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Secret agents

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
  • | Nursery World
Set up a Spy Academy at your after-school club and the children won't want to go home, says Deborah Sharpe. Here she shows what popular games she uses to get the children on the trail of Sylvester Slime, Master Criminal of the underworld... 'stop. Password please.''Baked Beans.' 'Enter. Welcome to Spy Academy.'

Council campaigns to outlaw bullying

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
  • | Nursery World
An innovative campaign aimed at tackling bullying in out-of-school hours has been launched across the London borough of Camden. 'Growing Up Safely in Camden' was drawn up by Camden's Children Fund after research commissioned in 2002 showed that 44 per cent of children aged five to 13 had been bullied in open spaces such as estates, parks or on routes to school in the previous six months.

Playschool in pictures

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  • Wednesday, August 17, 2005
  • | Nursery World
Playschool in pictures: children's photographs as a research method This study in an Icelandic playschool looked at the ways children think about their early childhood setting and set out to develop methods for listening to their perspectives. One group used digital cameras while they showed the researcher important places and things; the other group was given disposable cameras to use unsupervised. Einarsdottir, J. Early Child Development and Care 175(6): 523-541, August 2005. Abstract: www.tandf.co.uk/journals

First outstanding

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  • Monday, July 25, 2016
  • | Nursery World
Zeeba Royal Arsenal Riverside Nursery in London came straight in at number one after receiving an Outstanding grading from Ofsted.

Working to tackle bullying

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
  • | Nursery World
Recent research by the NSPCC revealed that 49 per cent of children and young people are worried about being bullied and that young people were reluctant to talk to their parents about concerns such as bullying for fear of not being believed. Out-of-school provision is not exempt from the dangers of bullying, indeed the potential for bullying to occur can be greater in the less structured environment of the club than in the classroom.

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