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Radio appeals to children's senses

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Anew radio project wants to encourage young children to 'see' with their ears. The 'Let's Make Radio' project promotes radio as an essential tool in the development of listening and speaking skills in early years children. The scheme, developed in partnership with Abracadabra!, the children's radio service, encourages childcarers and teachers to embrace the opportunities radio can bring.

Ask the expert

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Child psychologist Jennie Lindon answers your letters about child behaviour. Q. We have two children (both four-year-olds) currently in our nursery who each have an imaginary friend. One child just uses her friend in her pretend play: chatting and involving the friend in domestic role play in the home corner. We realise that many young children have an imaginary friend, so we do not see this automatically as a problem. However, the second child really seems to need his 'friend' to speak up for him. His father is getting worried that his son can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality.

Look out for the ratio of fees to wages

    News
  • Wednesday, April 24, 2002
    • | Nursery World
In the 28 March edition of Nursery World, there were two items that particularly interested me - the news story 'Nursery profits "are hyped to investors"' concerning the Children's Nurseries - UK Market Sector Report by Laing and Buisson, and the letter 'Between a rock and a hard place' by Kirsty Lester, who owns a day nursery. If, as according to the Laing and Buisson report, the average fee for a full-time nursery place is 120 a week and the average hourly rate of nursery nurses is 5.45, then day nurseries like ourselves which charge just 80 per week (because that is all the local economy can stand) should be paying staff an average of Pounds 3.63 per hour on a pro-rata basis. National Minimum Wage requirements, however, are considerably higher, and the lowest wage paid in this nursery is Pounds 4.40 per hour.

In brief...The Manchester Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
The Manchester Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership will explore the theme 'working together' at its annual conference on Wednesday 19 September. Speakers at the event, to be held at Manchester City Football Ground, will include Naomi Eisenstadt, head of the Sure Start unit, and Laurence Blackhall, from the Department for Education and Skills, who will be talking to delegates about the Neighbourhood Nursery programme in Manchester. For more information contact Laura Koonjean or Stephanie Hailwood on 0161 273 3646.

Make ICT work

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
With careful planning, ICT can be productive and fun, as a school in Manchester discovered, says Jenny Benjamin It often seems that ICT provision in schools and nurseries is all about buying hardware. Make enough money on your fete or save enough cereal packets and your nursery's computer needs will be met.

Who cares?

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
On the eve of Government moves to increase the number of children who find permanent adoptive families, psychologist Hessel Willemsen describes the trauma facing those forced to live in temporary care settings There has been concern for some time about the plight of children in local authority care. Separated from their families because of neglect or emotional, physical or sexual abuse, only a tiny few have been lucky enough to find the security of an adopted family. The rest - and there are nearly 60,000 children in the care of local authorities at any one time in England, with more than 10,000 under four years old - are placed in temporary foster homes or residential homes and schools.

A healthy choice

    News
  • Wednesday, November 7, 2001
    • | Nursery World
After watching two videos on vaccination, one for and one against, at college, my whole opinion on vaccination changed. I would not have had my four children vaccinated at all. A natural decline was already occurring in these illnesses before the vaccination programme. It is important for a child to build up its own natural immunity, but I also believe now that vaccination does more harm than good to a baby's immune system (not to mention the addition of mercury and formaldehyde to these vaccinations).

In brief...A website on the national curriculum

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
A website to guide children aged five to 11 and their parents through the national curriculum in England has been set up jointly by the Department for Education and Skills and the BBC. The website, 'Digger and the Gang', follows the adventures of a gang of children and their dog Digger while giving users experience of different subjects and levels of learning across the curriculum. The website can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/education/ schools/digger.

Feeling the heat

    News
  • Wednesday, September 5, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Nursery nurses and classroom assistants are being put under pressure by the growing teacher recruitment crisis, often left to cope alone. Mary Evans investigates Schools are beginning the new year facing a teacher shortage described by Ofsted chief inspector Mike Tomlinson as the worst he has seen in his 35-year career in education. However, an academic leading a major study on classroom assistants says that the practice of using support staff for teaching is masking the true extent of the crisis.

My week at work: Sure footed

    News
  • Tuesday, April 23, 2002
    • | Nursery World

As an outreach worker for a Sure Start programme Julie Slingsby provides vital support for families with babies and toddlers. Here she describes a typical working week

School provision plans see fresh wave of criticism

    News
  • Friday, September 19, 2014
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations have renewed their call for the Government to abandon its drive for more schools to offer places for two-year-olds, in light of findings from the Department for Education’s (DfE) annual survey on the state of the early years sector.

Autumn collection

    Other
  • Monday, October 20, 2014
    • | Nursery World
The Big Bumbles (four-year-olds) at Busy Bears Durham had an outing to collect autumn items, including leaves and conkers.

Young children can join a character called Seea Brightstar

    News
  • Wednesday, April 17, 2002
    • | Nursery World
Young children can join a character called Seea Brightstar on adventures in an outrageous world of raucous witches. 'Wee Witches', by the Wee Stories Theatre for Children, will be performing at nurseries and schools in central Scotland and many theatres throughout May and June. The imaginative production, suitable for children aged three to seven, uses stories, music, singing, dancing and rhyme. For information on tour venues call 01786 449162.

Maternity worries

    News
  • Tuesday, November 3, 2009
    • | Nursery World
First-time mothers feel most anxious and have the most questions about their babies' development five months after the birth, according to research to help develop the NHS Baby LifeCheck, a free online questionnaire. It found that mothers felt more isolated and had more questions as visits from family and friends declined. Visit www.nhs.uk/babylifecheck.

Roots and shoots

    Opinion
  • Monday, September 22, 2014
    • | Nursery World
As summer comes to an end, gardeners start preparing for winter: tidying fallen leaves, planting bulbs for the spring, and protecting some more delicate plants from anticipated frosts.

Quote of the week

    News
  • Wednesday, August 29, 2001
    • | Nursery World
'Under-fives are eager to try things out, which makes them exciting to work with. If you give them a piece of clay they don't start out with adult preconceptions of success or failure, they just want to enjoy the experience.' Jean Pickering, co-founder and director of Kidsunlimited, in The Sun

Tales of the unexpected

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Real-life experiences, legends and fairytales make great sources for storytime, especially if told in your own words When choosing material for storytime, practitioners need to remember that stories do not always come in books. The funny little incident on the way to the nursery and the great legends passed down through word of mouth can all provide rich material.

Little Bear and the Long Road

    News
  • Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    • | Nursery World
Retold by Mary Medlicott with thanks to storyteller Kyoko Matsuoka, the Japanese storyteller who passed on the story. This is a story for the very youngest children, though older children may enjoy it, too. To tell it, you will need a little teddy bear - a finger-puppet teddy would be good as the story actions involves the bear 'travelling' from your shoulder to the tips of your fingers and back again.

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