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Fit for a queen

    Other
  • Monday, March 24, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Nicholas Allan's book The Queen's Knickers provided children at Magical Tree Nursery in Burnley with the basis for activities.

In brief...Breaking down gender stereotypes

    News
  • Wednesday, December 12, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Breaking down gender stereotypes in jobs and careers is the target of the Equal Opportunities Commission campaign 'What's stopping you?' launched last week in Wales. A resource pack has been prepared for teachers and career advisors as a tool to challenge conventional job directions. EOC Wales director Kate Bennett said, 'Employers are keen to see the Welsh National Assembly and the EOC take a lead in tackling this issue. They want to recruit from a wide pool of women and men, but they can't when choices made at an early age send young people off on traditional career paths.' A similar EOC initiative was launched in England last month (News, 22 November).

Right from the start

    News
  • Wednesday, April 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
This week: Changing faces - a changing mat game to promote emotional well-being Aspect: A Healthy Child Component: Emotional well-being

The Big Picture: Making a splash

    News
  • Monday, June 29, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Award-winning photographer and bestselling author Seth Casteel has released his latest collection of pictures, Underwater Babies.

Style over content

    News
  • Wednesday, April 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
In response to your 'Say no to formal phonics before five' campaign, I am shocked at the idea of teaching all children in one style. We know children are individuals with differing interests and ways of learning new information. Phonics is a good learning tool but it needs to be used alongside the many others available. Rebecca White, by e-mail

Child-centred choice

    News
  • Wednesday, April 26, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I have been reading the debate regarding children under three attending nurseries and feel that the decision should be down to parental choice, taking into account their own child and family's individual needs. While it may be desirable for young children to stay at home with their mothers it is not always practical.

Baby rooms - Still room for improvement?

    Features
  • Monday, June 29, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Good practice begins with babies, but nurseries have historically focused more on older children. Three years on from the Baby Room Project, Hannah Crown asks if anything has changed.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Modern kids appear able to engage and apply technology far more quickly than previous generations. Picking up the skills to become techno-savvy starts at birth' Tom Savigar, on how children intuitively know more about information technology than adults, The Sunday Times

Ask the expert

    News
  • Wednesday, June 15, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Your legal questions answered by Christine Betts, senior lawyer, schools and childcare team, Veale Wasbrough Lawyers Q One of my staff is taking an increasing number of days off work. It tends to be just odd days, but this is causing difficulties in arranging last-minute cover for her and is putting an unfair strain on other staff.

To the point...

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Our weekly columnist Beatrix Campbell says childcarers could learn from the child protection training offered to doctors Doctors sometimes drive childcare professionals crazy. They've got such power, and sometimes seem so reluctant to use it. In the olden days that might have been because while everyone else was going on child protection courses, they didn't.

Before words

    News
  • Wednesday, June 15, 2005
    • | Nursery World
A resource for parents about communicating with babies lets pictures do the talking. Judith Napier reports Handouts full of well-meaning advice too often act as instant turn-offs to the very people they're meant to help. But an innovative information pack designed by Newcastle speech and language therapists proved such a hit that mothers literally picked it up and hugged it.

Meeting the challenge

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
A guide to the new NVQs in Children's Care, Learning and Development Maureen Little, chief external verifier at CACHE, takes a look at the wide range of people who are involved in the assessment process

In brief...Initiatives to encourage

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Initiatives to encourage children to eat more fruit and vegetables are to benefit from a further 52m as part of a drive to prevent cancer and heart disease. The funding over two years comes from the New Opportunities Fund and sees the National School Fruit Scheme in England expand to give more than a million children aged four to six a free piece of fruit daily.

Story corner

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
Imaginative story books that will prompt new thinking in the youngest readers' minds are reviewed by Alison Boyle Ask Me

Award recognises staffing policy

    News
  • Wednesday, June 8, 2005
    • | Nursery World
The Trojans Scheme has been awarded a Daycare Trust Parents' Employer of Choice Award 2005 at a ceremony at 11 Downing Street.

Win a book on transitions

    News
  • Tuesday, May 25, 2010
    • | Nursery World
With a three-part series on transitions beginning in this week's Nursery World, five readers have a chance to win a free copy of Julie Fisher's new book, Moving On to Key Stage 1, published by the Open University Press at 17.99.

Government scraps Child Poverty Act

    News
  • Thursday, July 2, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The existing measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act will be replaced with a new duty to report on worklessness and educational attainment.

Four years or five?

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I'm always devastated when our four-year-olds leave our homely nursery, with child-friendly chairs, tables and toilets and fantastic outdoor play facilities, to be put into uniform and sent to 'big school'. Most schools have large class sizes with a qualified teacher and maybe one or two teaching assistants, but it is not the same as the nursery ratios.

Including allergies

    News
  • Wednesday, January 11, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I cried as I read 'A food limit too far' (Letters, 22 December) because it was condescending and unsympathetic to the plight of children with food allergies. I am a nursery practitioner and the mother of a child with a life-threatening egg allergy. In my world, the simplest things must be scrutinised to keep my child safe. I'm glad that my child's pre-school had more sympathy towards the problems of allergies and coped better than Marcella Cunningham's nursery.

Child tax credits streamlined

    News
  • Wednesday, December 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Government proposals to reform the Working Families Tax Credit, which includes the childcare tax credit that helps parents on low incomes with childcare costs, were revealed last week. Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo published a Bill to simplify and streamline the current range of tax credits by replacing them with just two new tax credits, in the wake of chancellor Gordon Brown's pre-Budget report earlier in the week.

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