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The number of children in funded pre-school education in Northern Ireland has almost doubled

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  • Wednesday, May 7, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The number of children in funded pre-school education in Northern Ireland has almost doubled in the past five years, new statistics show. The school census released by the Department for Education for the year 2002-03 said that 21,076 children were in pre-school provision, with 14,092 in nursery schools or nursery classes in primary schools, 1,180 in reception classes and 5,804 in funded places in playgroups and day nurseries. This compares with 11,116 children in funded pre-school education in 1997-98. There has also been a significant increase in the number of children attending integrated primary and secondary schools, with 15,695 pupils in 2002-03 compared with 8,154 five years ago.

Switch on to ICT

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  • Wednesday, May 12, 2004
    • | Nursery World
An introduction to the keyboard As we approach the end of the summer term, many practitioners are beginning to focus on the computer keyboard. All computers have some form of bundled, basic word processor. Next comes the free processors you can download; the best of these is FreeText from Kudlian. This is similar in functionality to WordPad but also allows graphics to be imported and has a spell checker, large friendly tool bar and a word bank. Finally there are the purchased word processors such as Microsoft Word, Textease etc.

Project guide

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  • Wednesday, November 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
This project recognises that: * settings should be constantly resourced and organised in such a way as to offer learning opportunities across all areas of the Foundation Stage curriculum

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