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A unique Child: Get cooking - casserole

    Features
  • Tuesday, January 20, 2009
    • | Nursery World
In the first of a monthly series, Emma Comer and Meg Smith of Tall Trees Kindergarten in Frome, Somerset, share a recipe and tips on delivering food of the highest quality to young children.

Where can we go?

    News
  • Wednesday, December 11, 2002
    • | Nursery World
I work in a pre-school that uses church premises. We have to set up play equipment each morning and put everything away again at the end of the session. We have to be out of the premises by a certain time, giving us no time to talk to parents. I have recently attended a Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator training course and I do not know where I am going to be able to hold meetings with parents about their children's special needs, which is a very delicate issue. If there are to be free places for all three- and four-year-olds by 2004 as the Government is intending, this issue will have to be addressed.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, February 19, 2003
    • | Nursery World
'Sometimes the only way you can tell who's who in a class is that the teacher is standing, and the teaching assistant is sitting down. And children don't know, either' Roger Hancock of the Open University, who has studied the role of teaching assistants in schools, The Independent

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Port of call

    Features
  • Monday, January 27, 2014
    • | Nursery World
One city council's commitment to early intervention for those with special educational needs is ensuring children get the support they need. Nicole Weinstein reports.

Children as young as four are being permanently excluded from school

    News
  • Wednesday, December 4, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Children as young as four are are being permanently excluded from school in England, Government data for the year 2000-01 has revealed. According to the Office for National Statistics, 13 four-year-olds - 12 boys and one girl - were permanently removed from their schools, as were 52 five-year-olds - 49 boys and three girls. By the age of six, 95 boys and eight girls were permanently excluded from school. The number of permanent exclusions overall, at just over 9,100 - 80 per cent of them from secondary schools - is the highest since 1998-99.

Neighbourhood sites win funding

    News
  • Wednesday, March 20, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Grants of nearly 250,000 have been awarded to build or renovate six day nurseries in England to boost the Government's Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative. The New Opportunities Fund's (NOF) Building Neighbourhood Nurseries programme last week awarded more than 234,000 to fund the building of three new nurseries and the development of a further three. NOF chair Baroness Jill Pitkeathley said, 'These are exciting new projects and this funding will enable them to begin closing the gaps in childcare provision, particularly in disadvantaged areas.'

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