Sentence examples for maintained nursery from inspiring English sources

Another key element is maintained nursery schools, overseen by councils.

Sherriff is talking about how Westfield's four partners – a children's centre, a voluntary ­sector childcare provider, a maintained nursery, and his own primary school – have managed to integrate services for their local community.

A funding approach that treated maintained nursery schools differently would not be fair to those areas".

In reply to Pat Glass, new childcare minister Sam Gyimah was clear that to do so would be to the disadvantage of councils which have no or few LEA or, as they're known, maintained nursery schools.

Iram Siraj, a professor at the Institute of Education and former ministerial adviser, said closing maintained nurseries was "the biggest act of vandalism against quality in early years".

He said: "There are 49 local authorities with no maintained nurseries, and 43 with only one or two.

The government also says that although there has been a decline in the number of state or maintained nurseries, the number of children attending them hasn't fallen as many now have larger pupil rolls.

The colony was maintained in nursery WT Arabidopsis seedlings and was transferred to fresh plants every two weeks.

Beatrice Merrick, chief executive of Early Education which represents state maintained sector nurseries, says "the devil may be in the detail with this".

He cares for thousands of trees, helps maintain a nursery and leads two planting crews of parolees in the spring and autumn.

Seeds of Capsicum annum L. 'Muria F1' (East West seed International Ltd., Thailand) were sown on coir dust and compost medium (1 1) and were maintained in the nursery for 6 weeks.