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Council bills neighbours for care across borders

    News
  • Wednesday, November 29, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Overspending by Edinburgh City Council has opened up a geographical question over how councils pay for free nursery education entitlement in Scotland. Under proposals by the children and families department, commuters who use childcare in the Edinburgh area would no longer have their free nursery education places paid for by the city council. Education councillors agreed that they would now bill surrounding councils for non-residents'

Ask the expert

    News
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour QIn our nursery we have a rabbit and a hamster, and we take time to help the children learn how to treat them gently. A four-year-old girl, who has been with us for a couple of months, seems to find it very hard to be kind to the animals. She chases them round the garden, pulls their fur and once actually hit the rabbit. We have talked with her father, who says his daughter is too young to understand. We feel the little girl is getting better, but still cannot be trusted completely. In the holidays, the animals go home with one of the nursery families. This family has asked to take the rabbit next half-term.

Care access bars disabled children

    News
  • Wednesday, November 29, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Inadequate out-of-school and holiday childcare provision is still a major barrier to work for parents of disabled children, according to a four-year study by the Centre for Social Inclusion. Caring for Sick or Disabled Children: Parents' experiences of combining work and care was commissioned by Carers UK and Contact a Family.

A big step

    News
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2002
    • | Nursery World
In the first of a two-part series, Maureen Smith says today's mature students can look forward to plenty of help and moral support A look at the DfES Childcare Workforce Surveys 2001 quickly dispels the notion that childcarers are poorly qualified and very young. The picture that emerges is one of a mature workforce studying hard to upgrade their qualifications. One-third of nursery staff are aged 24 to 39 with another fifth aged 40 or over, while a quarter of nursery managers, one-third of supervisors and two-thirds of other nursery staff are currently studying to improve their qualifications. Mature students, part-time and full-time, come from a wide variety of backgrounds, undertake a broad range of qualifications and return to studying as a route back into work or to enhance their employment prospects.

Nursery activities

    News
  • Wednesday, May 18, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Collingham Pre-school have found that photography is an ideal way in which to capture the enjoyment of play and the excitement of discovery in young children. They use photographs to document children's significant landmarks in learning as part of the assessment process. Recently, they decided to select photographs to illustrate aspects of the curriculum on a display for parents. Planned learning intentions:

NICE to check for hereditary cholesterol

    News
  • Tuesday, September 2, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Children as young as two who are at risk of inherited cholesterol disorder, familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), could be screened for the genetic defect, which makes them eight times more likely to suffer from a heart attack.

Attract attention

    News
  • Wednesday, May 18, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Discover the forces of nature that push and pull objects or make them fall to the ground in part two of our project by Jane Drake A thematic approach to planning should link directly to what children already know and understand, and to their current learning interests. A project such as forces may be used to motivate children and stimulate their learning, but it can only engage them when the planned activities are appropriate to their experience. Ideas can also be taken from project plans throughout the year to support children's personal interests and to enrich predictable interests and experiences for a group.

Nursery world looking for views and reports on 'tried and tested series'

    News
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Nursery world is looking for nurseries, pre-schools, children's centres, schools and childminders to give their views and write reports on various new resources and equipment for our monthly 'tried and tested series' which starts in September. If you would like to be considered as a tester, contact Nicole Weinstein by e-mail at nurseryworld@googlemail.com.

Toy beads withdrawn from sale

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2007
    • | Nursery World
More than 500,000 sets of the popular toy beads Bindeez, made in China, have been withdrawn from sale in the UK and Ireland after a five-year-old girl in Teesside was left in a coma after coming into contact with a chemical coating on the beads. The girl has since recovered.

Mathematics in the EYFS: Measure - In comparison

    Features
  • Thursday, December 13, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Give children plenty of opportunities to measure and compare quantities, and develop the vocabulary to describe what they are doing, with more activity ideas in our series by Sheila Ebbutt and Carole Skinner.

Lack of progress on child poverty

    News
  • Tuesday, August 12, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Liberal Democrats have criticised the Government for its lack of progress on child poverty, claiming that more working families are in poverty today than when Labour came to power in 1997.

NCVCCO error

    News
  • Wednesday, May 22, 2002
    • | Nursery World
You report Gillian Pugh's 'bafflement' at only two Early Excellence Centres in England being in primary schools, when launching the NCVCCO report Re-framing Children's Services (News, 2 May). Indeed, it would be strange if this was a correct description of the position. Of the 58 Early Excellence Centres, six are in primary schools (Torrington, two primary schools form the Gateshead network, Leeds, Tyneside, South Tyneside and St Helens), while six share a primary school site or combine aspects of their provision with an adjacent primary or special school (Banbury, Bath, Biggleswade, Birmingham, Greenwich, Islington), and the network in Northumberland works with seven first schools.

Centres go slow on open access play

    News
  • Wednesday, May 11, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Progress towards open access play in new integrated children's centres in Wales has been hampered by difficulties in blending provision for older children with early years education. According to a new report issued last week by the Institute of Welsh Affairs, seven centres are now fully operational, but all are still in the process of planning the core element of open access play, which provides play opportunities for children up to 15.

Childminders top quality scale over nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
One in every 50 registered childcarers has been judged 'outstanding' for their provision of quality of care and education, according to Ofsted's annual report. The report, which for the first time lists England's 'outstanding'

Give it some Welly

    Other
  • Monday, November 28, 2016
    • | Nursery World
The children at Twinkles Leeds nursery had a go at 'welly wanging in the wet weather'

Beanstalking

    Other
  • Monday, January 23, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The pre-school children of Toad Hall Nursery Haslemere have been learning all about ‘Jack and the beanstalk’, talking about the characters and learning that stories have a beginning, middle and an end.

Partial junk food ad ban is condemned

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The broadcasting regulator Ofcom has been accused of caving in to the food and advertising lobbies after refusing to enforce a ban on ads for junk food before the 9pm television watershed. Richard Watts, campaign co-ordinator for the Children's Food Campaign, said Ofcom's decision to limit the ban to the traditional hours of children's TV 'will have almost no effect', as 71 per cent of the viewing by the average child is outside these hours.

Grants for 100 voluntary sector organisations

    News
  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009
    • | Nursery World
More than 100 voluntary sector organisations will receive a total of 46m in grants over two years as part of the Children, Young People and Families grants programme.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Heads together

    Features
  • Monday, June 29, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Only high-quality provision for funded two-year-olds will tackle disadvantage and support the early identification of SEN - and practitioner/parent teamwork will help, says Dr Kay Mathieson.

All in the mind

    News
  • Wednesday, May 11, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Help children to sharpen their minds while they strengthen their bodies - and have fun in the process - with these activity ideas from Miranda Walker Are you on the look out for new, fun ways to energise play sessions and motivate children, helping them to develop? Activities that take how the brain works into consideration could be just the thing - and they can even help you to improve your own brain function.

About this series

    News
  • Wednesday, July 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
* This series aims to help practitioners inform parents and carers about common concerns and improve practice within their setting. * Display the parent's guide on your noticeboard or give photocopies to parents who ask for advice.

Driving nanny to distraction

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Have you ever found yourself in traffic behind one of those lorries with a 'How's my driving?' sign on the back? The same idea is being applied to nannies in New York City with a website, HowsMyNanny.com, 'run by a prosecutor who is also a mother of two'. Parents subscribing to the service can have a 'licence plate' attached to their child's pushchair bearing a unique identifying number and the website address, and any 'concerned citizen' can report on their nanny's behaviour when they're out and about, via an e-mail relayed to the parent. HowsMyNanny makes some reasonable points defending its practice, including the usual one that 'professionals will have nothing to hide', and it encourages praise as well as tattling. But questions do remain - what about nannies who cover up the (locked on) licence plate? What about malicious false reports against the nanny? What about the rest of the time when nanny and child are not out in public, or about the children who are too old for a pushchair? Most of all, what about trust - what sort of relationship can such an employer and their nanny have? What do you think? Drop us a line - but don't rat on anybody, yet!

Let's eat

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Meanwhile, how about getting in seasonal mood by making these Snowman Meringues with the children, as suggested by Fiona Hamilton-Fairley of the Kids' Cookery School, London W3. Separate and whisk the whites of two eggs in a mixing bowl until doubled in size and fluffy. Gradually add 100g sugar until glossy. On a sheet of greaseproof paper on a baking tray, place some large round spoonfuls of the mixture for the snowman's body, and some smaller spoonfuls for the head (this will make three snowmen). Cook in a cool oven at 100xC for 60 to 90 minutes until the outside of the meringue feels crisp to the touch, with the inside still gooey. When cooled, decorate with white icing and chocolate drops, liquorice allsorts and hundreds-and-thousands for the face and features.

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