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The Letterland way

    News
  • Wednesday, March 8, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Janet Moyles wrote a most informative feature ('Sound effects', 9 February) which I'm sure caused many early years practitioners to reflect on their practice. I am a parent partnership coach, helping education and health professionals to evaluate and build these important partnerships. With regards to reading and, in particular, phonics, I would like to tell you of the excellent partnership work that I have observed in school nursery classes and daycare nurseries that use 'Letterland' as a pre-reading scheme.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
The issue of pay - the low levels - in the early years and childcare sector is never far from the top of people's minds, and, whatever the effect of the Transformation Fund money on salaries, one suspects that this will continue to be the case. In this week's issue, we report on the Scottish Executive findings that private nurseries are having severe difficulties recruiting staff, with vacancies remaining unfilled for long periods because of competition from state settings (see News, page 4) and because they can't meet wage demands.

Childcarers ask for Ofsted partnership

    News
  • Thursday, September 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations and practitioners have broadly welcomed Ofsted's plans for minimal notice inspections, a new grading system and greater reliance on self-evaluation and quality assurance schemes.

Food For The Larder

    Other
  • Monday, November 27, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Children at Kingsdown Nursery School in Lincoln collected food for their local food bank.

Giants, pixies, imps and faeries

    News
  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Giants, pixies, imps and faeries provided an exciting theme for nursery practitioners at 'Faeries and Scaries', a one-day conference in Glasgow. Practitioners took part in six hands-on workshops to explore the importance of a play-enriched 'curriculum' for children aged from nought to five. The conference was organised by Experiential Play, the training arm of the Scottish Independent Nurseries Association. Photo Paul Reid

In brief...Managers of early years

    News
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Managers of early years settings can benefit from five three-day conferences organised by the National Day Nurseries Association. 'Managing Your Childcare Team' will cover how to recruit, induct, develop and retain good quality staff. It is to be held in Preston (5 to 7 March), South Lake District (12 to 14 March), Huddersfield (19 to 21 March), Nottingham (26 to 28 March) and Bristol (28 to 30 March). Admission costs 50 to NDNA members or 100 to non-members. For details or bookings contact Yvonne Thompson on 01908 500511.

Non-fiction books that enhance the teaching and learning curriculum for Scotland's schools

    News
  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Non-fiction books that enhance the teaching and learning curriculum for Scotland's schools could win 500 in a competition for educational publishers organised by the Saltire Society and the Times Educational Supplement Scotland. Books must be relevant to Scottish children aged three to 18, and be published in the past year. For details see www.saltiresociety.org.uk or call 0131 556 1836.

In brief...Registered childminders

    News
  • Wednesday, February 28, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Registered childminders are to help teenage parents in four of the most deprived areas of England. The 3m, three-year Government initiative is in partnership with the National Childminding Association and will take place in North-east Lincolnshire, Blackpool, Barking and Dagenham, and Greenwich. It aims to help teenage mothers to stay in education, training and employment by using NCMA approved childminding networks to provide up to 16 hours of free childcare a week as well as parental support. Employment and equal opportunities minister Margaret Hodge said the aim was to break the cycle of teenage parenthood and a lifelong dependency on benefits.

Let's get real about nappies

    News
  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
By Sonia Fevre, project officer, Women's Environmental Network Imagine a world where babies wear comfy cotton nappies, save their parents money and avoid producing landfill waste from their nappy changes.

Expansion brightens horizons

    News
  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Bright Horizons Family Solutions has moved up to fourth place in the nursery chain league table with the acquisition of two more nursery groups. In June this year Bright Horizons Family Solutions snapped up Child & Co, a chain of nine nurseries with 863 places among them, based in Oxfordshire. Two months later, it bought the Birrell Collection of six nurseries in Edinburgh, acquiring a further 358 places. This puts Bright Horizons at 4,291 places, ahead of Busy Bees, which had 4,075 places in June 2004.

Flu vaccine limited amid controversy

    News
  • Tuesday, August 18, 2009
    • | Nursery World
Healthy children will not be a priority for receiving the first vaccinations against swine flu, which could start as early as October.

Mathematical development

    News
  • Wednesday, January 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Principle Helping children to see themselvesas mathematicians, and developing positive attitudes and dispositions towards their learning (p71)

Fit to govern

    News
  • Wednesday, February 22, 2006
    • | Nursery World
If an academic degree is in your bag of tricks, you could make big money as a governess with a new agency that opened last month, called, what else, The English Governess. The York-based agency will place childcare candidates with expatriate and foreign families around the world to deliver home education and teach the children in English. Founder Catherine Suckling, who has a scholarly and international background herself, says, 'Children taught by a governess over a period of years will generally become completely bilingual.' She's now interviewing for live-in positions paying upwards of 20,000 gross and places a premium on those with music or sports skills. For information see www.englishgoverness.com or phone 01904 651 804.

Our bright idea

    News
  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A grant from the Worcestershire Arts Development Project allowed the children of Broadway Playgroup to create a jungle-themed mosaic We linked up with local community artist Alison Ogle, who suggested the playgroup made a mosaic. The children had been doing work based on Giles Andreae's book, Rumble in the Jungle. They loved the topic so much that we chose the jungle as the mosaic's theme.

You want a smack?

    News
  • Wednesday, January 17, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Government has missed a golden opportunity to send a message to the nation. Ministers have missed the point for, until the law states otherwise, it seems parents are able to smack their children. However, if any of these parents smacked someone else's child they would quite likely be arrested for assault. But if that assault were to go unnoticed and to continue it would be called 'child abuse'. Why then is the Government willing to subject childminders to the possibility of such accusations? We are already more vulnerable to false complaints, as we are working from a home-based environment. Please don't add fuel to the fire by inviting us to smack - we don't want to or need to.

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