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Business Development - Proper placement

    Features
  • Monday, July 13, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Modern qualifications allocate hundreds of hours to placements, but how useful are they to managers? Jackie Musgrave and Nicola Stobbs, authors of a book looking at early years placements, explain.

Improve score on playing fields Government told

    News
  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Government has been challenged to improve on its record on the sale of the UK's school playing fields and children's play areas in its second term of office. The challenge was made last week by the independent charity the National Playing Fields Association (NPFA). It said that statistics published at the end of Labour's first term in office showed that out of 164 applications to dispose of school playing fields, just five were turned down by former education secretary David Blunkett, then responsible for playing fields, a role now taken by Baroness Ashton.

Term-time places tempt working parents

    News
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A private day nursery in Sheffield has embarked on what could be a growing trend in provision with the introduction of term-time-only places. Sunflower Children's Centre in Gleadless is offering the term-time-only service for parents looking for more flexible childcare. So far, a quarter of the nursery's 64 places have been taken on a term-time basis.

Another country

    News
  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years workers have an important role to play in the lives of refugee children from traumatised families.Wendy Wallace reports. Little Ayak was at home with her mother in southern Sudan when government soldiers came to take away her father, who was a teacher, accusing him of involvement with the rebel army. Her mother and the children fled for their lives. They went on foot, walking by night and eating wild foods on the way, to a neighbouring country. There, relatives helped them get a flight to England, where they applied for asylum. Now Ayak, aged five, lives with her mother and three brothers and sisters in the London borough of Haringey. Separated from their wider family, grieving for their missing father, the family lives on little money in a tiny rented flat while waiting to hear their fate from the Home Office.

Childcarers line up for Sure Start celebration

    News
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The fourth National Sure Start Month kicks off this week on 2 June. This year's theme is 'Your Children, Your Choice' and it is being co-ordinated by the Pre-school Learning Alliance (PLA). Celebrations will begin with an official launch party at London Zoo for families and early years and childcare workers. Thousands of local events will then take place across England. Last year more than 700,000 parents took part in over 5,000 events.

Jamie Oliver's 'Feed Me Better' campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
* Jamie Oliver's 'Feed Me Better' campaign has produced a double DVD of the hugely successful TV series, Jamie's School Dinners. Disc 1 contains the four TV episodes with an expletive-free option so the DVD can be played to children. Disc 2 has exclusive extras including a seasonal fruit and vegetable calendar, classroom activities, a food diary, a sample recipe, and Jamie's top tips on getting children to try new foods. The DVD costs Pounds 15.99 and is available in shops from 16 June.

Interest shown in academies

    News
  • Tuesday, June 8, 2010
    • | Nursery World
More than 1,000 schools have applied to become academies following the Department for Education's plan to expand the scheme.

Teaching peace

    News
  • Wednesday, June 1, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Young Palestinians and Israelis are learning to live together in this unique setting, writes Eve Menezes Cunningham It may be difficult to imagine surviving day to day in occupied Palestine, but the staff at Hope Flowers Kindergarten and School are doing more than just surviving by refusing to give up their visions of peace, democracy and hope for their country. They provide a sanctuary as well as education for the children in their care.

Nursery places shut to refugee children

    News
  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Children of asylum-seekers and refugees are missing out on nursery places which could provide opportunities to settle in, feel safe and play which are unavailable in their home environments. School places for asylum-seekers in Glasgow, which now has more than 600 such children in its schools, are funded through a contract between Glasgow City Council and the National Asylum Support Service, the arm of the Home Office which deals with asylum-seekers. But the contract covers only school provision and does not supply funding for the under-fives.

Making space for play

    Opinion
  • Monday, July 27, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Professor Cathy Nutbrown shows why, in the words of Comenius and Confucius, 'it is better to play than do nothing'.

Councils learn of Sure Start allocations

    News
  • Wednesday, December 14, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Sure Start budgets were revealed last week in the local authority children's services funding for 2006 to 2008. Sure Start local programme funding has been rolled into the General Sure Start Grant (GSSG) from 2006/2007, which will also include funding for workforce transformation during this period.

Open day

    Other
  • Friday, September 6, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Happy Child in Mottingham held an open day with lucky dips, a fortune-teller and a coconut shy.

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