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Let the babies be

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  • Wednesday, March 1, 2006
    • | Nursery World
I agree with Peter Dixon (In My View, 12 January) - what madness to have a curriculum for babies. Is this just a ploy to keep those who dream up these absurdities in employment? Will this lead to my 16-month-old being tested at age two? Maybe I'll have to get her a tutor or she won't pass the entry exam at the school nursery when she is three and a half. There seems to be a compulsion to fit everything into a box with planning.

Wraparound care 'will cost'

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Childcare and educational establishments have welcomed the Government's commitment to the extended schools initiative, while warning that 'it can't be done on the cheap'. Speaking at 'Every Childhood Matters', a 4Children conference held in London last week, education secretary Charles Clarke outlined plans for all schools to offer wraparound childcare from 8am to 6pm for 48 weeks of the year.

A sound start

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  • Wednesday, September 15, 2004
    • | Nursery World
Never mind music's effect on the brain - its value to young children is in providing a shared experience and developing personal skills, as Susan Young explains Recent years have seen a lot of interest in how music might contribute to children's overall development, such as the supposed influence on the brain from listening to Mozart.

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