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Nutrition - Star bakers

    Features
  • Monday, October 29, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Nursery World Award winner Incy Wincy’s approach to food is fun and goes beyond healthy eating. By Meredith Jones-Russell

Play on

    News
  • Wednesday, January 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
An expert evaluation team has issued its final recommendations for Wales' new Foundation Phase - now, is it going to work? Mary Evans reports

First steps

    News
  • Wednesday, January 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
In the first of a new series, Opal Dunn considers the early stages of reading and recommends books on colour for children from birth to three Matching developing communicative needs

Learn to grow

    News
  • Wednesday, January 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners have found some barriers to updating their skills, but the pace of change now makes it a priority. Karen Faux finds out what they can do Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is now a priority for all those who want to progress in a workforce which is becoming more complex and challenging.

Improve communication with parents, Dunblane school told

    News
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Inspectors have told Dunblane Primary School and nursery class staff to improve communication with parents, while praising them for helping traumatised children recover from the massacre at the school in 1996. Five years ago Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children, aged five and six, and their teacher, and injured 11 children and three staff members before killing himself. HM Inspectors, in their report published last week, said that in the years following the tragedy the education authority and school staff have had to manage a wide range of particularly sensitive and demanding issues concerning children, parents and the wider community.

Big Toddle 2017

    Other
  • Monday, April 17, 2017
    • | Nursery World
The Big Toddle is marking its 20th anniversary this year by teaming up with Teletubbies, after nurseries, playgroups and toddlers across the UK raised £588,376 for Barnardo’s last summer.

MSPs proud of partnerships

    News
  • Wednesday, January 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Childcare partnerships have been praised by the Scottish Executive for putting in an 'extraordinary' amount of work throughout a period of 'immense upheaval', and producing significant results. The Executive's document Early Education and Childcare Plans 2001-2004: Guidance to Partnerships, published in January, says, 'Their achievements - your achievements - are real. Hard evidence is now emerging of major improvements in the amount and quality of service offered to children and parents.'

US firm buys Irish nursery chain

    News
  • Wednesday, January 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The US childcare giant Bright Horizons Family Solutions has bought a stake in the Irish nursery market with the acquisition of Dublin chain Circle of Friends. The first Circle of Friends nursery opened just over a year ago, in December 1999. It offers 40 childcare places and a second nursery has 51 places. Bright Horizons' move follows its purchase of London-based Nurseryworks, now known as Nurseryworks Family Solutions, last June.

Cumbria Sure Start's first rural children's centre has opened in Kirby Thore

    News
  • Wednesday, August 9, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Cumbria Sure Start's first rural children's centre has opened in Kirby Thore, next to the village's primary school. The centre focuses on antenatal and postnatal care, special needs support and parenting. It offers a lunch club where parents can access information about employment, training and local services, and the Crafty Kids group for parents and pre-school children.

Parents of children at Stonehaven

    News
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Parents of children at Stonehaven out-of-school club in Grampian were so impressed by the work of Phyllis Sinclair, the club's founder and co-ordinator (centre), that they nominated her for an international award. Phyllis was invited to a special ceremony held at Edinburgh Castle last month along with hundreds of other women who had been nominated for awards on International Women's Day for making a difference in their communities. Photo Nick Anderson

Mind and body

    News
  • Wednesday, April 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Outdoor activity is not just beneficial but essential to young children's mental, emotional and physical development, says Marjorie Ouvry Why is it that when we think back to our own childhoods, so many of the most outstanding and happy memories are of when we were outdoors? Building dens, walking along walls, rolling down grassy slopes, playing in mud, damming streams, doing risky things. Children today are no different. When asked what they like best about nursery, they invariably cite playing outside. Outdoor play is also vital for development. Children learn by moving, and movement needs space. Only through ready access to the outdoors and stimulating outdoor provision can a child's physical development, personal, social and emotional wellbeing and learning across the curriculum flourish.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, January 24, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Learning to read or to write one's name at three is not necessarily an indication of future academic potential. Einstein didn't learn to read until he was seven' Sue Mardel, primary inspector for Ofsted in the West Midlands with responsibility for the early years, The Times

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