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Children missing a few good men

    News
  • Wednesday, May 15, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children whose fathers are on duty in Afghanistan with 45 Commando Group had a visit last week from Angus MP Mike Weir and Provost Frances Duncan at the Royal Marines' Condor Family Centre in Arbroath. Mr Weir said, 'The whole community feels for the families now that the men are away in Afghanistan. Nobody knows how long they are going to be away, so it is a strain on the families.'

Begonia Foundation

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Delegates from the Begonia Foundation, a Taiwanese charity for teenagers, came to exchange ideas about social enterprise with London charity Kid's City, whose Teenscene scheme and volunteering/ training programmes were of particular interest.

Proud of raising our standards

    News
  • Wednesday, November 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Liz Bayram, chief executive of the National Childminding Association Ofsted released its Annual Report this week and, for the first time, early years settings, including registered childminders, have received 'outstanding' gradings and their names listed in the report. This has already been the case for schools and colleges for some time and it is a great to see early years settings now recognised in the same way. NCMA has heard from many of the childminders who have received an 'outstanding' grading, including those who had only being registered for a few months beforehand.

Deputy Prime Minister visits nursery

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  • Friday, September 6, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Mace Montessori School in Hammersmith played host to the Deputy Prime minister Nick Clegg on Monday, who visited the setting to confirm the extension of the free two-year-old places.

Literacy hour leaves 'no time for thinking'

    News
  • Wednesday, May 15, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The national literacy hour is not giving children opportunities to learn how to speak and think for themselves, according to an academic study. Researchers from Durham and Leicester Universities have found that teachers feel under pressure to keep up the pace of the literacy hour and are asking children questions which require only brief and unreflective answers, rather than taking an open-ended approach that allows the children to express their views at length. The study found that just one in ten of the spoken contributions children make during the literacy hour is longer than three words, with only five per cent longer than five.

Nursery chain to appear in court

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  • Wednesday, September 17, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Nursery chain just Learning, which owned the nursery where ten-month-old Georgia Hollick died after choking on an apple in April 2006 (News, 3 July 2008) will appear in court next month after being charged with health and safety breaches.

Five-year-olds at Duncombe Primary School in Islington

    News
  • Wednesday, May 15, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Five-year-olds at Duncombe Primary School in Islington, London, enjoy a hug as they learn about emotions and relationships during a 'getting along together' class. Joanna Watters, reception class teacher, said the sessions are designed to encourage pupils to express emotions and to deal with problems among themselves.

The new chief

    News
  • Wednesday, May 15, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The new chief inspector of schools in England has committed himself to visiting schools each week to see how they are getting on. David Bell, who succeeded Mike Tomlinson as head of Ofsted on 1 April, revealed his intention during a lengthy question and answer session in front of the Education and Skills Select Committee in Westminster last week. Mr Bell, a former primary school teacher from Glasgow who most recently was chief executive of Bedfordshire County Council, told the committee he knew what it was like 'to be on the receiving end' of Ofsted inspections. The Ofsted inspection regime, he said, was there 'to support a school and not be a bureaucratic exercise from outside'. When asked if he had seen differences in standards between schools in Scotland and England, he said that when he came to work in England in the mid-1980s he 'didn't notice the dramatic differences I had been led to believe'.

Little gardeners

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  • Monday, April 6, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Children at Brookside Academy in Somerset have been working on their new nursery garden, helping tie ribbons for a fairy garden and digging.

Kidsactive has set up a new e-discussion group

    News
  • Wednesday, May 4, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Kidsactive has set up a new e-discussion group on inclusive play which will provide a forum for members to share good practice and discuss issues around inclusion. To become a member, sign up to Kids Active Inclusive Play Network on www.fontstuff.com/kidsactive/nipn/ and you will receive regular bi-monthly e-bulletins on inclusive play.

Education gap linked to poverty

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  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Closing the gap in educational achievement for children from poor families is the key to ending child poverty, children's minister Beverly Hughes said last week at an event to mark End Child Poverty Month. Speaking at the Social Market Foundation in London, Ms Hughes said, 'It won't be easy to meet child poverty targets and close the attainment gap between poor children and the rest. It is also increasingly clear that these objectives are inextricably linked and that success in one will help generate success in the other.'

Brian Griffiths

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  • Wednesday, May 4, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Brian Griffiths, co-owner of the two Burton Latimer Day Nurseries in Kettering, made his second court appearance before magistrates on 27 April over child pornography offences (see Nursery World, 21 April). The original 13 charges of making or possessing child pornography have now been increased to 18. The case has been adjourned for six weeks and Mr Griffiths will reappear before magistrates at the same court in Kettering on 8 June. It is expected that the case will then be committed to Northamptonshire Crown Court for trial in July.

Practitioners to train to work with parents

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  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
An academy supporting and training practitioners who work with parents will be operational by autumn next year, children's minister Beverley Hughes revealed this week. The National Academy for Parenting Practitioners is 'crucial' for developing the skills needed to support parents, Ms Hughes said at a National Families and Parenting Institute conference. Key stakeholders, including NFPI, are working with the DfES to create a specification for the academy. This will be released shortly for contract bidding.

Term-time deals in firing line

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  • Wednesday, July 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The public sector union Unison has lodged a pay claim with the local government pay negotiating body to put an end to term-time-only contracts in England and Wales, which it says discriminate against 'tens of thousands' of its members who work in education. The union said more than 90 per cent of term-time workers are women, that around 80 per cent of classroom support staff are unpaid for up to 13 weeks a year and that they lose out on holiday pay, sick pay and other benefits.

Nurseries Associations want to hear members' experiences

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  • Wednesday, April 23, 2008
    • | Nursery World
The national day Nurseries Association wants to hear members' experiences of the recent cost-analysis process carried out by local authorities to identify gaps in funding the free early years entitlement. Complete the short online survey at www.ndna.org.uk by 30 May.

Room to grow

    News
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The simple ingredients of a successful nursery garden are explored by Jan White, early years development officer at Learning Through Landscapes. Early years practitioners are recognising more and more the benefits that being outdoors can bring to a child's intellectual, physical and emotional well-being, and creating lively and dynamic outdoor areas.

All natural

    Other
  • Monday, January 26, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Children in the Butterfly room at Kids Inc Nursery in Crowthorne, Berkshire have enjoyed collecting items from their forest area.

Simple pleasures

    News
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A popular children's author is lending his talents to a character from advertising for bedtime reading. Nicole Curnow talked with him David McKee is a difficult man to track down. When he's not working on his illustrations in the south of France, he's in Paris writing one of his many children's books or he's overseeing animations at his Exeter-based film company. He does not own a computer or an e-mail address; he rarely puts himself in the media spotlight and refers to himself as 'a bit of a hermit'.

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