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'Do it in Denim'

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Early years settings and schools are being urged to 'Do it in Denim' to raise funds for sick children in this year's Jeans for Genes Day on 3 October. The day will see children and adults nationwide wear jeans and donate 1 each to the campaign that is led by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. To register for a free fundraising pack, use the Jeans for Genes freephone hotline on 0800 980 4800 or visit its website www. jeansforgenes.com. More than 15m has been raised since the campaign began in 1996.

Recruitment: Part 2 - Which job?

    Features
  • Monday, June 25, 2018
    • | Nursery World
As part of a series unpicking the recruitment crisis and giving strategies to combat it, Charlotte Goddard explores ways that settings can sell themselves, and asks why candidates pick one job over another

Fight the poverty of modern values

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
I read with interest two news stories on the same page of the 4 September edition of Nursery World. In the first story, 'Benefits costed in daycare for all', Rosemary Murphy, chief executive of the National Day Nurseries Association, is quoted as saying that Government policy 'has been about getting people back to work as a means of eradicating child poverty'. The second story, 'School readiness gap is debated' quotes Ofsted chief inspector David Bell as saying that 'children's verbal skills are lacking' and that parents need to be encouraged to 'talk to their children and give them a whole range of stimulating things to do'.

News Analysis: Media watch

    News
  • Friday, August 17, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Toddlers aged two to three years old who snore persistently are more likely to have behavioural problems, according to research published online in US journal Pediatrics.

How far can I go?

    News
  • Tuesday, September 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The key to setting effective rules and limitations for young children is knowing what you can expect them to be able to follow most of the time, writes Jennie Lindon

Government's childcare reforms 'put children at risk'

    News
  • Wednesday, March 13, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Reforms to increase ratios to allow nursery staff and childminder to look after more children are at odds with Government policy to foster close one-to-one bonds with children, an early years expert will say today.

TV and radio

    News
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World
26 September Conversations with Rowan Williams - Playing God (Channel Four, 7.30 to 8pm)

The work of early years professionals

    News
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The work of early years professionals was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours last weekend. Among those to receive MBEs are Josephine Aldard, learning support assistant at St Martin's Church of England Infants School in Salisbury, Wiltshire, for services to education; Belinda Badcock, for services to childminding in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey; Ruby Burns, for services to pre-school education at Cardonald College, Glasgow; Williamina Cumming, manager of the Rocking Horse Nursery at the University of Aberdeen, for services to nursery care; Pamela Jay, nursery nurse at Victoria Special School in Birmingham, for services to special needs children; Patricia MacMaster, chair of Somerset Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, for services to early years education; Anne Sterry, nursery nurse at Usk Primary School, for services to children with special educational needs; and Brenda Tumber, pre-school adviser at Kent Local Education Authority, for services to early education and special educational needs.

Two by two

    News
  • Tuesday, September 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff and children alike have a lot to learn from the experience of working in pairs. Kate Whelan describes the practice and observations developed in her setting

Thirty-nine neighbourhood nurseries will be created with a further 6m of lottery cash from the New Opportunities Fund

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Thirty-nine neighbourhood nurseries will be created with a further 6m of lottery cash from the New Opportunities Fund. London, the south-west and north-east have each been awarded more than Pounds 1m. In Oxford the Slade Nursery School is to have an additional 45 places following a 221,334 award to Oxfordshire County Council. The nursery will eventually have a large outdoor play area and increased family support services for the community. Marjorie Evans, chair of the local Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership, said, 'A freestanding nursery school as an integrated centre for foundation education, care for nought- to five-year-old children and family support has been on the EYDCP, LEA and school's agenda for five years.'

Children's service revamp proposed

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Early years professionals in England will be expected to work more closely with parents to give them a better understanding of their children's development, under proposals contained in last week's Green Paper, Every child matters. As well as announcing the Government's plan for England to have an independent children's commissioner, the Green Paper sets out its framework for services covering all children and young people from birth to the age of 19 living in England. Key proposals include all children being given a number so they can be tracked from birth, resulting in the 'sweeping away'

Council nurseries to lose their kitchens

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
All but four of Edinburgh's city nurseries are to lose their on-site catering facilities from next month, as part of council cost-cutting measures.

APEL certificate gets go-ahead

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The new 'fast-track' route that could lead early years practitioners in England to a Level 3 childcare qualification in three months has been accredited by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. The Level 3 certificate for work with children in early years or playwork is aimed at experienced early years practitioners, childcare workers and playworkers who have been working in a Level 3 role but do not hold a formal Level 3 qualification, and for those who gained qualifications before the Children Act 1989.

The number of support staff working in maintained nurseries and schools

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The number of support staff working in maintained nurseries and schools, including special schools and pupil referral units, in England has risen by 8,400 to reach 225,400, while there are 16,000 more teaching assistants bringing the total to 122,400, according to Government statistics published last week. The data on the school workforce up to January 2003 also revealed that the number of regular teachers in the nursery and primary sectors remained at 197,400, while the number of occasional teachers fell by 1,700 to 8,400, bringing the total number of teachers down to 205,800. Teacher vacancies in primary and nursery schools went down by 690 to 1,110 in January, a vacancy rate of 0.6 per cent.

Change nurseries now, parents told

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Independent schools in England have been asked not to disrupt young children's early years education by putting pressure on their parents to move them in order to secure a place at their future school. The call was made last week by the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) after a day nursery in Cambridgeshire reported that two private schools had been urging parents to take their children out of the nursery and enrol them at the school instead.

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