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Fenced in

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
For the children of Cherry Trees Montessori near Wetherby, West Yorkshire, making music, painting murals and hanging out the washing is all in a day's work Last year we focused our developments on the outdoor area. We laid a tarmac surface and created a fence around the patch of land. Although the area is small, we feel we are maximising space and learning opportunities by using the fence to present equipment and activities to children.

Netherlands childcare sector runs into trouble

    News
  • Thursday, March 28, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Demand for childcare in the Netherlands has fallen sharply amid the economic crisis and cuts in childcare tax credits, leading to a huge rise in the number of centres going bankrupt.

Coram Family's Listening to Young Children training and development service

    News
  • Wednesday, June 29, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Coram Family's Listening to Young Children training and development service picked up a prestigious award for its excellence in education and training at the Charity Awards 2005 ceremony in London last week. Beatbullying, a charity dedicated to helping the victims of bullying, won the award in the Children and Young People category.

Best buy

    News
  • Wednesday, September 17, 2003
    • | Nursery World
We have ten sturdy wooden airports made from a combination of plywood and MDF (Hope, 42.95) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked Airport, to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first ten names drawn on 2 October.

Safeguards to ensure that the educational needs of the children

    News
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Safeguards to ensure that the educational needs of the children of asylum seekers will be assessed if a decision on their family's asylum application has not been reached by six months were promised last week by the home secretary, following criticism by MPs and children's charities. David Blunkett said children living in special accommodation centres would be assessed and the local educational provider and the child's parents would decide if it was in the child's best interests to move to a state school.

Bright Horizons acquires kidsunlimited

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  • Thursday, April 11, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Bright Horizons has bought nursery group kidsunlimited for 45m in a move that sees the second largest UK chain add 64 settings and a childcare voucher business.

Criticisms of Piaget's work

    News
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
* Critics of Piaget suggest that since many of his experiments did not relate to children's direct experiences, children were easily misled. This criticism particularly relates to his 'Swiss mountain experiment' that he used to show young children's egocentrism. In this experiment, children looked and could even walk around a model of three mountains where a doll was placed in different locations. Children were shown pictures of different views for the model and then were asked to choose the view that the doll would see. Critics suggest that the task itself was flawed, as it was complicated and thus not a reliable indicator of children's real abilities. Piaget is also criticised for the way in which he focused particularly on what children cannot do, rather than consider what children are able to achieve.

Noticeboard

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  • Wednesday, May 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Do you have a story to tell? Share it with us at news.nw@haymarket.com.

Play and display

    News
  • Wednesday, February 21, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A former nanny tells how she applied her experience and training to the hard business of play Back when I was being advised on choosing a name for my business, I was told the name should explain what I did. So when I heard about 'Happy Faces', a group for the under-fives in Peterborough, I wondered why that name was not more specific. What would the children be doing? Would they be singing, bouncing, painting? Would it be fun? Would it be educational? In fact, the name describes the effect on the children and adults who take part in the activities. They all have very happy faces.

All about me

    Features
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Let children take home an electronic book to reinforce learning and hold on to memories, says Veronica Carter Last summer, as a parting gift to the children in my reception class, known as Pandas, I gave each of them a CD-Rom containing a simple electronic book which we had made. It was a memorable gift that provided plenty of learning for both the children and myself.

Deprivation affects us all

    News
  • Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Pat Wills, headteacher at Claremont Primary School in Blackpool and national chair of Early Education I am a wholehearted supporter of the Government's campaign to break the cycle of deprivation and poverty. I recognise that it will be a long, slow process and will take time and maybe several generations. However, last Thursday I had to deal with a tragedy that no family, school or community should have to deal with. It concerned a family with seven children who had moved into the area three years ago and who have been living in overcrowded accommodation.

Brick by brick

    News
  • Wednesday, September 7, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The decision to close the old Falkirk Police Station and build a new one triggered a two-year project for the children at Wellside Kindergarten, as its staff explain In July 2003, the decision was made to close our local police station in Falkirk and build a modern one and, in consultation with staff, we decided to look at ways to involve the whole nursery in the new building project.

Nice little earners

    News
  • Wednesday, June 22, 2005
    • | Nursery World
As long as it does not interfere with your childcare duties, why not go for extra cash? Jasmine Birtles counts the ways Isn't it strange that however much you earn, it never quite lasts until the end of the month? Many people need to earn 'a bit on the side' to pay for extras or just to pay off debts.

Glass act

    News
  • Wednesday, June 22, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Let the light shine through children's artwork with these home displays from Hilary White Window panes make a great backdrop to display certain kinds of children's artwork. Now that summer is finally here, the sunshine will stream through their works of art, making the colours glow.

Makaton signing

    News
  • Wednesday, October 16, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Makaton signing is fun for all the children at Frant Nursery School in Frant, East Sussex, where the group includes two four-year-olds who have severe delays in speech development and mobility. Tracey Howes, chair of the village nursery, has taught the children signing and is now training the parents too. She said it has had an 'enormous' impact on the children - 'and all of it good'. The special needs children will be going on to the local infant school.

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