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    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
To deliver the Foundation Stage curriculum effectively, practitioners need to consider three levels of planning: * long-term plans, which chart the learning opportunities that will be offered through continuous and permanent provision

Puffins Childcare Centres

    News
  • Wednesday, February 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Puffins Childcare Centres is celebrating being re-recognised under the Investor in People scheme, which the company has held since 1996. The IiP's assessor said, 'Puffins demonstrated quite clearly and without any doubt that it continues to satisfy the national standard. Puffins' owners, Maureen Guard and Rosalind Taylor, said they were 'delighted' by this endorsement of their commitment to staff development at their nurseries in Exeter and Torbay. They added that they believe staff development to be 'the most effective way to maintain the quality of care received by the children, which provided staff with professional development opportunities'. The IiP award is based on four key principles for people development.

Appeal by 'Blue Peter' to help set up breakfast clubs

    News
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2008
    • | Nursery World
A new appeal by the BBC children's programme 'Blue Peter' is aiming to help set up breakfast clubs in the UK as well as in Bangladesh, Colombia and South Africa. 'Blue Peter' editor Tim Levell said, 'We hope that Mission Nutrition will present a real opportunity for children to understand more about food - where it comes from, how to grow their own, what is healthy and what the challenges are to eating well for children around the world. We want to put two million meals on plates.' More information is available at www.missionnutrition.org.uk.

Donna Agnew, age 21, of Kilrea, Co Londonderry

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Donna Agnew, age 21, of Kilrea, Co Londonderry, is this year's winner of the Causeway Institute of Further and Higher Education's Early Years Cup, sponsored by Nursery World. Donna, a BTec National Diploma student in childhood studies at the Institute's Ballymoney campus, achieved distinctions in all units and works as a classroom assistant in Kilrea Primary School. She celebrated with course tutor Norma McKinney (centre) and Aine Lynch, course co-ordinator and head of health, social care and catering.

Reception staff in redundancy fight

    News
  • Wednesday, February 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses working in reception classes have mounted a campaign to fight their local authority's plans to make them redundant. A consultation paper sent to headteachers in the London borough of Hounslow in the last week of January put forward proposals to cut the budget for reception units by 990,000 and fund reception at the same rate as year one. In practice this would require the withdrawal of nursery nurses from early years teams and affect 97 nursery nurse jobs. The consultation period ends on 15 February.

Case study: Freshfield Nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, April 13, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The manager of Freshfield Nursery, Mrs Quinton, heard one four-year-old child refer to rice at lunchtime as 'chinky food'. Although she was already developing a strategy for equality in the nursery, this incident made her rethink her work on food. She decided to visit two local shops that sell foods different from each other - one owned by Mrs Elliott and the other by Mr Shah - hoping that the experience would enable the children, from various ethnic backgrounds, to understand each other's lives better.

Nursery rhymes

    News
  • Tuesday, March 1, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A survey by children's communication charity I CAN found that 83 per cent of the 2,000 parents surveyed agreed that nursery rhymes are important as they are passed down the generations, as did 96 per cent of the 1,000 grandparents who were questioned.

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