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Striding ahead

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Bodily development in babies and toddlers is crucial to their mental growth, says Jennie Lindon The developmental state of newborn human babies is the result of a compromise. At full term, or close to 37/38 weeks, our babies are able to survive an independent life outside the womb. Their brains have already started to develop and are poised for an impressive rate of change over the next couple of years. However, if their brains were more developed, their heads would be larger and, as some books delicately say, 'normal birth would not be possible'.

Off the shelf

    Other
  • Monday, August 25, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Children from St Stephen's Church nursery in Rednal visited nearby Frankley Library.

Case study: helped over the bumps

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Lesley's daughter Olivia started to stammer when she was just over the age of two. Lesley recalls, 'I was expecting it, because my elder daughter had a stammer, and it runs in the family. I stammered myself, my father and grandfather stammered and I also had an aunt with a really bad stammer. My elder daughter had been helped by a speech and language therapist (SLT) who had been trained in the Lidcombe method, so I wanted the same help for Olivia. But by then, this SLT was no longer available.' Olivia would repeat the same syllable over and over - 'b-b-b-b-book,' and stretch out words -'Wwwwant a drink.' She had a phase of blinking, and another phase where she would take a loud intake of breath before each word. 'We saw a general SLT but this didn't help Olivia,' says Lesley. 'It took me six to nine months of fighting to get a referral to the Michael Palin Centre in central London. Initially we had a four-hour meeting for the whole family to talk about the background and decide on the therapy.Then Olivia started going once a week from January.

Goodbye country life

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Norland College, the last word in prestige nanny training, is admitting that nannies, like all girls, just want to have fun when they're not working. The college is to move from its 130-acre country house location at Denford Park near Hungerford, Berkshire, to a more urban location in Bath. Although the main reason for putting Denford Park on the market was the expense of maintaining a site that is larger than the college needs, the bursar Mike Dorward said, 'The bus service here is non-existent, the nearest cinema is 17 miles away and Hungerford is dead at night, so without a car students are stranded and there's not much for them to do.' He also admitted that today's 18-year-olds might not want to live in dormitory accommodation. The move to central Bath, pencilled in for January 2003, will bring students into reach of shops, nightlife, 'cultural facilities'

'Don't renege on early years'

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Government was given a stern warning not to backslide on its commitment to the early years during a lively House of Commons debate which reviewed many of the concerns explored in the education and skills select committee's recent report on the sector. Committee chairman Barry Sheerman MP opened the well-attended debate in Westminster Hall at the end of October by commenting that the 'word on the street' was that the Government was losing its interest in early years, having considered the job done and was moving on to post-11 education. He said there was a feeling that commitment to Sure Start, 'and to a great deal besides', had waned. The committee had been particularly concerned to hear about a slow-down in the roll-out of Sure Start, with the figures revealing a significant underspend.

Keep watch

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Observation of possible learning outcomes Activity: Behaving as a writer (home corner), Name, Date

Child poverty rises in affluent areas

    News
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Two million British children now live in families where no parent has a job, according to a new report which warns that poverty is growing in more affluent areas.

No expense

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Fitting out an imaginative role play area need not be expensive, so there's no excuse for a neglected corner with some naked dolls and a few tatty cups and saucers. * Use parents' and others' creative skills to design simple structures that suit your specific needs.

Spotlight on ... Chris Gregory

    Other
  • Monday, September 22, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Name: Chris Gregory Position: International Play Association correspondent and play development officer at charity The Children's Centre in the Isle of Man

It's show time!

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Science Year is in full swing and gets star billing at this year's London Under 12s Exhibition, back at the Business Design Centre from October 5 to 7. A series of free training workshops, run by the Association for Science Education (ASE) in conjunction with Science Year, will provide a wealth of ideas for the appliance of science in your classroom or nursery. Turn to pages 4-6 for activities to give you a taste of what will be on offer. The many exciting developments at this year's exhibition promise to make it the biggest and best yet. As well as taking the chance to see all the latest products and services on show from more than 190 suppliers, you can visit our special themed areas.

Early years experts meet to think global

    News
  • Wednesday, April 17, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners from around the world meeting at an international conference in New Zealand have explored what they could do to nurture and support children and families in turbulent times. The delegates at the World Forum on Early Care and Education in Auckland have come from more than 50 countries, including Iceland, Nepal and Namibia, bringing with them perspectives as diverse as their cultures. Being receptive and reassuring emerged as simple but effective ways that childcarers could support children at times of crisis, while delegates raised subjects ranging from domestic and media violence to the destructive impact of the poverty experienced in developing countries as a result of globalisation.

Speakers' corner

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Under 12s Exhibition features lively, informative and relevant seminars for workers in all sectors of childcare and education. Lindy Sharpe talks to four of them. Alison O'Brien

Speak up

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Children at Alan Pullinger Playgroup (pictured) are just some of those benefiting from Enfield local authority's storytelling project. The project was set up in response to the authority's baseline assessment scheme and feedback from early years practitioners, which showed a need to develop local children's speaking and listening skills.

Star Apple

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Retold by Mary Medlicott with thanks to storyteller Sally Tonge, who passed on the story To tell this story, you need a green apple with a bit of stem, a knife and a board on which to cut the apple. You could keep your props under cover until the appropriate moment. Or intrigue the children by putting the apple on display. (Best keep the knife out of sight.) Once there was a girl who said, 'I'm bored.'

In brief...A petition seeking to protect the Foundation Stage

    News
  • Wednesday, August 29, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A petition seeking to protect the Foundation Stage, with its clear emphasis on learning through play, from the more formal approach of the national literacy and numeracy strategies, has attracted several hundred signatures from all types of early years practitioners, as well as parents and school governors. Early years consultant Margaret Edgington, who launched the petition in June, expects to win more support early in the new school term. To find out more or back the petition, you can e-mail edgington@madasafish.com.

Term staff campaign grows

    News
  • Wednesday, August 29, 2001
    • | Nursery World
More term-time school support workers are lobbying their employers for holiday pay, strengthened by the recent victory of their counterparts in Northern Ireland. Up to 100 term-time workers in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, including education teaching assistants, behaviour support workers, welfare assistants and school secretaries, are campaigning to receive the same conditions as teachers and other support staff. The term-time workers are not paid during school holidays and although they used to be able to draw Jobseeker's Allowance during that time, the Government withdrew their entitlement in 1999.

Pay us living wage

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I wholeheartedly agree with the Daycare Trust report, Who will care? (News, 4 October). Childcare workers in day nurseries work the longest hours, for comparatively little pay. It is time we were all brought into line and paid a living wage, or there will be a staff crisis in the sector. Surely if the Government is so keen for the expansion of the early years sector and to give more parents access to childcare, ministers must realise that the sector needs a stronger infrastructure in the form of tax benefits, grants and/or direct support from the Government. After all, we are educating and moulding the most precious resource this country has - the next generation.

Paper chase: Early Years Directorate

    News
  • Tuesday, October 30, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The transfer of care inspections and registration to Ofsted has been steeped in chaos. Mary Evans talks to nurseries about their experiences

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