Personal account Institutional account
| Register |

Search Results

Found 42,438 results for .

A guide to the revised EYFS: Part 4 - Planning

    Features
  • Monday, November 28, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Under the revised EYFS, planning for children's needs undergoes only subtle changes arising from the differences between prime and specific areas, as Ann Langston, director of Early Years Matters consultancy, explains

Nanny agencies in Scotland

    News
  • Wednesday, July 23, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Nanny agencies in Scotland employing more than three full-time staff will have to pay more than 2,500 from the end of September to register with the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care. Agencies employing staff working a total of more than 120 hours a week will have to pay 2,559, plus a 2,143 annual continuation fee, while those with fewer than three full-time staff will pay 1,059, plus a 642 annual continuation fee. Carol Edmundson, proprietor of the Glasgow Nanny Agency, said the fee levels were 'just ridiculous' and would be counterproductive, as agencies would have to pass on the costs to parents. She added that registration would be 'pointless all round' as the main intention of regulating nanny agencies was to enable parents employing their nannies to claim the childcare tax credit. The fees for registration of other childcare services have also been set. It will cost 16 to register a small daycare service, 146 for a large daycare service and 16 for childminding, with annual continuation fees of 13, 113 and 13 respectively.

Staying on board

    News
  • Wednesday, June 26, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Early intervention is one of the most effective ways to tackle mental health problems in children, yet the families who most need it often shun it. Judith Napier investigates Psychiatrists in Boston, Massachusetts, once thought they had the perfect way of encouraging families to join a programme aimed at tackling their emotional problems. Therapists hit the target neighbourhood with an attention-grabbing, rainbow-painted luxury trailer, brightly labelled as a mobile mental health unit - and wondered why the locals failed to climb aboard.

Unpaid paperwork

    News
  • Wednesday, March 31, 2004
    • | Nursery World
I, too, am a nursery owner who never had a problem with parents owing me money until the Inland Revenue changed the way the working tax credit operated last April. Since then two parents, whom I have taken to small claims court, have owed me 2,000. However, as they are on a low income, the court agreed that they can pay back a very small amount monthly; up to now I still haven't seen any money at all.

Sex education

    News
  • Tuesday, March 30, 2004
    • | Nursery World
How can early years practitioners treat boys and girls equally, yet focus on their different needs and strengths to foster learning? Helen Bilton considers the challenges

Interview - Russell Ford

    News
  • Monday, December 12, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Russell Ford, chief executive of nursery group All About Children, which has doubled in size with its acquisition of four nurseries from CfBT.

Supermarket sweep

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Pester power' can turn shopping into a nightmare, but Mary Whiting of the Food Commission offers some tips to help you cope It all starts at home with endless television adverts aimed at children.

Freedom of speech

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
I was interested to read the letter 'Oi you, talk proper' (8 May) in response to 'A problem shared' (10 April). Rosie Pressland made some valid points relating to language and dialect. It was refreshing to hear her acknowledge regional accents, as I grew up in east London and over the years I have worked in a variety of daycare settings around the country.

Social security

    News
  • Wednesday, June 26, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Developing emotional and social skills hinges on finding ways to make children feel involved and valued. Lena Engel offers some ideas Early learning goal

Driffield Sports Centre in the East Riding of Yorkshire

    News
  • Wednesday, January 7, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Thurston Jordan-Sen, aged three-and-a-half, enjoys learning to swim during an Aquatot swimming class at the Driffield Sports Centre in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Photo: Matt Gore/Guzelian

Out-of-hours care needs go unfilled

    News
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World

Growing demand by parents for childcare outside traditonal weekday 'nine to five' hours is not being met by care providers, claims a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Ticket to Tokyo

    News
  • Wednesday, June 25, 2003
    • | Nursery World
Fancy setting your sights as far east as you can go? Sue Hubberstey looks at what it's like for a nanny in Japan How easy is it to get a nanny job in Japan?

Ten-month-old Caitlin Elms and 101-year-old Winifred Smith

    News
  • Wednesday, March 24, 2004
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Only a century separated ten-month-old Caitlin Elms and 101-year-old Winifred Smith when they met at the opening of the Nunu day nursery in Wigan. Born on 1 July 1902, Winifred has been married to husband Fred for 74 years and has one son, three grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren - the youngest aged five. She cut the official ribbon of the day nursery with a local contemporary of hers, Sarah Baybutt, aged 97. Nursery manager Stephanie Poole said, 'We wanted to do something extra special to celebrate the nursery opening and so we began our search to find two exceptional women from the local community and treat them as VIPs for the day.' Photo by Pauline Neild

Welcome back

    News
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World

Can Margaret Hodge overturn New Labour's patchy record on early years? Professor Helen Penn has suggestions for the minister overseeing an integrated approach

To the point: Bonds make us strong

    Opinion
  • Monday, January 9, 2012
    • | Nursery World
In the week before Christmas, children from different schools in Tower Hamlets came to sing, beautifully, in the Town Hall. It was altogether a moving experience.

Toy story

    News
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2003
    • | Nursery World

Nursery children went to a London cinema to see the world premiere of an animation film they had made themselves. Catherine Gaunt was there to see what it was all about

Charity Carwash

    Other
  • Monday, November 2, 2015
    • | Nursery World
Buckets and sponges at the ready, the children of kidsunlimited Summerfields Day Nursery in Wilmslow, Cheshire took part in a charity car wash.

Santa Claus visits Kent

    News
  • Thursday, December 13, 2007
    • | Nursery World
There's no need for children to make the long trek to Lapland to deliver letters to Father Christmas now that he has a new outpost in Kent. At Lapland UK, near Tunbridge Wells, visitors get the chance to meet the man himself, lend a hand in the toy factory (rocking horse department), listen to traditional Lappish folk tales and go for a walk with some huskies.

© MA Education 2024. Published by MA Education Limited, St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 04002826. MA Education is part of the Mark Allen Group. – All Rights Reserved