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Drive time

    News
  • Wednesday, March 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
On top of safety issues, driving a car on a nanny job involves some tricky questions of cost, considered by Lindsey Blythe Does a car automatically go with a nannying job today? Is it seen as an essential tool of the trade, or a liability?

On a High

    Other
  • Monday, January 21, 2019
    • | Nursery World
Children at Pebbles Childcare in Worthing used their new action camera to photograph the views and wild horses they found on their nature walk exploring nearby Cissbury Ring.

Working for Families Fund

    News
  • Wednesday, March 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Unemployed parents will be helped to access jobs and training through a Working for Families Fund set up by East Ayrshire Council in conjunction with the Scottish Executive. A new team will help families find childcare and aim to raise the number of parents in work to 70 per cent by 2010.

Nurseries look overseas for recruits

    News
  • Monday, October 17, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Nursery owners are seeking opportunities to recruit from abroad as a result of the difficulties attracting staff with the required GCSEs, but uncertainty remains over how to attract and retain EU workers in light of Brexit.

Photo of the Week - Wetherby Day Nursery

    News
  • Tuesday, September 7, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Three-year-old Thomas Thewenetti enjoys having a ride on Toby the Pony at Wetherby Day Nursery's School Leavers' Party last month at the Yorkshire nursery.

Be my baby at exhibition to experience early life

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Parents and professionals can view the world through the eyes of a baby at a new interactive exhibition. The World of Babies, which opened in London last week and will be touring major UK cities over the next three months, has been developed by nappy manufacturers Pampers to help give parents a better understanding of the different stages of their child's development.

ADHD 'can be diagnosed in minutes'

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A simple ten-minute eye test can be used to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in pre-school children with 93 per cent accuracy, say scientists from Brunel University. During the study, researchers asked 64 four- to six-year-olds to follow the movement of a spot of light on a computer screen. They found that children with ADHD displayed erratic patterns of eye movement.

1m encourages talking to children

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Parents are being encouraged to talk, count and sing to their young children with the launch of a 1m advertising campaign by the Welsh Assembly. The move follows a survey of headteachers in Wales undertaken in 2002 which found that an increasing number of children were starting school without the appropriate speaking and listening skills needed for learning.

Ask the expert

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Educational therapist Andrea Clifford Poston answers your queries about child behaviour Q

Strategy 'should help stay-at-home parents'

    News
  • Wednesday, March 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Government's ten-year strategy for childcare does not do enough to support parents who want to stay at home to look after their children, say respondents to the consultation on the strategy. An overview of 75 written responses to the consultation on Choice for parents, the best start for children: a ten-year strategy for childcare, published by the Treasury last week, reveals that a 'significant section'

The truth will out

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
'Please do not promote or advertise anything but the good work we do,' pleads Melanie Robinson (Letters, 13 January). Surely such a demand does more to support the unfounded fears that are stirred up by tabloid television, than the publication of an advertisement asking for salacious childcare revelations?

Picturesque playground

    News
  • Wednesday, February 2, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Playground Pictures are a comparatively new product from LDA. They are brightly coloured, external wall fixtures which can be glued, screwed or nailed to walls and are designed to complement work done in the classroom. There are four sets in the range. Flower Power (110) consists of 32 flowers in five colours, covering graphemes sh, ch, th, wh, ph and qu.

Profit and scruples

    News
  • Wednesday, March 23, 2005
    • | Nursery World
I would like to advise Jan Jeffery (Letters, 10 March) to re-read my letter (24 February). At no point did I claim that all private day nurseries exist purely as profit-making machines. However, we must acknowledge that such settings do exist.

A parent's guide to creative development

    News
  • Wednesday, August 14, 2002
    • | Nursery World
You may well be used to collecting your child from nursery or school and being passed a sticky and drippy work of art, but are you aware of the hidden skills that your child has gained? The Foundation Stage curriculum, which most children in England are following until they finish the reception year, has a section just about creative development. It is seen as an essential part of a child's experience in their early years education, for many reasons. First, it helps children to express themselves in a variety of ways, for example through paint, music and dough modelling. It also allows children to grow in confidence as they set their own challenges and learn how to do things for themselves.

Games & puzzles

    News
  • Wednesday, January 26, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A round-up of books, posters, games, puzzles, gardening kits and other resources to help you get the most out of a topic on growth * Lift and look fruit/vegetable puzzles - two sets of three lift-out wooden puzzles. When the pieces are lifted out, the corresponding fruit or vegetable is shown cut in half or in slices underneath (GLS, 19.95, tel: 0800 9172246, www. glsed.co.uk).

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Supporting ... May

    Features
  • Monday, June 13, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A nursery that said 'no problem' when a mother sought a place for her brain-damaged child has made all the difference to the family, says Sue Learner - and the staff and children have benefited too.

Parents in Aberdeen are to be helped to take up training

    News
  • Wednesday, July 12, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Parents in Aberdeen are to be helped to take up training, employment or further education by a project called Working for Families, part of an initiative funded by the Scottish Executive to assist parents in ten local authority areas across Scotland. Aberdeen has been awarded a grant of 450,000 for support targeted at parents on low incomes, single parents and those having domestic difficulties.

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