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Scottish framework for nursing in schools launched

    News
  • Wednesday, March 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
A Scottish framework for nursing in schools was last week launched by health minister Malcolm Chisholm, who said it would revolutionise school nursing and banish 'the old image of the nit nurse'. Mr Chisholm highlighted the early years as a key priority for health improvement. Nurses will assess the health needs of each school and develop plans to form the basis of the nursing team's work. They will work in partnership with children and parents to promote healthy lifestyles.

Nutrition

    News
  • Wednesday, March 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Yoghurt Nutritional value

NCB takes on NEYN resources

    News
  • Wednesday, March 12, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The National Children's Bureau (NCB)is to take on much of the work and resources of the National Early Years Network (NEYN) following the charity's official closure at the end of February. The NEYN's chair, Julie McLarnon, said last week that the NCB had 'agreed to purchase some of our training, publications and membership'. It has also taken over the NEYN's name and will support NEYN members through its Early Childhood Unit, while Early Education has agreed to take over the NEYN's reference library and archives.

Escaping the ogre

    News
  • Wednesday, March 17, 2004
    • | Nursery World
The 'In my view' by Rosemary Williams ('Tormented by a paper ogre', 12 February) said all I had been feeling, so I felt I must write to support her. I am the former manager of Little Owl Pre-School in Woodhouse Eaves. Like Rosemary, I was eager to pacify Ofsted at first, encouraging staff to keep on top of assessments and so on. But as the paperwork grew, courses had to be attended, reports written, and so on, until I decided that enough was enough.

Childminder inspection campaign takes off

    News
  • Friday, May 11, 2012
    • | Nursery World
More than 2,600 childminders have so far taken the National Childminding Association's campaign survey to keep childminders regulated and inspected as individuals under the EYFS.

Not all bad

    News
  • Wednesday, March 10, 2004
    • | Nursery World
An adult can sense when a child is worried about something, and this can aid as a prompt to taking action, explains Andrea Clifford-Poston, who points out that everyone can benefit 'I worry - some people collect stamps... I worry, I'm very good at it.' This playworker's joking pride in her ability to worry is unusual. We do not normally think of worrying as good or acceptable but rather something that spoils life. And nowhere is this more true than in the life of a child.

Vote fails for pay across Scotland

    News
  • Tuesday, March 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Hopes for a resolution to the long-running nursery nurses' dispute fell when a parliamentary vote to introduce a national pay settlement across Scotland was lost last week.

On loan

    News
  • Tuesday, March 16, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Nurseries, pre-schools and playschemes are finding a saviour in a unique financial organisation when other lenders have turned them down. Karen Faux reports

Baby room

    News
  • Wednesday, October 15, 2003
    • | Nursery World
The shortlist for the Sainsbury's Baby Book Award 2003 is reviewed by Alison Boyle BABY BOO!

Support staff victorious in national pay battle

    News
  • Wednesday, May 30, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Unions representing school support staff are celebrating after education secretary Alan Johnson gave the green light for creating a national pay structure under a new negotiating body. The long-awaited report by the Support Staff Working Group (SSWG) proposes that all non-teaching school staff, including teaching assistants and nursery nurses, be taken out of the National Joint Council negotiations between local authorities and unions, which determine pay and conditions for all other council employees. The unions hope it will end the wide disparities in pay for school staff, which have resulted from the process of harmonising conditions under the single status agreement.

My First Poem competition

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Four children from Learning Tree Day Nursery, Blackpool, will see their work in print next year after winning a My First Poem competition. They were asked to complete a template from organisers Young Writers and dedicate it to someone special. Nursery manager Valerie Cassell said, 'We're very proud of them. We hope it will give them confidence they will take into school.'

Buy 'bear miles'

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  • Sunday, August 10, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Paddington Bear has set off on a summer tour of UK children's hospitals in a bid to raise funds for the Bear Miles for Breakthroughs appeal organised by Action Medical Research to help sick children and babies.

Campaigners win support of Tory MP

    News
  • Wednesday, May 30, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Tory MP and shadow spokesman for higher education Boris Johnson is backing the campaign by private and voluntary nursery owners against the code of practice on nursery education. Speaking at the launch of the Oxfordshire PVI Providers Association on Friday, Mr Johnson said he was ready to seek an adjournment debate on the issue in the House of Commons.

Art in the Early Years: Part 1 - Introduction

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 25, 2011
    • | Nursery World
The basis for good early years practice in helping children develop their creativity is adults who know how to encourage them and model activity but not control the creative process.

Numbers game

    News
  • Wednesday, May 30, 2007
    • | Nursery World
Can the Government deliver its commitment to vulnerable families - or indeed to all families - given the alarming decline in health visitor services? Mary Evans reports Parents face a postcode lottery when it comes to seeing a health visitor.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, October 8, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'In a constant search for things to test, we're forgetting the true purpose, the true nature, of reading and writing; and in forcing these things to happen in a way that divorces them from pleasure, we are creating a generation of children who might be able to make the right noises when they see print, but who hate reading and feel nothing but hostility for literature.' Author Philip Pullman, a former teacher, on why he is against SATs, the Guardian

'Britain's first flat-pack nursery'

    News
  • Wednesday, May 16, 2007
    • | Nursery World
(Photograph) - Fun and learning are underway at the Ark Nursery in Stamford, Lincolnshire, which claims to be 'Britain's first flat-pack nursery'. The nursery was opened by owners Jo O'Bryan Tear and Claire Kenyon in March, who say many parents came to see it being constructed after the company supplying the imported Swedish-designed materials, Scandinavian Log Cabins Direct, was featured on Channel 4's 'Grand Designs' programme. Photo Roy Kilcullen Photography

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