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Early years groups called to speak to official inquiry

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  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisations and local authorities from across Scotland have been invited to give oral evidence to the education committee as part of the Scottish Parliament's ongoing early years inquiry. The committee has received 50 written responses to the inquiry, and is now calling on a selection of representatives from the sector to submit a further report and make a presentation at committee meetings throughout November.

Year 2 children from Liberton Primary School in Edinburgh

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  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Year 2 children from Liberton Primary School in Edinburgh pretend they're swimming with sharks at one of the first dance workshops to be rolled out across Scotland. The three-year Dance in Schools project, led by YDance, is funded by the Scottish Executive Health Department as part of the Active Schools programme. Teachers will learn how to give dance lessons using YDance's CDs 'AnyBodyCanDance' and '321Go!' YDance can be contacted on 0141 552 7712. Photo Paul Reid

Teeing off

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  • Wednesday, October 19, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Golf has proved the surprising hit of the curriculum, says June McHugh, headteacher at Greenfields Childrens Centre 'Slice', 'putt' and 'birdie' are all terms that are known to the children here since they have been encouraged to take up golf. The achievement they feel when they hit that hoop is fantastic, and we now leave the equipment out throughout the day so that they can have a go whenever they feel like it.

Apprenticeship taster launches

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  • Tuesday, April 5, 2011
    • | Nursery World
Birmingham-based Employment Needs Training Agency and Crackerjack Training have joined forces to offer a pre-apprenticeship training course for 16- to 18-year-olds.

Mini Topic: Playdough

    Features
  • Wednesday, August 28, 2002
    • | Nursery World
There's no need to stick to basic playdough with these ideas for more creative materials from Kevin Kelman

In brief...

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
New fathers are expected to be offered six months' unpaid paternity leave in the forthcoming Work and Families Bill. A spokeswoman for the Department for Trade and Industry said the Bill was expected within the next two weeks. Fathers currently receive two weeks' paid paternity leave at a minimum payment of 106 per week.

Heads 'unprepared' for community role

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Headteachers must be equipped for a public community role if they are to effectively lead extended schools, according to a senior researcher at the thinktank Demos. John Craig, who has carried out extensive research into the extended schools programme, was responding to the first detailed evaluation of it by researchers from the universities of Manchester and Newcastle.

Precious Moments

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  • Monday, September 19, 2016
    • | Nursery World
Busy Bees Childcare is introducing the iConnect app so parents don’t miss out on milestones.

Safe funding for early years is welcomed

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Early years organisation NIPPA has welcomed the Labour Party's commitment to ring-fence funds for the early years sector in Northern Ireland as a 'timely, landmark decision'. The secretary of state for Northern Ireland and Wales, Peter Hain, delivered a series of commitments to improve children's life chances in his speech at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.

Open for business

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2005
    • | Nursery World
Building work has begun on a new private nursery in Billericay, Essex. Dizzy Ducks Day Nursery, in the grounds of Buttsbury County Infant School, will offer 30 places for children nought to five years and is due to open in November. For information see www.dizzyducks.co.uk.

Parents step up battle with local council

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  • Tuesday, April 19, 2011
    • | Nursery World
A group of parents who are fighting to save 28 children's centres in Hampshire from being merged or privatised travelled to Downing Street on Monday (18 April) to submit a petition of 22,000 signatures.

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