Monthly Archives: August 2010

Working with children and animals

Intriguing to read that hotel heiress Paris Hilton would love to be a nursery school teacher because she ‘loves kids’. I’m sure she’d be great, and most of her skills could be put to use to fulfil the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage!

There would be some fabulous role play sessions with Paris’s extensive wardrobe, along with some lovely creative activities making perfumes and putting in hair extensions.

Paris Hilton - what are nurseries missing?

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The milk train rolls on

The Coalition Government may be ripping into the National Health Service and state education, but some things are obviously sacrosanct – witness the recent bumbling over free milk for children under five in daycare. No sooner had health minister Anne Milton suggested that the £50m scheme could be scrapped, than David Cameron leapt in to pledge the Government’s unswerving support for the mini bottles.

The move was obviously prompted less by a conviction that the milk is a good thing for children’s health, than by nightmare visions of the chants of ‘Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher’ that have pursued the former PM ever since she abolished free milk for over-sevens in 1971.

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Breastfeeding calendar

I read last month that a group of Essex mums have created a ‘Breast of Essex’ calendar to promote breastfeeding.

Apparently the four mums from Witham and five mums from Braintree in Essex became calendar girls after agreeing to feature in the calendar designed by a group of trained volunteers who support breastfeeding mums in Essex called the Bosom Buddies.

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