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Sustainability: Part 2 - Taking the lead

    Features
  • Monday, February 22, 2016
    • | Nursery World
In the second part of our sustainability series, Diane Boyd and Nicky Hirst of Liverpool John Moores University, and Sarah Emerson of Kids Love Nature, describe how leaders can start the process off

New schools may boost staff careers

    News
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery staff can expect enhanced career development as integrated community schools are introduced across Scotland, if the experience of pilots in Stirling is repeated.

Teachers would vote to ditch SATs

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Teachers in England and Wales have given substantial backing for a ballot to boycott all SATs, with the strongest support for a ban on tests at the end of Key Stage 1. A survey by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) found support was strongest for a ballot to boycott Key Stage 1 tests at 82.5 per cent, with 71.4 per cent wanting a ballot to boycott Key Stage 2 and 64 per cent Key Stage 3.

Trainees count as nursery staff

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nursery operators may be allowed to count young trainees as up to half of their accredited staff, under an amendment in Ofsted's guidance to the Government's national standards for daycare in England. The amendment, published last month, states under 'Standard 2: Organisation, staff ratios and deployment', that 'if your trainees are 17 years or older, they may be included in staffing ratios, if you are satisfied that they are competent and responsible'.

New horizons

    News
  • Tuesday, November 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Imagine trying to open a daycare setting far from home. Kris Koloszko describes the challenges of running a centre in The Gambia

Good moos for Noah's Ark

    News
  • Wednesday, August 22, 2007
    • | Nursery World
A nursery's own cow has so far evaded slaughter after she and five companions tested negative for foot-and-mouth disease last week.

Editor's view - Here we go again

    Opinion
  • Monday, March 7, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Just as the Department for Education had finished swatting down all the criticism of its 30-hour policy arising from the National Day Nurseries Association and Family and Childcare Trust reports, yet more pops up – this time from inside government with the National Audit Office report. It’s a bit like the old arcade game Whack-a-Mole!

Letters: Shall we network?

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, August 22, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Recently I offered other daycare settings a booklet we had written on the subject of treasure baskets and heuristic play (Letters, 12 July). Our nursery has been inundated with requests for copies, with many letters and e-mails commenting on how rare it is to share material between nurseries.

Work Matters: Leadership - Change is good

    Features
  • Tuesday, October 26, 2010
    • | Nursery World
Re-organising your nursery space can take a leap of the imagination and some staff may be resistant to the upheaval. But it is only with the support of the whole team that grand plans can be realised, says nursery manager Kathryn Peckham

Happitots Day Nurseries

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Happitots Day Nurseries is taking over the nursery chain Bright Beginnings. Happitots already runs five day nurseries across Scotland and is expected to open a further two later this year. The acquisition of Bright Beginnings will add a further three branches to the chain. The first branch of Happitots was opened in a converted church in 1996 by managing director Heather Gilchrist in Portobello, Glasgow, who has acquired other settings since then. The buyout of Bright Beginnings will add 56 more staff and 200 more childcare places to Happitots.

Working Mum - A dressing down

    Features
  • Monday, March 7, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Pyjamas on the school, or nursery, run should be a big no-no and may indicate that all is not well at home, says Working Mum

Primary Steps adds to sites please

    News
  • Wednesday, October 29, 2003
    • | Nursery World
* Creative Education, the first nursery chain to float on the stock market, has made five further acquisitions. The company has bought three nurseries and a pre-preparatory school in Essex and a day nursery in Bedford. The chain, trading under the name Primary Steps, now has 400 places at 11 sites in London and the south-east.

Four year-old Jessica from Hertfordshire

    News
  • Wednesday, November 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Four year-old Jessica from Hertfordshire enjoyed a movement play session for visually impaired children involving dancers, musicians and visual artists at Sadler's Wells theatre in London on 11 November. The session was organised by The Ark, a charity that runs an annual programme of multi-sensory workshops for children who have learning, physical disabilities and sensory impairment. For more information, contact The Ark by e-mailing info@theark1.demon.co.uk. Manuela Benini, movement playleader for Sadler's Wells Theatre and Sure Start Islington South, said the session was a 'space for exploration, where imagination can be unlocked and expressed through music making, dance, vocal work and sensory awareness'. The multi-sensory theatre environment features an underwater journey with jellyfish, treasure chests, secret caves, rainsticks, ocean drums and projections of fish. Dancers, musicians and visual artists worked with the groups and their carers. It formed part of the Xposure Disability Arts festival, which is taking place across London throughout November. Photo by Jacky Chapman

Nursery World E-mail Bulletin

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  • Tuesday, November 2, 2010
    • | Nursery World
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Contested articles

    News
  • Wednesday, November 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
I find Nursery World a wonderful source of information and advice on childcare issues, and I especially like the topic pages, free posters and pull-out booklets. I enjoy entering the competitions and sometimes have been successful.

Letters: Give and take

    Opinion
  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Well done, Conservative MP Anne McIntosh ('MPs argue over private nursery viability', 12 July). I believe the Government certainly is opposed to the private sector.

Faith matters

    News
  • Tuesday, November 18, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Practitioners need to work with parents to deliver early learning about different faiths, says Stephen Gregg

Integrated school idea wins backing

    News
  • Wednesday, November 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Scotland's minister for education and young people has given his strongest commitment to date to the concept of integrated community schools, which could see an enhanced role for early years workers. Peter Peacock told Children in Scotland's annual conference last week, 'I have been looking closely at the experience to date of what were our new community schools, that are now our integrated community schools. I know from talking with many practitioners that there is a great deal of enthusiasm and commitment for integrated community schools.

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