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Archive | Pre-schoolers
Charity run is child’s play for Eady, aged two
Posted on 03 February 2012.
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Failed: The great free nursery revolution – The Independent
Posted on 03 February 2012.
It costs £1.9bn a year and has been heralded as the best way of transforming children’s chances and driving up standards in schools. But a new report from the National Audit Office has cast doubt over whether the Government’s drive to provide free nursery places for three and four-year-olds does anything to improve results when [...]
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Free nursery places may not help children’s education, watchdog finds | The Guardian
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Free nursery places for pre-school children may not have a lasting impact on their education, the government’s spending watchdog has suggested. A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found it was not clear whether government moves to fund nursery education for three- and four-year-olds was leading to longer-term benefits. While children’s development at age [...]
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Damning report finds £2billion free nursery scheme ‘has failed’ | Mail Online
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Labour’s multi-billion pound investment in free nursery education has failed to raise school standards, a damning auditors’ report revealed yesterday. Free sessions for all three and four-year-olds – costing up to £1.9billion-a-year – have failed to translate into improved exam results at age seven. The scheme was specifically intended to boost children’s development throughout primary [...]
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Competitive parents ‘taking joy out of childhood’ – Telegraph
Posted on 29 January 2012.
Mothers and fathers risk undermining their children’s natural development with evening and weekend lessons in the three-Rs – in addition to more than 40 hours of school work and extra curricular activities, it is claimed. Alexia Bracewell, the head of fee-paying Longacre School in Guildford, Surrey, told how parents of three-year-olds regularly approached teachers to [...]
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Why I let my son dress like a girl for five years… and why for his sake I put a stop to it | Mail Online
Posted on 27 January 2012.
As a toddler, my son Henry used to sleep in a nightie, after I gave up on trying to wrestle him into pyjamas. Later, he took to calling himself Stephanie, Jean, Olive or, most frequently, Miss Argentina. His favourite game was wearing his elder sisters’ sequin party dresses while running his imaginary boutique ‘Slinx’ or [...]
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Rastamouse most complained about children’s TV show after sparking racism row | Mail Online
Posted on 16 January 2012.
A television series about crime-busting Rastafarian mice on the BBC was the most complained about children’s programme last year, it has been revealed. Rastamouse attracted more than 200 complaints because of the way it ‘stereotyped black people’ and because of the ‘patois’ language used by the Jamaican mouse characters. The CBeebies show, which has run [...]
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BBC News – Guidelines on preschool food from School Food Trust
Posted on 16 January 2012.
New guidelines on nutrition for preschool children, aimed at reducing obesity, have been published. The advice includes information on what food young children should eat, recipes and help for fussy eaters. The guidelines, from the School Food Trust, follows a report which said that some young children were being given food better suited to adults. [...]
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Nurseries ‘need food advice’ to stop obesity crisis – Telegraph
Posted on 16 January 2012.
More than a fifth of children are now overweight or obese by the time they start school, according to official figures. Studies indicate that children who are fat at five are highly likely to continue being overweight into adolscence, and possibly beyond. Consequently, the School Food Trust has launched a new guide telling nursery staff [...]
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Nurseries to put curries and risotto on the menu in shake-up to meet new nutrition guidelines | Mail Online
Posted on 16 January 2012.
Fish fingers, chicken nuggets, chips and cheesy pasta will no longer have a place on the menus of the nation’s nurseries under new nutrition guidelines. Lamb curry, mixed bean and root vegetable stew, lasagne, risotto, pilchards and tuna are the distinctly cordon bleu creations being recommended for toddlers. The new voluntary guidelines have been backed [...]
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Ofsted: nurseries to be marked down if children don’t make friends – Telegraph
Posted on 12 January 2012.
Ofsted will put a greater emphasis on children’s personal development and early education as part of new-style system used to assess the quality of nurseries, pre-schools and childminders. For the first time, childcare providers will no longer be given separate ratings on health and safety or the extent to which they promote healthy lifestyles. A [...]
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Family mentors take on early years support | Society | The Guardian
Posted on 10 January 2012.
“I wanted to do something like social work – but obviously I didn’t want all the paperwork,” says Tracey Hawkins, to laughter, at the Sure Start children’s centre in Whitley, an area of south Reading where deprivation levels are high. “I just wanted to help out families. I don’t want something like Baby P to [...]
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Nurseries and childminders face penalties ¿if children in their care don¿t feel loved¿ | Mail Online
Posted on 10 January 2012.
Childminders and nurseries face being penalised by Ofsted in future if they cannot prove that youngsters in their care ‘feel loved’, it was revealed yesterday. Staff will have to demonstrate they are ‘forming appropriate bonds and emotional attachments’ with babies and toddlers to help make them feel secure. The watchdog plans to place greater emphasis [...]
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Lunchboxes made awesome – in pictures | Life and style | The Guardian
Posted on 09 January 2012.
In what has to be the most time-consuming way of making sure your children eat properly, parents in Japan have been turning their lunchboxes into works of art known as Kyaraben or cartoon bento. Now the trend has spread to the US where graphic designer Heather Sitarzewski has been making her son his own pasta [...]
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Children need a daily routine to succeed at school – Telegraph
Posted on 03 January 2012.
The study from the Prince’s Trust, the Prince of Wales’s youth charity, finds that almost four in 10 pupils who fail to achieve at least five C-grades in their GCSEs do not have a set bedtime. Young people with lower school grades were also twice as likely as their more successful classmates not to have [...]
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Me and my school photo
Posted on 03 December 2011.
Anthony Horowitz remembers the brutal experiences that sparked his passion for escapism
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Music to grow up by – The Guardian
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Do your parents’ passions shape your own? Guardian music writers look back on their formative years In the evenings, after he had set down his briefcase and taken his first sip of gin and tonic, my dad would teach me how to rock’n’roll dance in the living room. I would be swooshed into the air, [...]
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‘Scam’ milks £10m from taxpayers – The Independent
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Ministers are to order a review of the nursery school free milk scheme, claiming abuse of the system means the Government is being billed up to £1 a pint. ‘Scam’ milks £10m from taxpayers – Education News – Education – The Independent. » Inline Ad Purchase: Intext Link
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Fury over annoying ‘My Muvver’ ad that tells children it¿s mum – not Santa – who brings the Christmas presents | Mail Online
Posted on 25 November 2011.
It only comes once a year and brings happiness and joy to millions of children up and down the country. But a television advertisement is ruining the magic of Christmas, according to furious parents. The 40-second Littlewoods commercial features a nativity play in which children sing a song about how it is ‘muvver’, and not [...]
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BNP threatens protest at headteacher’s home over sex education proposals | Education | The Guardian
Posted on 25 November 2011.
British National party activists have warned a primary school’s headteacher and chair of governors that they will face demonstrations outside their homes if they do not drop plans to extend sex education lessons to children aged four. A delegation from the far-right party picketed Grenoside Community primary school in Sheffield over proposals that would see [...]
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Today’s kindergarten kids ‘are already on the road to obesity’ as the whole nation gets fatter | Mail Online
Posted on 25 November 2011.
Kindergarten kids are getting heavier and rising numbers are on their way to becoming overweight and obese in the years to come. There has been an ‘entire shift’ in the weight of young children, with kids brought up today heavier than those brought up in the 1970s and 80s, a new study has revealed. ‘It’s [...]
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Californian 5-year-old handcuffed and charged with battery – Telegraph
Posted on 25 November 2011.
A Californian five-year-old was handcuffed and charged with battery after allegedly kicking a police officer in the knee. Michael Davis had his hands tied behind his back with zip ties and was driven in a police car to psychiatric hospital after apparently lashing out at the officer during a meeting at his primary school. Californian [...]
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Four York nurseries fail to meet child welfare standards
Posted on 24 November 2011.
Four nurseries in York have been told they have failed to meet legal requirements on child welfare.
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Child poverty warning as cuts threaten to close 3,500 Sure Start centres
Posted on 14 November 2011.
Flagship scheme for children is in danger as budget restrictions bite, warns former government adviser
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The nursery class with four twin-sets
Posted on 06 November 2011.
A nursery class at a London primary school is almost entirely made up of twins after four sets joined this year.
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A nanny? No, prep school is cheaper… Number of children in private education rises
Posted on 06 November 2011.
The number of boys and girls who board at prep schools has risen in the past year
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Future gang members ‘can be spotted at age three’
Posted on 02 November 2011.
Children as young as three can be identified as violent gang members of the future, according to a new Government report.
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School odds stacked against summer babies, says IFS
Posted on 01 November 2011.
Children born in the summer in England are at an academic disadvantage throughout school, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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E. coli closes Tri Ceffyl Bach nursery on Anglesey
Posted on 22 October 2011.
The owners of a nursery on Anglesey at the centre of an E. coli outbreak say they are closing the business.
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Snap! Nursery school staff seeing double after FIVE sets of identical twins enroll
Posted on 20 October 2011.
Being able to tell one set of twins apart is every teacher’s nightmare, so you can imagine the panic when five sets of identical twins cropped up in the same nursery class.
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Ditch the buggy or your child will get fat: Minister says three-year-olds should be forced to walk
Posted on 19 October 2011.
Parents told to ditch pushchairs as pre-schoolers are capable of walking
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Freak tornado rips roof off nursery in Lake District leaving terrified toddlers surrounded by the wreckage
Posted on 19 October 2011.
A freak tornado ripped off a nursery roof leaving frightened toddlers surrounded by wreckage.
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Three E.coli cases at Tri Ceffyl Bach nursery, Anglesey
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Three cases of E. coli have been confirmed in an outbreak at a children’s nursery on Anglesey.
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Children as young as four taught in ‘titan’ primary schools
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Record numbers of children are being taught in “titan” primary schools amid a desperate scramble for reception places across England.
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Girl is forced to stay at nursery as all primary schools are full
Posted on 08 October 2011.
A four-year-old girl is being forced to stay at nursery instead of going to school because every primary in her borough is full.
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Pity the children condemned to the care carousel
Posted on 02 October 2011.
Thousands of children are trapped in a care and adoption system that needs a radical overhaul.
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Workplace nurseries feel the squeeze
Posted on 02 October 2011.
For parents working unsocial hours, a workplace creche is an essential lifeline. But many are being closed as firms cut back
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And today, children, we will do cave art
Posted on 01 October 2011.
How finger painting shows hunter-gatherer children went to ‘prehistoric pre-school’
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Children’s prehistoric cave paintings discovered
Posted on 01 October 2011.
Archaeologists have uncovered cave art providing evidence that hunter-gather children may have attended a form of prehistoric pre-school.
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Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says
Posted on 01 October 2011.
Research on Dordogne cave art shows children learned to finger-paint in palaeolithic age, approximately 13,000 years ago
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What are the essential British children’s books?
Posted on 28 September 2011.
Children’s books are one of the best ways of sharing culture rather than compartmentalising it, but there are some traditional English reads
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Dress witches in pink and avoid white paper to prevent racism in nuseries, expert says
Posted on 26 September 2011.
Teachers should censor the toy box to replace witches’ black hats with a pink ones and dress fairies in darker shades, according to a consultant who has issued advice to local authorities.
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Camilla reading visit changes seven-year-old’s life
Posted on 26 September 2011.
A boy of seven who hated books has undergone an astonishing transformation after being asked to read aloud to the Duchess of Cornwall.
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‘I’ve spent $30,000 on my little girl’s pageants this year!’
Posted on 23 September 2011.
Toddlers and Tiaras unearths another staggeringly out of touch mother
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Private schools may shut as parents turn to state sector
Posted on 18 September 2011.
Holidays are cancelled and second homes sold to pay fees at institutions with uncertain futures
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Parents’ outrage as Toddlers & Tiaras star aged SIX gyrates on runway at New York Fashion Week
Posted on 18 September 2011.
New York Fashion Week was plunged into controversy today after a six-year-old was allowed to gyrate in skimpy clothing on the catwalk.
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Nursery school ‘bigots’
Posted on 15 September 2011.
Four children in east London were accused of bigotry at nursery school after their teachers reported them for using racist or homophobic language, it was revealed today.
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‘Racists’ aged THREE
Posted on 15 September 2011.
Toddlers among thousands of children accused of bigotry after name-calling
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Should schools report kids for bad or racist language?
Posted on 15 September 2011.
A report from pressure group the Manifesto Club says examples of good behaviour should be set by teachers not monitored by local government.
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The kids are all right in daycare
Posted on 14 September 2011.
A recent study on the cortisol levels of children who are cared for outside the home might be causing needless worry
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