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Thinking it through

    News
  • Tuesday, July 8, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners must consider whether a mainstream or special setting is best for a particular child on an individual basis, says Valerie Driscoll

The Big Picture - Giant art attack

    News
  • Friday, April 13, 2012
    • | Nursery World
Children at Ready Teddy Go nursery at Epsom Methodist Church in Surrey got creative building a sculpture of the giant from Julia Donaldson's book The Smartest Giant in Town.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'My daughter felt under so much pressure that she used to wake up with nightmares about the tests.' Parent Suzanne Munza at the launch of a national campaign, Stop the SATS, against the school tests taken by seven-, 11- and 14-year-olds, at a conference held at a London secondary school, BBC Online

Vote for nannies

    News
  • Wednesday, April 27, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Who should get the nannies' vote in the general election? A quick glance at the parties' promises sees the Conservatives offering families a 50 a week tax credit per under-five child regardless of the type of childcare they use - favouring the 'informal', unqualified carer, or granny babysitter - so, less work for nannies there. The Liberal Democrats would implement Labour's plans on more free nursery hours and wraparound care - so, less work for nannies there. And it's taken Labour eight years, until this month, to give parents any financial help with employing a nanny, via the childcare approval scheme (see page 4), and even that is voluntary and nothing like the nanny register nannies and campaigners have been demanding for years - so, who's holding their breath for more?

National Bookstart Day

    News
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Pirates Ahoy! was the theme of this year's National Bookstart Day, and children from Greenwich were joined by celebrity mum Gail Porter for the launch at the National Maritime Museum. Organisers Booktrust held a range of events for families across the UK, including song and storytelling sessions, rhyme times, games and pirate themed adventures. For more information visit www.booktrust.org.uk.

A fresh stage for the early years recruitment campaign

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A fresh stage of the early years recruitment campaign will get under way this month with adverts on national television alongside a range of local initiatives. According to Sure Start, the new round of advertising 'aims to provide a new national image for the sector - one of a skilled, imaginative, intelligent and competent workforce, and hopes to attract more men, people from ethnic minorities, older people and those with disabilities'. Since the campaign started three years ago, 160,000 people have contacted the national order line for recruitment packs and about 15 per cent of them have found jobs in the sector within six months .

Appropriate reply

    News
  • Wednesday, February 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I deeply regret that Pat Field (Letters, 7 February) read my feature 'Sitting uncomfortably' as a blunt criticism of early years practitioners. It certainly was not my intention to 'blame practitioners for not understanding the subtleties in the wording of "as appropriate" that completes the early learning goal of "maintain attention, concentrate and sit quietly...".' I suggested triple-underlining the word in order to highlight how much we all need to discuss and reflect on realistic expectations for young children. Some early years prac- titioners have felt that they should focus on sit-down activities or felt pressured, against their professional judgement, to act as if proper learning only happens indoors. Young children can maintain attention and they can concentrate.

MPs fail to ban smacking

    News
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
An attempt by MPs to ban smacking has failed in the House of Commons after no time was left to discuss it adequately.

Editor's view

    News
  • Wednesday, February 13, 2002
    • | Nursery World
The Government's need to tackle secondary education in its second term of office is obviously pressing, but its feeling that the early years sector is now all hunky-dory - education secretary Estelle Morris saying, 'We delivered and it worked' - should be resisted. The early years sector is at a crucial stage of development. Among the issues that still need to be given attention and funding is the recruitment crisis - just where are all the people to staff the expansion going to come from, and how are they going to be paid the kind of money that will keep them? There's the confusing array of funding streams that early years managers are spending way too much time trying to access, and the debate over how the early years partnerships should be working.

Provision rises and spreads

    News
  • Wednesday, July 2, 2003
    • | Nursery World
One in five children aged under eight now have access to a registered childcare place, according to Ofsted - but increased provision has also led to falling occupancy levels in day nurseries and fears for their future sustainability. The first figures produced by the inspection service show a marked improvement in levels of provision, compared with the one in seven chance of getting a childcare place that was shown in the 2001 Children's Day Care Facilities statistics published by the Department for Education and Skills.

Council cuts hit family centres

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Two family support centres in Wiltshire have had their budgets slashed in half following a borough council's cost-cutting measures. On 1 April the Walcot Family Centre and the Welcome Family Centre in Swindon received only 25,000 for their annual 50,000 social services budgets. The decision came just months after funding for a new children's centre in the same location was secured.

A Parent's Guide to ... Literacy

    Features
  • Friday, September 28, 2012
    • | Nursery World
As a parent, literacy is probably the area that you are most determined for your child to succeed in. It is important, both in school and in life, and being able to read and write confidently and fluently are vital skills that we all need.

A Unique Child Nutrition: Waste not!

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 14, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Food costs are soaring, yet a third of the food we buy still gets thrown away. Mary Whiting offers tips on cutting waste and costs for nurseries and parents alike while ensuring children still eat well.

Results of survey by Family and Parenting Institute

    News
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008
    • | Nursery World
Parents want more say about tax credits and family benefits, according to the first survey from an online venture launched by the Family and Parenting Institute to coincide with Parents' Week (20-26 October). The charity said Family Voice will act as a 'megaphone' for families to have their say on important matters, which will be used in campaigns to challenge Government. In the first survey, 67 per cent of parents wanted to tell the Government what would work well for them with regards to benefits and tax credits. FPI director of communications Sally Gimson, said, 'We want to take the voice of families to policy makers and politicians so they are in touch with how policies affect their everyday lives.' Visit www.familyandparenting.org/familyvoice.

Free childcare for teenage parents

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Students aged between 16 and 19 in England who become parents are to be given up to 15,000 over three years towards their childcare costs. The Government initiative Care to Learn?, which begins next month, is for young parents - either mothers or fathers - who attend sixth form school or further education colleges or are in work-based learning. The Department for Education and Skills will pay up to 5,000 per child each year towards the costs of all types of registered childcare to enable their parents to learn, study or train for employment and let them retain a childcare place during the holidays.

The Scottish Out-of-School Care Network has moved offices

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The Scottish Out-of-School Care Network has moved offices. Its new address is Level 2, 100 Wellington Street, Glasgow G2 6DH (tel: 0141 564 1284, fax 0141 564 1286, e-mail info@soscn.org). There are also new contact details for Play Scotland, the Scotland-wide organisation that promotes and supports children's play, at Midlothian Innovation Centre, Pentlandfield, Roslin, Midlothian EH25 9RE (tel: 0131 440 9070, fax 0131 440 9071, website www.playscotland.org).

Case study: Chichester Nursery School

    News
  • Wednesday, April 20, 2005
    • | Nursery World
It's not just the doormat with its 'Welcome to Chichester Nursery School' message that signals a warm welcome for parents and children at this West Sussex school.

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