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Safety First

    Other
  • Monday, September 18, 2017
    • | Nursery World
Pre-school children at Silvertrees Treetops Nursery in Derby have been learning about the importance of risk assessments.

By numbers

    News
  • Wednesday, November 5, 2003
    • | Nursery World
What are the largest nursery chains in the UK up to? Catherine Gaunt on who did what in the past six months When the last issue of Nursery Chains was published in June the same names remained in the top 20 for the first time since we compiled our league table in summer 2001.

Andi Rossi

    News
  • Wednesday, November 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Andi Rossi, a student at South Lanarkshire College, gets to grips with puppets at the Child's Play International stand at the Early Years and Primary Teaching Exhibition, held at the SECC in Glasgow on 14 and 15 November and sponsored by Nursery World Scotland. Visitors had a chance to look round more than 50 stands and attend a range of seminars from leading educational consultants. For the first time this year's event also included a special educational needs conference, organised by the National Association for Special Educational Needs. including subjects on nursery education, outdoor play and child behaviour

Politicians picnic to end poverty

    News
  • Friday, August 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Nursery children picnicked with two cabinet leaders last week to highlight the role of childcare in combating child poverty.

Tigger and Winnie visit Magic Roundabout Nursery

    News
  • Friday, August 10, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Tigger and Winnie the Pooh paid a visit to the Magic Roundabout Nursery in Binfield, south London, to help the nursery raise over 400 for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, while the children also dressed up as Disney characters, took part in waddling through colourful paint, made pancakes with honey and decorated a huge papier-mache Winnie the Pooh.

The big picture: A pirate's life

    News
  • Sunday, September 20, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Pirate's Quest in Newquay, Cornwall is offering daily 'toddler tours', specially designed to keep pre-school children entertained, alongside their existing interactive walking tour.

First-Aid Award

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  • Monday, February 19, 2018
    • | Nursery World
Children’s Choice Nursery in Monkseaton, North Tyneside has received the Millie’s Mark award.

Crafty thinking

    News
  • Wednesday, November 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
If your fingers are still itching to do arts and crafts after our activities feature (see page 12), look up the website www.docrafts.co.uk or get the first issue of Docrafts magazine. It's packed with ideas for making cards and gifts, livening up your wardrobe, and doing creative activities with children. You can find out where to get the materials locally from the website or from Design Objectives on 01202 679 976.

Bosses' bonus

    News
  • Wednesday, November 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Canny nannies could also save their employers some money, the payroll service Nannytax informs us. Parents who use Nannytax are entitled to bonuses of up to 825 from the Government thanks to an Inland Revenue incentive to encourage the use of Electronic Data Interchange, whereby small employers file their staff tax data by computer rather than paperwork. All nannies have to do then is encourage their employers to share some of the bonus with them! Look out for the annual UK-wide nanny pay survey compiled by Nannytax in January's issue of Professional Nanny.

Tell us your thoughts!

    News
  • Friday, February 26, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Our Business Costs survey seeking to find out how settings are coping with cost challenges: from the National Living Wage this April through to the funded entitlement for 3/4 year olds (and the planned increase from 15 to 30 hours next year).

Busy Bees deal 'landmark'

    News
  • Wednesday, August 22, 2007
    • | Nursery World
The acquisition of 88 Leapfrog nurseries by Busy Bees and its parent company, ABC Learning centres, marks a 'significant landmark' on the road to a nationally recognised daycare brand, a leading childcare economist said last week.

Merry makings

    News
  • Wednesday, November 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Children will love giving as well as receiving as they get their hands on these Christmas craft ideas from Hilary White Christmas brings more possibilities for making things than perhaps any other time of year. Try the following ideas with the children in your care and channel their excitement into creative production as they count down to the big day.

Class act

    News
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Teacher training is now available in school classrooms and on the trainees' home turf. Carlene Hutchinson-Norris reports

Rise in popularity of after-school nannies

    News
  • Friday, February 26, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Hiring a live-in nanny is ‘considerably cheaper’ than employing a nanny who lives outside the family home, although demand for live-in nannies is falling, a new survey finds.

Early years left out of help for housing

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses and other early years staff working for local authorities do not appear on the Government's list of key public service workers eligible for its 5bn affordable housing initiative in England. The key worker programme, which succeeds the Starter Home initiative from 1 April next year, was unveiled last week by deputy prime minister John Prescott. The programme will have four options to help key workers own their own homes, move up the property ladder to buy family homes or rent at affordable levels. A Key Teacher Homebuy will also provide equity loans of between 50,000 and 100,000 to 1,000 teachers about to move into leadership positions in London schools over the next two years.

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