched by the National Family and Parenting Institute. Nominations are invited for someone who has gone the extra mile to provide support to the nominee's family. Voting forms must be received by 26 February and are available from 08709 008 650 or www.bbff.org.

Alnwick Castle in Northumberland

    News
  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - A fantasy treehouse for children opened its doors at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland last week. The 3.3m construction reaches 60ft high and is accessed by suspended walkways hanging 40ft above the forest floor. The house has full disabled access and two resource rooms where children can learn about nature. For details visit www.alnwickgarden.com or call 01665 511 350.

In on the act

    News
  • Wednesday, September 3, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners can make emotional security and social co-operation a matter of routine in their daily work with babies and toddlers, writes Jennie Lindon The emotional wellbeing of babies and toddlers depends on feeling that they are noticed and appreciated as individuals. Caring adults help very young children to feel emotionally secure and actively engaged through two broad kinds of routine:

Making a better offer

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 24, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Tracy Brabin, the newly appointed shadow early years minister and MP for Batley and Spen, says it's clear change is needed in the sector

Enabling Environments: Collections - Bake off!

    Features
  • Monday, July 24, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Cooking with children is a great way to educate them about the science of food, finds Nicole Weinstein in the latest in her series on supporting and resourcing learning for ‘Understanding the World’

Building laws to stop child burns

    News
  • Wednesday, January 14, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Child safety organisations have endorsed Government proposals to reduce the number of injuries from scalding water. The Government said last week that, following campaigning by the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT), it was proposing bringing water temperature safety within the scope of building regulations in England and Wales. This would ensure that thermostatic mixing valves were fixed to bath taps to control the temperature of water coming out of showers and hot taps to baths and basins in all new or converted private housing by 2006.

Childbase opens 40th site

    News
  • Tuesday, March 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Minister for Children and Families Tim Loughton officially opened the new Greengables nursery in Sandhurst, Buckinghamshire, the 40th setting in the Childbase chain.

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