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How does your garden grow?

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Growing their own vegetables will enrich children's learning and enthusiasm for the project. So, get digging! The Growing Schools project (growing.schools@dfes.gsi.gov.uk) is a major initiative which aims to 'harness the full potential of the outdoor classroom as a teaching and learning resource. As part of the initiative, Learning through Landscapes (www.ltl. org.uk) has developed an early years project, Growing Upwards, with four principal aims:

The village of Deogarh in India was brought to life at Ottakers bookshop

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The village of Deogarh in India was brought to life at Ottakers bookshop in Aberdeen when children heard the story of Ganesh the elephant god and an abridged version of the epic Indian poem, 'Ramayana', and made masks and puppets. The girls received a bindi dot. Sukanya Basu read to Adam Ingram, six (left), and Bailey Gwynne, five, entertained by a 'tiger', played by Andi Ma. Spokeswoman Amy Nimegeer said, 'It is a way of children learning about another culture while raising some money for children their own age.' Aberdeen Photo Paul Reid

To the point: Speaking on parade

    Features
  • Monday, June 13, 2011
    • | Nursery World
All year, the National Communication Champion, Jean Gross, has been making a passionate case for the children with less-developed communication. We know they often struggle academically, emotionally and socially in school. These difficulties affect boys especially.

Disability bias brought to book

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A new project to increase the representation of disabled people in children's books is to be launched by Scope, the UK's leading national disability organisation working with cerebral palsy. 'In the Picture' is a three-year project targeting inequality in children's literature by introducing young disabled characters in mainstream books.

Transforming lives

    News
  • Wednesday, September 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Why was a parenting project shortlisted for a prestigious European award? Joyce Reid reports on its success A parenting project in Dundee has been so successful that it was one of five shortlisted for the prestigious European Alcuin Award, an initiative launched in 1991 by the European Parents Association to highlight the role of parents as partners in the education of their children.

A parent's guide on how to stop smoking

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
As parents we all want the best start in life for our children, and that includes good health. But quite often without intention or awareness we can damage our children's health when we smoke around them. The problems can occur before the baby is even born if the mother smokes while she is pregnant. Smoking in pregnancy

Climbing high

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The favourite nursery rhyme 'The Incy Wincy Spider' can be used as the starting point for a series of problem-solving activities in the water tray. Resources

'Clouds'

    News
  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children aged six months to two years enjoyed all the drama of an interactive, multi-sensory production called 'Clouds' by the Oily Cart theatre company. The show gave the very young their first taste of the theatre as part of this year's Kids' Week, when theatrical events and free tickets are on offer to children in London's West End.

Silly Seeds

    Other
  • Monday, November 14, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Children at Rocking Horse Nursery in Finchley, Londonhave gone on an autumn exploration.

Enabling Environments: Outdoors - Passing it on

    Features
  • Monday, November 14, 2016
    • | Nursery World
In the third part of her series on Newham’s Outdoors and Active programme, Julie Mountain finds out how it has involved parents and carers to create a family culture of movement and physicality

EYFS Activities - Music to their ears

    Features
  • Monday, November 14, 2016
    • | Nursery World
A ‘Dogs, Bones and Dancing’ project at two settings in Cumbria began with children exploring musical instruments, which led to a variety of creative activities, discovers Annette Rawstrone

Schools 'opt out of inter-agency work'

    News
  • Wednesday, September 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Children Bill could be doomed to failure if schools are not given a duty to protect young people, a coalition of children's sector organisations warned last week. The 15-strong inter-agency grouping, including the Local Government Association (LGA), Barnardo's, the NSPCC and the National Children's Bureau (NCB), is concerned that the Bill does not require schools to participate in the integration of services that could improve the lives of children and young people.

'Teachers' status for early years workers'

    News
  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Early years workers must have equal pay, treatment and status with primary school teachers, childcare professionals were told last week. Delivering the annual childcare lecture for the Daycare Trust in London, former chief economic adviser to the Treasury, Ed Balls, said this was one of the main workforce areas that needed to be addressed if the Government is to fulfil the vision in the ten-year plan of universal and high-quality childcare for all.

Leadership - How to be first-rate

    Features
  • Monday, July 11, 2011
    • | Nursery World
To improve a setting for 90 children, nursery leader Pip Otter carried out an audit, using the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales (ECERS). This revealed strengths and weaknesses.

Physical punishment

    News
  • Wednesday, January 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A new law on the physical punishment of children that came into force on 14 January still faces criticism by anti-smacking campaigners. The 'reasonable punishment' law states that hitting a child is legal, as long as it does not cause injury amounting to anything more than transient reddening of the skin. The NSPCC has called on the Government to make clear how it intends to monitor the use of the law in relation to prosecutions and convictions. NSPCC chief executive Mary Marsh said, 'This new law is flawed. Defining acceptable ways to hit children should become a thing of the past. The Government should also be educating and supporting parents in positive parenting and endorse the message that hitting children is wrong.'

Grove Road school in Harrogate

    News
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Grove Road school in Harrogate has received an outstanding Ofsted report for nursery and reception classes. The nursery's creative development provision was found to be outstanding and facilities for children with special needs were given full marks.

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