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Happy to say

    News
  • Wednesday, December 8, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Children with speech and hearing difficulties are put on the right course by the detective work done by professionals at a leading centre. Olivia Silverwood-Cope reports Two-and-a-half-year-old Peter says 'Roundy round' as he lavishes yellow paint on his easel in flamboyant loops. 'Round and round, the circle is round!' says Sheba Kraines, head nursery teacher working with him in this morning session.

Breakfast clubs fight for survival

    News
  • Wednesday, June 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Out-of-school clubs in Fife are struggling to make breakfast provision viable, according to a review by Fife Council. Based on interviews with 49 clubs in the region, the council found that many breakfast clubs 'struggled' with very low uptake and high operating costs. Use was as low as two to three children in some clubs that had a registered capacity for ten times that amount.

Computers and road safety high in child profile

    News
  • Wednesday, August 7, 2002
    • | Nursery World
A majority of children in the UK have access to a home computer, spend an average of 12.30 a week and walk to school, according to a statistical picture of children drawn by a report from the Office for National Statistics. The report, Social Focus in Brief: Children 2002, published last week, looks at recent trends in the four key areas of social circumstances, education, health and lifestyle. It found that there were 12.1 million children aged under 16 in the UK in 2000 - 6.2 million boys and 5.9 million girls. About one in five (20 per cent) children in Britain lived in lone parent families in 2001, compared with 12 per cent 20 years earlier.

About this series

    News
  • Wednesday, June 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
'A schema is a pattern of repeated actions. Clusters of schemas develop into later concepts.' (Chris Athey, 2003) These articles have been written by the Pen Green Team as a result of monthly seminars with Chris Athey, during which individual children's learning is reflected on and discussed at length. The articles are a brief introduction to schemas, which are just one lens through which children's development and learning can be viewed.

Get it straight

    News
  • Wednesday, June 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Everything connects as one child works out his fascination with lines, observed by the Pen Green Centre team in dialogue with Chris Athey Jack started at nursery when he was three years old. His family worker, Michelle, noted that he spent hours with the train set using trajectory, line and connection schemas.

Nursery activities

    News
  • Wednesday, June 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum

Some staff excused from CRB checks

    News
  • Wednesday, August 7, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff in England who have had police checks within the past three years do not need to apply to Ofsted for a Disclosure check by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) when starting a new job at another day nursery, according to guidance published by Ofsted last week. Ofsted, whose Early Years Directorate oversees all registered childcare in England, has produced the guidance, Building better childcare: Criminal Records Bureau - What you need to know, following anger in the early years sector over long delays in the processing of Disclosure applications by the Bureau and confusion about the procedure for filling in the forms. Last month nurseries reported delays of around 18 weeks in the processing of Disclosure applications by the CRB (News, 25 July).

Splashing at the bear hunt

    News
  • Wednesday, May 7, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Children from Granby House Nursery in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, make a splash in nearby Langold Woods while going on the proverbial bear hunt with staff.

How to defend the value of an NNEB

    News
  • Wednesday, June 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I became an NNEB-qualified nursery nurse in 1982. However, recently my employers became concerned that my qualifications were no longer valid, and said that as a result I would not be able to continue in my post as deputy supervisor of a pre-school. However, I found the letter by Richard Dorrance, chief executive of the Council for Awards in Children's Care and Education (Letters, 11 March) to be very useful regarding this situation. I contacted Mr Dorrance directly to explain and he could not have been more helpful.

Who works in childcare?

    Opinion
  • Thursday, March 29, 2018
    • | Nursery World
We need working conditions in the childcare sector to improve, for both staff and the children they care for, says Professor Helen Penn

Glasgow strike ends on bitter note

    News
  • Wednesday, June 9, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The long-running nursery nurses strike in Glasgow  ended bitterly last week, with strikers accusing the council of 'bullying them back to work'.

Full of surprises

    News
  • Wednesday, August 7, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Use a popular children's story to explore the delights of all kinds of fruit with these activity ideas from Sue Sheppy Adult-led activities.

Target for reducing child poverty impossible to meet

    News
  • Tuesday, May 12, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The target for reducing child poverty by half by 2010 will be almost impossible to meet, Department of Work and Pensions figures reveal, as the number of children living in poverty remains unchanged from last year, at 2.9 million.

Some staff excused from CRB checks

    News
  • Tuesday, August 6, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff in England who have had police checks within the past three years do not need to apply to Ofsted for a Disclosure check by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) when starting a new job at another day nursery, according to guidance published by Ofsted last week.

Project outline

    News
  • Wednesday, June 9, 2004
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum

SATs squashes soul out of teaching

    News
  • Wednesday, June 9, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Having gained a degree in Early Childhood Studies and spent time in Sweden observing their educational system, I undertook a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE). I have been a Reception teacher for the past three years and although I am confident and highly principled, I still find the top down pressure from SATs frustrating and soul destroying. The PGCE was a total contradiction of my degree. It was more concerned with 'what and when' to teach as opposed to how children learn and creating an effective learning environment.

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