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Improvements in reading

    News
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Improvements in reading, writing and numeracy in the early stages of primary school have been credited by minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson to the early intervention programme, which has increased the numbers of classroom assistants. However, she pointed out that there are wide variations across Scotland. 'I know that while many schools are doing exceptionally well, others are not reaching the level of attainment parents should expect. That gap is unacceptable and must be closed,' Ms Jamieson said. The latest national survey of 5-14 attainment levels found that in P3, 95.1 per cent of pupils reached the appropriate standard in mathematics for their age, compared with 87.4 in reading and 84.6 in writing.

Prize vegetables

    Other
  • Tuesday, November 5, 2013
    • | Nursery World
St Joseph's Nursery in Devizes entered the Devizes and Roundway in Bloom competition.

Talking rubbish

    News
  • Wednesday, April 3, 2002
    • | Nursery World
You can get children involved in an educational project on recycling materials and help rescue the environment into the bargain, as Joyce Reid discovers Anyone working with primary school children will tell you that they know a lot about recycling and see it as a very natural thing to do. The message can start even earlier at nursery age. Morag Grant, recycling officer with Angus Council in Scotland, spends much of her time educating the public on recycling - and what better place to start off than in nurseries?

Sniff, sniff

    News
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Child development opportunities * To listen carefully to speech and respond quickly.

Moral grounds

    News
  • Wednesday, April 3, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I agree with teachers who believe that some children are not being taught basic moral lessons, such as respect for elders and peers, before they begin their formal schooling. I am pleased our society seems to be moving away from the traditional ideas of smacking and the belief that 'children should be seen and not heard'. However, I feel that some parents are tackling discipline in the wrong way. Children should have a voice, and have their rights and their opinions respected but it is equally important that they learn there are rules to follow. Children need to hear the word 'no'. They are happier for knowing what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour.

'D' grade for care and education

    News
  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The government of the Irish republic is ignoring vulnerable children and failing to deliver many of its key commitments in terms of early education, literacy and health, a new report argues.

Recycling: Talking rubbish

    News
  • Tuesday, April 2, 2002
    • | Nursery World
You can get children involved in an educational project on recycling materials and help rescue the environment into the bargain, as Joyce Reid discovers

To the rescue

    News
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Childcarers admit to an alarming ignorance of first aid that a child's life could depend on, finds Simon Vevers. Your qualifications and references have been scrutinised, criminal records checks completed and you are ready to be placed with a family and start looking after children. But are you really ready for any possibility? Would you know what to do in the event of accident and injury?

If you don't ask you don't get

    News
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
By Ann Russell, supervisor at the St Barnabas Pre-school in Worcester We went for it in a big way, then we went for it again, and the seed of an idea is germinating for yet another go.

Family Health: Dear Parent

    Features
  • Monday, July 14, 2014
    • | Nursery World
In a letter to all parents of young children, Dr Raj Thakkar offers some guidance on both common and more serious medical conditions, what symptoms to look out for, and how to treat them

Limited option

    News
  • Wednesday, February 26, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nannies are being urged to become directors of their own companies. Here Stephen Vahrman argues against it Manning the phones at our office last week I took a call from a nanny who was distressed because the parents she was about to start working for were asking her to set up her own limited company rather than be their employee, as this would save them some money. She was confused and unhappy, and seeking advice. That day alone we took two similar calls from other nannies.

Hit the decking

    News
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Decking has enabled us to transform a former muddy swamp - a child magnet! - into one of the best used areas in the outdoors. The problem area was in a corner, hidden from the main courtyard by the outdoor toy storage and shaded by trees and a nursery playroom. It was also next to a fence, which was, unfortunately, too easily scaled by vandals. So we were restricted in what we could put there. Benches and equipment not cemented into the ground just gave an easy exit to intruders.

Expansion stifled

    News
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Pre-school Learning Alliance survey findings are true to an extent, but, as an owner of a pre-school held in a Scout hut, I have found Ofsted to be the problem where expansion is concerned. I have wanted to expand for some time but am still waiting for my registration certificate one year on. Without this I cannot claim the New Opportunities Fund funding which we were given back in July. The last time I contacted Ofsted about this matter I was told that its system listed our setting as closed - despite having had an inspection three months ago. I was also told that the inspectors dealing with my registration were both off due to illness, so I just have to wait until such a time as they decide to issue my certificate.

Greater assistants

    News
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I am doing the Specialist Teacher Assistant (STA) course that will qualify me to a high standard of classroom assistant. I believe pay for classroom assistants should be increased and our responsibilities defined. Classroom assistants are invaluable within schools and we should be given adequate training such as the latest STA course provided by CACHE.

A Unique Child: Nutrition - Solid advice

    Features
  • Monday, November 4, 2013
    • | Nursery World
How can nurseries meet the nutritional needs of babies when they move from breast milk or infant formula to complementary foods? In the first of two articles on weaning, Nicole Weinstein looks at the introduction of solid food at six months old.

Nord Anglia Education

    News
  • Wednesday, September 28, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Nord Anglia Education, which includes Leapfrog Day Nurseries, has appointed Stephen Hyde as its new group finance director. Alan Kelsey, chairman of Nord Anglia, said, 'I am confident that Stephen will play a major role in the successful implementation of our plans for the business.'

Yoga

    News
  • Wednesday, February 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Nursery teacher Fiona Thomson decided that the children in Hilton Nursery in Aberdeen needed to calm down before story time, so she teaches them yoga. 'It has worked,' she said. 'It calms them down and they enjoy it.' Using simple, gentle movements, the children breathe slowly and stretch different parts of their bodies. Ms Thomson said it took a while for them to master 'hook ups', where they cross their hands together, stretch them out, then hold them in under their chins, but it is now their favourite move. Photo: Paul Reid

Reader offer

    News
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Nanny Diaries has just been published by Penguin at 6.99, but we have five free copies of the book to give away free to Professional Nanny readers. Just send your name and address on the back of a post card or sealed envelope, marked 'Diaries', to the address on page three. The first five entries to be drawn out of the hat on 15 April will win.

Positive Relationships: Working with Parents - Cafe society

    Features
  • Monday, November 4, 2013
    • | Nursery World
Norfolk's Story Cafe programme is proving a hugely effective way of engaging parents in their children's learning. Programme developers Julie Westrop and Mandy Lowe and teacher Nicky Hudson offer some insight into how they are making it a success.

NSPCC to set up safeguard unit

    News
  • Wednesday, January 28, 2009
    • | Nursery World
The NSPCC has been given 2m by the Government to set up a new safeguarding unit specifically for the voluntary sector.

Leading Article

    News
  • Wednesday, March 27, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Sometimes I consider the subjects in Professional Nanny and wonder if it's all getting a bit too touchy-feely. There's such a lot of emotional content - in this issue, for example, we look at a book about a nanny-employer conflict, at coping with divorce, mothering on the job, recalling childhood, and getting stressed out! It's only natural for emotional entanglements to come into any job in the 'caring professions', of course, but in another magazine such intense feelings and relationships would be happening in people's personal lives, not their working day. Yet nannying is such personal work. Being based within the home and family, it's not surprising that people confuse it with parenting. The job has come such a full circle from the upstairs- downstairs days of servants that more formality might do some good. As the authors of The Nanny Diaries say, it would be easier for the nanny to love the child if her relationship with the mother were professionalised. Yes please - let's see nannies as professionals , not as substitute mothers or extensions of the family. Now turn to the inside back page to win a chance to get away from it all!

Food Chain

    Review
  • Tuesday, April 27, 2010
    • | Nursery World
by M P Robertson. Frances Lincoln, hardback, 11.99

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