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Win a book on transitions

    News
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2010
    • | Nursery World
With a three-part series on transitions beginning in this week's Nursery World, five readers have a chance to win a free copy of Julie Fisher's new book, Moving On to Key Stage 1, published by the Open University Press at 17.99.

Government scraps Child Poverty Act

    News
  • Thursday, July 2, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The existing measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act will be replaced with a new duty to report on worklessness and educational attainment.

Four years or five?

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I'm always devastated when our four-year-olds leave our homely nursery, with child-friendly chairs, tables and toilets and fantastic outdoor play facilities, to be put into uniform and sent to 'big school'. Most schools have large class sizes with a qualified teacher and maybe one or two teaching assistants, but it is not the same as the nursery ratios.

Including allergies

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I cried as I read 'A food limit too far' (Letters, 22 December) because it was condescending and unsympathetic to the plight of children with food allergies. I am a nursery practitioner and the mother of a child with a life-threatening egg allergy. In my world, the simplest things must be scrutinised to keep my child safe. I'm glad that my child's pre-school had more sympathy towards the problems of allergies and coped better than Marcella Cunningham's nursery.

Child tax credits streamlined

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Government proposals to reform the Working Families Tax Credit, which includes the childcare tax credit that helps parents on low incomes with childcare costs, were revealed last week. Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo published a Bill to simplify and streamline the current range of tax credits by replacing them with just two new tax credits, in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report earlier in the week.

People and places. A monthly round-up

    News
  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Rosemary Archer has been named the first director of children's services at Leeds City Council. Ms Archer, currently the council's head of social services, will champion the needs of children, families and carers. She will take up the new post on 1 March.

How do you moo!

    Other
  • Friday, September 20, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Children at Bank Hall Kindergarten in Leyland have been chatting to the cows.

Fears for Sure Start allayed by Blunkett

    News
  • Wednesday, June 8, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The services that local Sure Start programmes offer must not be 'diluted' as children's centres are rolled out across the country, David Blunkett, minister for work and pensions, reminded parents and early years and childcare workers last week.

Breakfast is eaten by 94 per cent of under-fives every day

    News
  • Wednesday, June 8, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Breakfast is eaten by 94 per cent of under-fives every day, and half eat it at nursery at least once a week, a National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) survey of 1,000 parents has found. The favourite breakfast foods were cereal (68 per cent), toast (19 per cent) and fruit (13 per cent). Day nurseries will hold Big Breakfast events this month to support NDNA's healthy eating campaign and celebrate National Sure Start Month.

Young viewers

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Exposure to television is increasing among very young children. Annette Rawstrone hears a consensus from experts about its effects on early development Getting 'square eyes' from watching too much television may just be a prospect that we tease childen with, but excessive viewing can indeed lead to serious developmental problems.

Nurseries share a 'living partnership'

    News
  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Nicole Weinstein Children and staff at a York nursery are learning about the Japanese way of life, following a visit by the nursery manager to the Far Eastern country. Sue Maughan Brown from Acorn Nursery School in York, one of a chain of six Kaleidoscope nurseries in Yorkshire, visited Doshisha Kindergarten School in Kyoto, south of Tokyo.

A town's generation tracked by doctors

    News
  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The lives of more than 10,000 babies born in Bradford over the next three years will be tracked by medical researchers in one of the world's biggest longitudinal studies of child health. The Born in Bradford study will piece together a picture of each child's genes, diet, lifestyle, schooling, home neighbourhood and upbringing.

The Learning Tree

    News
  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
* Sarah and Steve Garside from Blackpool are opening their second nursery, located at Whitehill's Business Park in Flyde. The Learning Tree will provide nursery and after-school care for more than 100 children up to the age of eight, and offer dance and music classes and an early introduction to foreign languages. The couple already operate Mary Poppins Nursery in Cleveleys.

Stage Directions

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Use these guidelines to ensure that you are making the most of your early years drama sessions If you are now feeling confident enough to venture into providing drama, then take the following strategies into account when planning your sessions:

MMR review argues against single jabs

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A review of all the scientific research to date on the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine shows that there is no case for introducing the vaccines in single doses, according to the authors. Professor David Elliman, of St George's Hospital, London, and Dr Helen Bedford, of the Institute of Child Health, published their review in the British Medical Journal's specialist publication Archives of Disease in Childhood in September and concluded that worries over the controversial MMR are unjustified.

All washed out

    News
  • Wednesday, January 4, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A common developmental hazard can be avoided by changing a child's diet, says Jackie Cosh British children have been found to be among the most iron-deficient in Europe. A ten-year study in Bradford noting children's iron levels at routine developmental checks found that up to one-third of babies aged seven months were anaemic. Another study found that more than half of inner-city pre-school children were anaemic, almost as high a rate as in some developing countries.

In brief...Every baby in Wales is to be

    News
  • Wednesday, November 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Every baby in Wales is to be given a book by their health visitor in their first few months of life, following the release of 400,000 in extra funding for the Bookstart project. Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, revealed the plan at Cardiff Central Library last week as she met parents and babies participating in the programme. The money comes from the National Basic Skills Strategy for Wales which is administered by the Basic Skills Agency, and whose director Alan Wells said, 'This is the kind of innovative project that can really make a difference to improving the basic skills of the people of Wales long-term.'

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