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In all directions

    News
  • Wednesday, April 21, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A project on early map work and journeys will help children develop a sense of understanding of their local community, as these activities from Diana Lawson show Project guide

NVQ4: First class

    News
  • Tuesday, February 13, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The new senior level of NVQ award is being tackled with enthusiasm by its first students. Judith Napier met them

Minority report

    News
  • Tuesday, April 20, 2004
    • | Nursery World
How can settings ensure that they are providing equality to minority ethnic communities? Nicole Curnow and Mary Evans look at Sure Start research on equality policies

In my view - Safe as they want to be

    Features
  • Tuesday, September 14, 2010
    • | Nursery World
The gloves are off. In one corner we have Health Protection Scotland. In the other corner is the Secret Garden, a small outdoor nursery that just wants to allow children to enjoy all that is great about the outdoors.

Big issue

    News
  • Tuesday, April 20, 2004
    • | Nursery World
With childhood obesity levels rising rapidly, Joyce Reid looks at the results of a study on very young children. Your family's assistance would be much appreciated.

Enabling Environments: Tummy Time - Floor show

    Features
  • Monday, September 7, 2015
    • | Nursery World
The benefits of 'tummy time' are well documented, but many babies spend too little time playing in this way. Andrea Vaughan explains how her setting has been working to increase parent awareness.

Training body sets out to improve SVQs' reputation

    News
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The newly-appointed Scottish representative of the Early Years National Training Organisation is planning to raise the profile of Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs) in early education and childcare amid concerns about their lack of recognition. Sarah Sayers said she wants to improve the reputation of SVQs in Early Years Care and Education and also ensure 'that those who are delivering the training and assessment are aware of the need to maintain quality, as many already do'.

'Carers need to keep children keen on science'

    News
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Early years practitioners need to harness young children's natural interest in science before they absorb the negative stereotype of the 'nutty professor' from cartoons and films, claims a researcher for Children in Scotland. Jennifer Wallace, a research and policy assistant at Children in Scotland carrying out a research project examining children's participation in science, said, 'Our early findings indicate that the opinions and attitudes of children towards science are formed at an early age. While younger children see scientists as a group of people interested in the world around them, older children tend to view scientists as boring and anti-social.' She pointed out that Scottish Executive statistics suggest that children's performance at science becomes poorer as they grow older, with a higher proportion of primary school pupils reaching target levels than those at senior school. Children in Scotland maintains that children need to be engaged in scientific activity at an early age through both education and out-of-school clubs, to dispel stereotypes before they are formed.

Sacrificial offering

    News
  • Wednesday, February 25, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I am 33 years old, married with a six-year-old son and about to embark on a career as a nursery nurse. I currently work as an administrator in a firm of accountants, where I earn more than 10 an hour. But my new job as a nursery assistant will pay me only 4.65 an hour. My husband and I are having to make huge sacrifices in order for me to embark on this much-wanted career. Why should such an important job be paid so little?

How nursery grant failed to deliver

    News
  • Wednesday, February 25, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Further to the news story 'Nurseries may quit education grant' (5 February), the issue of funding made me leave the early years sector after 15 years of working in various playgroups to work as an NVQ assessor and tutor in early years. Early years staff are generally poorly paid. When the nursery voucher scheme was introduced by the previous Conservative government in 1997 (only to be replaced by Labour when it came into power with the nursery education grant, which was in effect the same scheme only with another name), it was to raise the standard and accessibility of early years care for parents by subsidising fees at accredited providers who had proved themselves to be of a high standard.

The amount of money to be spent by the Government on every child in England

    News
  • Wednesday, April 14, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The amount of money to be spent by the Government on every child in England by the new children's commissioner - 24p - is only a fraction of that being spent in the rest of the UK, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Walmsley has revealed. The commissioner's budget per child is Pounds 3.80 in Northern Ireland, 2.11 in Wales and 98p in Scotland. Speaking during the second reading of the Children Bill in the House of Lords, she said she was 'horrified' by the low sum and added, 'I think English children have a right to the same level of voice as those anywhere else in the UK, and the resources should follow them equally.' Baroness Walmsley said the way to deal with the more than 11 million children and young people who live in England 'may not be to establish the same structures as elsewhere'. She said, 'It would probably make sense to have a set of regional children's commissioners. However, it certainly does not make sense to give an English child only one-fifteenth of that made available to Northern Ireland's children.'

Speak out!

    News
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries should be thinking about how they could put more into their customer service, says Theresa Ellerby, director of the Children's House in north-east Lincolnshire A great deal of customer service-speak that comes from training gurus often seems very far removed from working in a nursery, but last year I heard a trainer from the US give a speech on customer service which gave me food for thought. Speaking at an Investors in People dinner at Humberside TEC, she astutely summed up two kinds of people we meet every day - those like ducks who constantly moan 'quarrk quarrrk', and those who aspire higher and soar like eagles.

Nursery nurses and councils resume talks

    News
  • Wednesday, April 14, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Talks resumed last week between Unison and local authority employers in an attempt to settle the long-running nursery nurses' dispute, as their all-out strike entered its sixth week of action. The meeting, which took place on 7 April at the headquarters of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (CoSLA) in Edinburgh, was the first time since last summer that face-to-face discussions have taken place between the two sides.

Degrees of ability

    News
  • Wednesday, February 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
I am a final-year A-level student hoping to train to be a nursery teacher. To become qualified I will need to train for four years to gain a degree. I chose teaching over childcare because of the difference in qualifications. An NVQ or BTec level 3 qualification in no way compares to the degree my career choice requires, but if entry to childcare required such a level of training I would apply for it. NVQs are a blessing because not everyone is academically able. However, some people are, and this is something the childcare profession doesn't seem to realise. Unless a degree level of training is introduced, the childcare sector will continue losing academically-able students.

The Big Picture: Animal magic

    News
  • Sunday, December 13, 2015
    • | Nursery World
A new musical adventure for children aged three and above is playing at Chelsea Theatre until Christmas Eve.

Home and dry

    News
  • Wednesday, February 25, 2004
    • | Nursery World
A nanny who registered as a home carer and added other families to her employer's children tells Helen Kewley how she did it Alison Goddard gained her NNEB in 1994. After six years as a sole-charge nanny, she moved to the Hutchison family to look after girls aged three and four and twins who were born three weeks after she started the job.

Mother love

    News
  • Wednesday, February 25, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Help children create a gift that will take pride of place in their mother's heart with these ideas by Hilary White Receiving a handmade card or gift from your child is one of the great pleasures of motherhood. But mothers with younger children rely on other people like nannies to organise a gift for Mothering Sunday, which this year comes on 21 March.

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