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Parent support services: Right from the start

    News
  • Tuesday, August 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
It is what happens at home that really affects the life chances of under-fives, but policy-makers have tended to consider this a private matter. Should it remain so? Anne Wiltsher looks at another way

Ready when they are

    News
  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I wrote to Nursery World three years ago on the subject of too much formal education too early. I made the point that my four-year-old son wasn't remotely interested in sitting still and learning anything, but he was very interested in turning cardboard boxes into Tracey Island. A year later, he went to school and, while he learned to read and write, he was hardly an enthusiastic pupil. He would still rather have been making things out of boxes and running around in the playground or park.

Work Matters: Finance

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Lynn Bryden is business and finance support officer at Sure Start Strategic Partnership Tyne & Wear (www.northtyneside.gov.uk)

Working Mum - I cried and she cried

    Features
  • Monday, March 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
What does early years education and childcare look like through the eyes of a typical working mother? In the first of a new series, Working Mum explains how settling her second daughter into nursery was as hard as first time around

Physical fitness

    News
  • Wednesday, November 15, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Physical fitness differences in children with and without motor learning difficulties In this Australian study, 52 children with motor learning difficulties (MLD), aged five to eight years, were compared with 52 age- and gender-matched control children across a range of health and skill-related fitness components. Analyses revealed significantly lower scores in the group with MLD on the tests for cardio-respiratory endurance, flexibility, abdominal strength, speed and power than the control group. Also, the group with MLD had a significantly higher Body Mass Index.

To the point...

    News
  • Wednesday, November 24, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell sees little progress being made in chld protection despite a review of cases It was easy to miss: minister for children Margaret Hodge this month delivered the results of the mighty national search of files of children made the subject of a care order that she commissioned in the summer. This was in the wake of the Angela Cannings appeal, in which the judges proposed that there should be no prosecution in infant death cases that depended on disputed medical evidence.

Music suppliers

    News
  • Wednesday, August 1, 2001
    • | Nursery World
* Music Education Supplies offers a wide range of musical instruments and music books, tel: 020 8870 3866, fax: 020 8770 3554 * Acorn Educational 015367 46480 * Leading early years suppliers, such as Hope, Galt and NES Arnold, also have a steadily growing stock of musical instruments.

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