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Lecturer heads up SINA training

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The recently re-launched Scottish Independent Nurseries Association has appointed early years lecturer and Nursery World contributor Alice Sharp to deliver work-based training from its new base in Glasgow. One of Ms Sharp's first tasks will be to steer the organisation through the process of being accredited by the Scottish Qualifications Authority to deliver SVQ training in early years care and education. The training will be co-ordinated from SINA's headquarters and will be open to practitioners in local authority nurseries and the voluntary sector as well as staff from independent nurseries.

In brief...The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill, which created the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care which is to take over responsibility for all daycare services from local authorities, received Royal Assent last week and officially became an Act. The new law also creates the Scottish Social Services Council, which will regulate the care workforce in Scotland, including nursery nurses, childminders and other childcarers. Welcoming the Act's Royal Assent, deputy health and community care minister Malcolm Chisholm said that it would ensure Scotland's children received care delivered to nationally-agreed standards.

My Best course - Rating the environment

    Features
  • Monday, October 20, 2014
    • | Nursery World
A course using the US-devised Environment Rating Scales for quality prompted Priya Dhanda, deputy manager of LEYF's Noah's Ark in Tower Hamlets, to reorganise her setting.

In brief...RAF nursery

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
An RAF nursery is holding an open day and summer fair on 21 July to celebrate the opening of its new extension. Teresa Hake, manager of RAF Coningsby Nursery Centre in Tattershall, Lincolnshire, said, 'We are a self-funding charity, and although the nursery is on Crown immunity land, it is outside the RAF station grounds. The RAF gave us the building and built the extension for us. The nursery caters not only for the children of RAF families but also for local children.' For details ring 01526 344 325.

Your questions answered

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
What courses do I need? 'I have an NVQ level 2 in Childcare and Education, and am working as a nursery assistant in a private nursery. I am interested in becoming a classroom assistant in a primary school, but don't know how to proceed. Are there courses I should attend?'

New rung on career ladder for assistants

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A work-based qualification for teaching assistants is under development and will be available by next year. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has designed a series of national occupational standards for teaching assistants working with children aged five to 14, which are currently being finalised and will be posted on the QCA's website this autumn. Schools can then begin to use them for internal performance appraisal and for drawing up job descriptions.

Good practice tips

    News
  • Wednesday, July 11, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Celebrate the individuality of young children's achievements with the following ideas: * It has long been the tradition for a child to have his or her own peg at nursery. Offer children a special place of their own as well. It may be a shelf area or a box to hide 'treasure', gather interesting items or keep home toys in. This is an ideal way to allow children to develop their imagination and feel important. I have watched two-year-olds share items from inside their boxes with friends and three-year-olds 'trade' from their boxes.

The first lesson of business

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Helen Kewley of Nice Nannies Now in Huntingdon recalls learning something the hard way. 'I shall never forget the very first nanny I ever recruited. My agency had just opened. I was optimistic, confident and rather naive. I had placed ads in local papers and the first person to reply was Caroline (not her real name). On the phone she sounded very promising. At the interview she shone. Although she was not qualified, she had a sheaf of references showing lots of experience. Her eye contact was good, and she was smiling and enthusiastic. If she had a problem, she said, it was that she found it hard to say "no" and ended up doing more than she should. Her current job was not working out well, as the parents were going through an acrimonious divorce. The other local agency that had got her the job was not being supportive.

Cut it out

    News
  • Wednesday, May 23, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Your boss may cut corners in your employment to save money - but it only creates pitfalls, says Stephen Vahrman When parents employ you as a nanny there are two practical issues they will immediately have to face. The first is the cost of your employment - which comes out of their own pocket, and which is considerably greater than the net (take-home) pay they may have agreed with you at your interview. There is no doubt that this can be a strain on many parents' personal finances. The second issue is the responsibility they face as an employer to administer a PAYE scheme on your behalf and pay tax and National Insurance (NI) contributions to the Inland Revenue, as well as providing you with regular payslips showing these deductions and various other forms, such as a P45 when you leave and your P60 annual summary of earnings.

Hop Along

    Other
  • Monday, May 14, 2018
    • | Nursery World
While children at Springfield Nursery in Barnstaple were out investigating their bug hotel they found a small frog.

Hands and voices

    Other
  • Friday, September 20, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries across the country are being invited to join in a world record attempt for the most people signing and singing on the same day.

Creches win star ratings

    News
  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The mobile creche company Nipperbout is celebrating gaining its third outstanding rating from Ofsted, after campaigning for more flexibility in inspection arrangements for mobile childcare facilities. Owners Janthea and Steve Bridgen, with the help of their local MP John Bercow, successfully lobbied the Government and the DfES for a more flexible approach to registration and inspection criteria to take into account the nature of mobile childcare services.

Water play: rain

    News
  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Young children love to play outside and for many, this is an important place for learning. In order to benefit fully from the outdoors, children need long periods of time outside every day all through the year. Jan White takes a month-by-month look at how you can make the most of your outdoor provision. This month: how you can turn rain into a valued resource as part of your provision for year-round water play.

Jo Louttit

    News
  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Name: Jo Louttit Age: 38 Job title: Team leader for nursery at Butlins Location: Bognor Regis, Sussex Duties

Assembly debate on children's rights

    News
  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The appointment of a children's commissioner to represent Northern Ireland's 500,000 children and young people came a step closer following a lengthy debate in the country's Assembly last week. The debate was opened by Democratic Unionist Party member Edwin Poots, who is chair of the committee for the children's commissioner. He described the initial announcement in January of the intention to appoint a commissioner as 'a step towards ensuring that our children can grow up in a society, safe from exploitation and abuse, where their rights are protected and where their needs are met'.

Excellence in Childcare awards ceremony

    News
  • Wednesday, July 4, 2001
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Kellie-Ann Fitzgerald (centre) was named Playworker of the Year at the Kids' Clubs Network's annual Excellence in Childcare awards ceremony in London last week. She received her award from Linda Robson, star of the BBC comedy series 'Birds of a Feather', and Stuart Hayward of sponsors JMC, the holiday operators. Kellie-Ann, who runs the Cuddles Eager Beavers out-of-school club in the London borough of Walthamstow, was described by the parent who nominated her as a 'fine ambassador for childcare services', gifted with 'considerable kindness and generosity of spirit'. The Latchkey Project at Balham Family Centre in London won the award for Best Out-of-School Club, praised for offering a caring, sharing environment and a timetable packed with well-thought-out activities, down to a Hallowe'en sleepover for which staff give up their weekend. Rollercoasters Playcentre in Camden, London, which offers a service for children with disabilities and complex needs, won the Most Creative Activity Programme award for its art exhibition 'A Sense of Movement', showcasing the children's work. The Prima Childcarer of the Year was Samantha Morris, a classroom support worker at Ammansford Infants School in Carmarthenshire.

Reader offer

    News
  • Wednesday, January 24, 2007
    • | Nursery World
We have five copies of Let's Pretend Maths by Helen Williams (BEAM Education, 29.50, tel: 01242 267 945, www.beam.co.uk) to give away to Nursery World readers. Send your name and address on the back of a postcard or envelope, marked 'Let's Pretend Maths', to the address on page 3. Winners will be the first five names drawn on 8 February 2007.

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