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Earlier signs can help spot deadly disease

    News
  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Medical experts have identified three new early symptoms of meningitis in children that could speed up detection. Up to now, parents and carers have been advised to look for the 'textbook'

Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell sees Labour's respect agenda failing amid its confusion over child protection

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  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The Government got its comeuppance last week. When Tony Blair launched his Respect and Reform agenda, a hazy but heavy crusade against community crime, low life and, along the way, human rights, he could not have expected what happened. The first thing that happened was general derision for his notion of on-the-spot sanctions. This must have come as a shock after his years of trading on a populist airing of a reactionary law and order agenda. His populism, however, sought the restoration of traditional order, which did not and could not infuse a respect revolution in popular culture.

Social behavior and peer relationships of victims, bully-victims, and bullies in kindergarten

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  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
This Swiss research involved 345 children aged five to seven categorised as victims, bully-victims, bullies, and non-involved. It established distinct behaviour patterns for the three groups, some of which may be risk factors for being victimised or becoming a bully. Victimised children's lack of friends might render them psychologically and socially vulnerable, and thus more prone to becoming easy targets, while bullies seemed to be preferred playmates, particularly for other aggressive boys. Perren, S and Alsaker, F. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 47(1):45-57, Jan 2006. Abstract: www.blackwell-synergy.com

On course

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  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
2 February Forest schools - children learning in a woodland environment

Early Years Pioneers: Jean Piaget

    Features
  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
We owe much of our awareness of children's cognitive development to Jean Piaget, who encouraged learning through exploration, explains Professor Tricia David

At the sharp end

    News
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
What's behind all the fuss about MMR? Penny Vevers looks at the views of medical experts on both sides of the controversy Prime minister Tony Blair's refusal to disclose whether his son Leo had had the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination, on the grounds of family privacy, only served to fuel other parents' worries and incur media wrath. Suddenly, from an apparently isolated stance opposing MMR for its links suggested by research to bowel disease and autism, the vaccine's critics found their fears given more credence.

Free magazines

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I want to offer parts of my collection of Nursery World magazines free to any readers who feel they can give them a good home. I only ask for a refund of the postage after they have received them. Anyone interested can contact me by phone 020 8352 2481, e-mail at misrahi.intersect@cableinet.co.uk or write to me at the address below. Bernard Misrahi, 15 Gospatrick Road, London N17 7EH

Art collection

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Look closely at the art area in your setting to check that you are providing the essential resources children need, organised in a way that children can freely access them The pleasure and learning to be derived from an art area will be all the greater for children if the area is well organised and well resourced and they are allowed to work independently.

Let's dance

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Scottish Ballet is taking the magic of dance to the classroom in its workshops based on The Snowman, writes Joyce Reid Five-year-old Maxi Rafferty has seen the film The Snowman and she also has ballet lessons. But after her morning with the Scottish Ballet, learning some steps to the ballet version of the story, she says it is 'different'. 'I liked the wiggle best,' she adds.

In brief...Peter Housden

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Peter Housden has been appointed head of the Department for Education and Skills' schools directorate, which is responsible for the development and implementation of Government policy on the early years, childcare and schools in England. Mr Housden, 50, is a former secondary school teacher and former chief executive of Nottinghamshire County Council. He will be one of the key policy advisers to Estelle Morris, education and skills secretary.

In brief...The National Children's Bureau in Northern Ireland

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The National Children's Bureau has appointed a research officer in Northern Ireland to explore why a high proportion of children with parents from mixed-community backgrounds end up in public care and how the needs of these children and their families can be met. Berni Kelly, a qualified social worker who is the NCB's co-ordinator in Northern Ireland, will lead the study, which builds on previous NCB studies which found that children with parents from the same community are less likely to be in care.

Time to act on child abuse

    News
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Mary Marsh, director and chief executive of the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) Awareness of child abuse is at an all-time high. But we must move from awareness to action if we are to protect the hidden victims of abuse.

Summer dips

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Emma Comer and Meg Smith of Tall Trees Kindergarten dip into new tastes and textures

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