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TV shows suspect nursery practices

    News
  • Wednesday, August 11, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Private day nurseries are bracing themselves for another media scare as a TV documentary using 'secret' footage is due to be aired this week.

Working partnerships

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 21, 2015
    • | Nursery World
To do the best for the children in our care, it is crucial to develop strong partnerships with their parents or carers.

Keeping rents down

    News
  • Wednesday, October 27, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'Key workers', such as teachers and nurses, are able to earn 20,000 and above, and at some stage these workers may be better able to afford high rents. But rents are now incredibly high, and I believe there should be affordable rents for everyone. The large market in 'buy to rent' properties fuels the housing market and, so we are told, is good for the economy, which I believe is the Government's first and only priority.

Children at the Frances Wright Pre-School Centre in Dundee

    News
  • Wednesday, October 20, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children at the Frances Wright Pre-School Centre in Dundee enjoy a varied outdoor environment thanks to five murals painted by volunteers from Dundee College depicting a forest, a farm, a beach, a town and a bus. Head teacher Lesley Hutt said, 'I wanted to encourage the children to play imaginatively, so I decided to have places they could go, as well as a bus to get them there. We also have props for each scene.' Photo Paul Reid

Feely bags

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Try a game that will challenge children's tactile senses, concentration, memory and matching abilities. Planned learning intention

Make a spider

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
By Georgina Smith, nursery nurse at Gillas Lane Nursery Unit, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear Talk about spiders and reinforce your discussion by making a simple craft version of the creatures, and saying a rhyme.

In shape

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Play a game about pattern to tie in with our pattern project (see overleaf). Child development opportunities

Children are being served up too many calories

    News
  • Wednesday, August 4, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children are being served up too many calories and excessive fat and not enough of the necessary fibre content and essential vitamins in children's meals on the menu at restaurants, cafes and leisure centres, according to a survey for the Food Commission. All the 141 meals that were analysed failed to meet at least one of the Caroline Walker Trust's nutritional guidelines for school meals. The meals analysed at the Harvester chain, Adventure Kingdom and home superstore IKEA were too high in calories. The 'Rib Ticklers' offered at Harvester contained more than twice the recommended number of calories and four times the recommended levels of fat. Even at London's Science Museum, all the children's meals on offer contained too much saturated fat. The research findings have been submitted to the Food Standards Agency in response to its children's food promotion consultation and to the Department of Health for its 'Choosing Health' consultation.

ICT family fun day: Compute this

    News
  • Tuesday, May 15, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Inviting in families to see what they can do with new technology boosts learning at home, says Irene Drummond of Chatham Place Nursery School, Liverpool

All change

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The birth of a new baby in the family calls for adjustments by the children, parents and nanny, says Jennie Lindon As a nanny you may be part of a family throughout the time that a new baby is expected, and then arrives to change the shape of this family for everyone. Or you may be involved at different stages of the transition time, as the mother takes leave from work. How you will tune into the needs of the parents, the other children and the new baby depends on whether you are with the family from the outset or you join at some point in the process.

Schools minister Jacqui Smith

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Schools minister Jacqui Smith (right) made bread with pupils at Ennersdale Primary School in the London borough of Lewisham and announced a 2.2m package to boost food education and awareness in schools. She said, 'We want to encourage primary schools to do more cooking so children get the healthy eating message.' Photo by Joel Chant

Shape and the first hundred nouns

    News
  • Wednesday, October 20, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Reports evidence from a study in which children's attention to shape in a task of artificial noun learning was correlated with a rate shift in noun acquisitions. Eight children (median age 17 months) were tested at three-week intervals, beginning when they had less than 25 nouns in their productive vocabulary. The results indicate that as children learned nouns, they also learned to attend to shape in the novel word task. Children also showed an acceleration in new noun production outside of the task. * Gershkoff-Stowe, L and Smith, L B, Child Development 75 (4): 1098-1114, July 2004. Abstract: www.blackwell-synergy.com.

Queen's Award for Busy Bees

    Other
  • Monday, October 15, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Busy Bees was presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise at a special event held in recognition of its commitment to providing opportunities and training to thousands of childcare practitioners.

'Raise pay to raise status'

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The low rate of pay in childcare is the key to its current low status in society, according to a report by the Daycare Trust. All our futures: Putting childcare at the centre of every neighbourhood, published last week, said that if the Government was to make its national childcare strategy a reality, it needed to raise the status, training and qualifications of the childcare workforce, as well as recruiting more men and people from ethnic minorities.

In brief...An interactive conference

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An interactive conference in Midlothian on 19 May will focus on the emotional and therapeutic aspects of play. Workshops will include Scottish storytelling, drama and play, gym time and out-of-school care quality standards. The conference, to be opened by Rhona Brankin MSP, is for anyone working with children and young people. Entry costs 25 (15 for charities, voluntary organisations and students). For more information call Myra Henderson on 0131 271 3720.

Councils go for out-of-school package

    News
  • Wednesday, May 9, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Local authorities across Britain are snapping up a pioneering Scottish-designed computer package which aims to take the pain out of managing an out-of-school club. Christine McGrory and Jacque-line Hughes, the directors of the Motherwell-based group of out-of-school clubs, kidsclubsdirect, launched their 'your club in a box' system in March this year. They have already received 100,000 worth of orders for the package, which includes both software and a PC and covers everything from how to start up a club to management and business planning. It provides guidance on meeting registration requirements and underpinning knowledge for the NVQ and SVQ in playwork.

House Plants

    Other
  • Monday, November 26, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Children from Walton Pre-School in Essex have joined forces with a bereavement and friendship group to plant 200 daffodil bulbs donated by housebuilder Taylor Wimpey.

Parents note carers' low pay

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
More than 60 per cent of parents using daycare provision think childcare workers are poorly paid, according to a survey commissioned by the Daycare Trust and Unison. The research, published at the start of this week's National Childcare Week, found that staff are regarded by parents as the most significant factor in the provision of high-quality childcare. But two-thirds of parents are aware that the sector is lowly paid, while 19 per cent of parents believe that childcare staff are generally well-paid.

Figures show rise in care for three-year-olds

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Almost half the three-year-olds in England attend a private day nursery or pre-school, according to Government figures published last week. The figures show that of 541,300 three-year-olds in all daycare sectors, the number in the private and voluntary sectors increased from 268,000 (44 per cent of all three-year-olds) in January 2000 to 285,000 (47 per cent) in January 2001, an increase of 17,000. The number of three-year-olds funded by the nursery education grant in the private and voluntary sectors tripled from 6 per cent to 19 per cent during the same time, increasing by 79,900 from 37,000 to 116,900.

Latest things

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Imaginative aids to creative play and movement are spotlighted by Laura Marcus MUSIC AND MOVEMENT

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