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Our bright idea

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Children at Carey Days Nursery at The Mount in Nottingham have given their role-play area a spring clean by creating their very own launderette. We wanted to try something different and came up with the idea of having a launderette. The project started with a discussion on how and why we have to wash clothes - for example, when children have accidents with food or paint.

Personal, social and emotional development

    News
  • Wednesday, May 14, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Principle * Planning for the development of independence skills, particularly for children who are highly dependent on adult support, for personal care (p28)

Analysis: Government policy - Are we a childcare nation?

    News
  • Wednesday, October 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Families still face many hurdles to accessing universal, high-quality childcare, despite progress by policymakers. Sharon Charity of Daycare Trust looks at what the Government could be doing to clear the way for them.

Resource aids listening skills

    News
  • Wednesday, October 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners can learn how to listen to young children better with the help of new resource produced by children's charity the Coram Family. Compiling Listening to young children, by Penny Lancaster and Vanessa Broadbent, involved more than 500 children and practitioners from more than 30 educational, social care and health settings.

Parenting: Experts seek TV ban

    News
  • Wednesday, October 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The backlash against parenting reality-television programmes continued this week, with child experts united against Channel 4's 'Bringing Up Baby'.

Shake up of school funding to create fairer system

    News
  • Thursday, December 15, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Plans to reform school funding to end ‘a historical postcode lottery’ will see a redistribution of money with schools in big cities like Manchester, and London boroughs losing out in favour of schools in rural areas and suburbs.

Catering Stars

    Other
  • Monday, April 17, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Acorn Childcare has achieved the Soil Association’s Silver Food for Life Catering Mark for serving fresh and healthy meals in the group’s ten day nurseries across Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire.

Race Track Outing

    Other
  • Monday, April 17, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Children at Bright Horizons Annandale Nursery in Edinburgh enjoyed a trip to a nearby racetrack at the park.

Childcare workers turning to T&G

    News
  • Wednesday, July 3, 2002
    • | Nursery World
More childcare workers than ever are turning to the Transport and General Workers Union for help, support and protection, the union says. More than 1,500 childcare workers have joined the T&G since it launched its childcare campaign in November 1999. Diana Holland, T&G national organiser, said that as a result of its childcare initiative, the union was 'in a much stronger position now in terms of negotiating with employers, representing our members generally and lobbying the Government'.

Come and play!

    News
  • Wednesday, March 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Children got the chance to shake, rattle and roll at the launch of the Come and Play! initiative for out-of-school clubs in London's Ministry of Sound nightclub last week. The three-year-programme, run jointly by the charity Youth Music and the Kids' Clubs Network, will invest more than 650,000 in providing children in disadvantaged areas with opportunities to pick up an instrument (see News, 6 March). Photograph by Jacky Chapman.

Childcarers shine at awards show

    News
  • Wednesday, July 3, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Astar-studded ceremony to present the Excellence in Childcare Awards 2002 last week rounded off National Childcare Month. The Tate Modern gallery on London's South Bank was the venue for the event, organised by the Kids' Clubs Network in association with Nursery World.

Four voluntary sector projects

    News
  • Wednesday, July 3, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Four voluntary sector projects to support children with special educational needs have been awarded 633,142 by the Scottish Executive through the SEN Innovation Grants programme. One project will provide a training package to train teachers in the use of music technology for children with SEN. Another will bring the voluntary and statutory sectors in the Highlands together in a single information, training and support service for professionals and families. Another will develop collaborative practice and training materials in inclusive education, and the fourth will train professionals and parents in person-centred planning to help parents and children participate fully in decisions that affect them.

Owner campaigns for change on tax duties

    News
  • Monday, September 19, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A nursery owner is calling for ring-fencing of the tax that nurseries have to pay on Government funding so private settings can reinvest money back into their provision and pass the savings on to parents.

Rough and smooth

    News
  • Wednesday, August 25, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Playing with texture in groups encourages co-operation and individual creative development. And just as importantly, it's also great fun, says Judith Stevens Encourage sensory exploration as children make sense of the world around them through hands-on, practical, creative activities.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, August 13, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'The Revenue seems to be making it up as it goes along. This huge new system has been brought in without really being properly thought through' Richard Mannion, head of tax at accountants Solomon Hare, on reports that computer problems are affecting payments of tax credits, The Times

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