Personal account Institutional account
| Register |

Search Results

Found 42,437 results for .

Comedy explores the pre-school world

    News
  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A playwright who owned her own nursery for 13 years has turned the stresses and strains of an Ofsted inspection into a comedy, where yoghurt is banned because of health and safety fears.

Paul Bonel

    News
  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Paul Bonel, head of playwork at SkillsActive, Nursery World contributor, and co-author of the book Playwork: A Guide to Good Practice, passed away in January.

Free to play

    News
  • Wednesday, September 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Playwork training and qualifications are underpinned by essential values and assumptions. The first assumption is that: 'Children's play is freely chosen, personally directed behaviour, motivated from within; through play, the child explores the world and their relationship with it, elaborating all the while a flexible range of responses to challenges they encounter; by playing, the child learns and develops as an individual.' The second assumption is: 'Whereas children play without encouragement or help, adults can, through the provision of an appropriate human and physical environment, significantly enhance opportunities for the child to play creatively and thus develop through play.'

DfE takes on wider role in PM's reshuffle

    News
  • Thursday, July 14, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Newly appointed education secretary Justine Greening takes on an expanded government department, which will include responsibility for further education, higher education and skills.

Social Enterprise: 'Settings need business flair'

    News
  • Wednesday, November 21, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Settings need to be more business-minded and receive more practical support to make a success of social enterprise childcare in London, representatives at an inaugural round-table event concluded last week.

Reader offer

    News
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* We have 20 copies of Tall by Jez Alborough (Walker Books, 5.99) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Tall', to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first 20 names drawn on 10 August. Nursery World (TSL Education Ltd) and its associated companies may from time to time wish to process, or disclose your data to approved third party companies, in order to monitor our service and send you future promotions.

15 hours...extending the nursery day

    Features
  • Tuesday, February 22, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Moving from sessional care to a flexible offer presents a challenge with variable attendance patterns throughout the day, as Deepdale Community Pre-school in West Yorkshire found

Fire safety campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A Government fire safety campaign 'Know your plan. Get out alive' to be launched later this month aims to ensure children and adults know how to get out safely from burning homes. Fire safety minister Chris Leslie said, 'Every household should establish a fire safety plan, which should include identifying all practical escape routes, so that if a fire does break out everyone will know what to do quickly and safely.' Fire safety tips include keeping doors closed at night and remembering that smoke rises, so the cleanest air will be near the floor. More than 400 people are killed annually in house fires and 12,500 are injured. The campaign will run on television from 18 September to 20 October.

Who expects children to be perfect?

    News
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
With all the articles in Nursery World about appropriate practices in nurseries, why are some nurseries still dictating to staff how perfect their classrooms should look? For example, I was interviewed at one nursery who insisted that children's work should be displayed only if it looked perfect. A staff member told me in confidence that she would spend hours choosing art projects that looked neat. In some cases she would even do the project herself. As I looked around, I did not notice any eye-level pictures of the children's work, nor pictures that the children could look at while in the home corner, or other areas of the room.

Editor’s view - Critical remarks

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 25, 2016
    • | Nursery World
As this issue of Nursery World goes to press, we’re still waiting to hear who will be taking on ministerial responsibilities for early years and childcare at the Department for Education.

Shore thing

    News
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Children rarely come home empty-handed from a trip to the beach. Put their finds to good use with arts and crafts ideas from Hilary White The seaside can be an endless source of fascinating finds. The next time you and the children come home from the beach with a bucketful of pebbles and shells, try turning your natural treasures into art with the following ideas.

The number of pupils in pre-school centres expected to fall

    News
  • Wednesday, September 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The number of pupils in pre-school centres is expected to fall by 11 per cent over the next ten years, according to Scottish Executive projected figures. The executive calculates there are presently 105,600 children in pre-schools, an increase of 19 per cent from September 1999. However, it expects this will gradually decrease to around 94,000 by 2012. The fall in projected numbers is principally due to very low birth rates over the past few years. The report, Pupil and Teacher Projections for Scotland 2002, is available on www.scotland.gov.uk.

Speech and language charity I CAN

    News
  • Wednesday, July 19, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Speech and language charity I CAN is inviting childcare professionals and parents to complete an online poll about early years communication development. The poll, at www.ican.org.uk, aims to establish whether more such information needs to be made available to parents.

© MA Education 2024. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 04002826. MA Education is part of the Mark Allen Group. – All Rights Reserved