(Photograph) - Children were entranced at the Royal Festival Hall in London watching actress Ruth Calkin in 'Knock! Knock! Who's There?', the latest production by the critically-acclaimed Oily Cart...
(Photograph) - Zyria Ansah-Garwood, and William Burles and Emily Ratsma, both six, of the Fox Primary School in London were among 20 children aged four to 16 and 26 schools to win Artworks awards at...
A contract to manage a holiday playscheme for the House of Commons has been awarded to Kinderquest. The nursery chain, which manages 45 workplace nurseries and 20 holiday playschemes around the UK,...
Ready for Red Nose Day? This year's colossal charity fundraiser is on March 16. Bob the Builder has been recruited by the Comic Relief team for the nursery fundraising effort. Nannies can have as much...
Twenty per cent of child deaths in England are caused by road injuries and about 13,000 fewer children a year would be killed or injured if a traffic speed limit of 20 miles per hour in residential...
The National Day Nurseries Association looks set to meet the Government's National Childcare Strategy target of 40 per cent of settings achieving quality accreditation by 2004. Figures released by the...
(Photograph) - Nicole Blanchflower and Jasmine Foubister got in touch with Matey, an Australian bearded dragon who made a visit to Westhill Pre-school Playgroup in Aberdeen with Roland Digby from...
Some food for thought in your professional career The Buskers Guide to Playing Out by Philip Waters (Common Threads Publications, 8.50, 07000 785215) Reviewed by Miranda Walker, playwork trainer
Pull stories out of a box and choose props for role play with activities suggested by Helen Bromley to help children explore the traditional aspects of Christmas This project aims to offer suggestions...
A leading deaf children's charity has welcomed the Government's decision to implement a screening programme for detecting hearing loss in babies soon after they are born. Public health minister Yvette...