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Early Years Pioneers: Jean Piaget

    Features
  • Wednesday, January 18, 2006
    • | Nursery World
We owe much of our awareness of children's cognitive development to Jean Piaget, who encouraged learning through exploration, explains Professor Tricia David

At the sharp end

    News
  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
What's behind all the fuss about MMR? Penny Vevers looks at the views of medical experts on both sides of the controversy Prime minister Tony Blair's refusal to disclose whether his son Leo had had the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination, on the grounds of family privacy, only served to fuel other parents' worries and incur media wrath. Suddenly, from an apparently isolated stance opposing MMR for its links suggested by research to bowel disease and autism, the vaccine's critics found their fears given more credence.

Free magazines

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I want to offer parts of my collection of Nursery World magazines free to any readers who feel they can give them a good home. I only ask for a refund of the postage after they have received them. Anyone interested can contact me by phone 020 8352 2481, e-mail at misrahi.intersect@cableinet.co.uk or write to me at the address below. Bernard Misrahi, 15 Gospatrick Road, London N17 7EH

Art collection

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Look closely at the art area in your setting to check that you are providing the essential resources children need, organised in a way that children can freely access them The pleasure and learning to be derived from an art area will be all the greater for children if the area is well organised and well resourced and they are allowed to work independently.

Let's dance

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Scottish Ballet is taking the magic of dance to the classroom in its workshops based on The Snowman, writes Joyce Reid Five-year-old Maxi Rafferty has seen the film The Snowman and she also has ballet lessons. But after her morning with the Scottish Ballet, learning some steps to the ballet version of the story, she says it is 'different'. 'I liked the wiggle best,' she adds.

In brief...Peter Housden

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Peter Housden has been appointed head of the Department for Education and Skills' schools directorate, which is responsible for the development and implementation of Government policy on the early years, childcare and schools in England. Mr Housden, 50, is a former secondary school teacher and former chief executive of Nottinghamshire County Council. He will be one of the key policy advisers to Estelle Morris, education and skills secretary.

In brief...The National Children's Bureau in Northern Ireland

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The National Children's Bureau has appointed a research officer in Northern Ireland to explore why a high proportion of children with parents from mixed-community backgrounds end up in public care and how the needs of these children and their families can be met. Berni Kelly, a qualified social worker who is the NCB's co-ordinator in Northern Ireland, will lead the study, which builds on previous NCB studies which found that children with parents from the same community are less likely to be in care.

Time to act on child abuse

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  • Wednesday, March 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Mary Marsh, director and chief executive of the National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) Awareness of child abuse is at an all-time high. But we must move from awareness to action if we are to protect the hidden victims of abuse.

Summer dips

    Features
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Emma Comer and Meg Smith of Tall Trees Kindergarten dip into new tastes and textures

Testing times

    News
  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
How are the new LSCs shaping up? Childcare training providers tell Mary Evans how they see their position Early years training providers are preparing for the toughest test yet of the new Learning and Skills Council (LSC), which took over responsibility in April for all post-16 education in England outside the university sector.

A sick approach to other people's health

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  • Wednesday, August 8, 2001
    • | Nursery World
How do other Nursery World readers deal with parents who insist on bringing their obviously ill child into nursery? I cannot understand how they can stand at the nursery door and say that their child 'really wanted to come', when the poor child is very pale, has bright red eyes and is crying. I do understand that working parents rely on childcare and may not have access to other people to help look after a sick child, but what do they plan on doing once the child starts school and is automatically sent home when ill?

Nursery world e-mail bulletin

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  • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
    • | Nursery World
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Hardworking practitioners enjoy a Slumber Stories workshop

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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Hardworking practitioners enjoy a Slumber Stories workshop run by Moyra Boland at the Glasgow Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition on 19-20 November, sponsored by Nursery World Scotland. The workshop was part of the new Enlighten Zone, offering inspiration for early years staff to invest a little time and energy in themselves with salsa dancing, vocal stress release and massage. Photo Tom Finnie/ATOM

13 sets of twins at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral School in Swansea

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  • Wednesday, February 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Staff are seeing double at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral School in Swansea, where there are 13 pairs of twins. The twins, aged from two to 11, try not to cause double trouble in every class. Six of the sets of twins are identical and their parents help puzzled teachers and classmates by dressing them in different coloured shoes and accessories. Photo: David Marsden/SWNS

All fired up

    News
  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The Forest School ethos focuses on individual effort and achievement but its practice applies across the Foundation Stage and the curriculum Forest Schools are springing up across the UK. In Scotland, 20 early years practitioners have just finished their training to become the first 'leaders' of Scotland's Forest School Network, while Wales has just launched its 300,000 North East Wales Forest School (NEWFS). In England, areas now with Forest Schools include Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Devon, Durham, Yorkshire and Shropshire.

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