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June 24, 2011

The Little Lost Penguin

Filed under: General Chit-Chat — Tags: Beach, labels, labels4kids, Lost, New Zeland, Penguin, South Pole, Waddle — Ann-Maree @ 1:00 pm

A rather unfamiliar object washed (or rather waddled) up on New Zeland’s Peka Peka beach yesterday, a 10 month old Emperor Penguin, the first time in 44 years that a penguin had been sited in these waters.

more than 2,000 miles away from his natural habitat of the South Pole this penguin must have taken a wrong turn out for his daily fish feast and kept swimming until he hit the warmer climates of New Zelad. Used to eating the snow and drinking the sea water to keep hydrated he’s got slightly confused and began to eat the wet sand. Colin Miskelly from the Museum of New Zeland said “It doesn’t realise that the sand isn’t going to melt inside it,” Miskelly said. “They typically eat snow, because it’s their only liquid.” It is possible that in swimming through the warmer seas the Penguin has picked up an infection or disease, which is why scientists are reluctant to attempt to move the penguin back to His natural habitat, also keeping a 80 cm penguin cool for the journey would be quite problematic.

The South Pole is in constant darkness for 24hours of the day at this time of the year also making the transportation difficult. It would seem the only hope for this little fella is for him to swim his way back, hopefully on a full belly of fish to keep him fuelled up for the journey. Good luck! Hopefully he will swim in the right direction this time.

Picture courtesy of www.theguardian.co.uk

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June 20, 2011

Lunchboxes could contain 12 teaspoons of sugar

Filed under: General Chit-Chat — Tags: Cold packs, fat, food, health, kids, labels4kids, Lunchbox, safety., school, sugar, uk, usa, vinyl labes, warnings — Ann-Maree @ 4:20 pm

Parents could be packing more than 12 teaspoons of sugar into their children’s lunch-boxes by giving them snacks and treats designed specifically for Kids. Which? magazine assessed the nutritional value of items that fit into children’s lunchboxes and found some were “full of salt and sugar”.

The report found that “one pack of Dairylea Lunchables Ham ‘n’ Cheese Crackers contained 1.8g of salt – more than half the recommended daily allowance of a four to six-year-old; a 200ml Robinsons Fruit Shoot orange juice drink contained 23g of sugar, which equals almost five teaspoons; Kellogg’s Frosties Cereal & Milk Bars contained seven different sugars, with sugar making up almost a third (8g) of a 25g bar; and a Munch Bunch Double Up Fromage Frais contained more than two teaspoons (12.4g) of sugar and only 2.25g of fruit puree”. (ITN, itn.co.uk, Updated: 16/11/2009 07:23)

Which? are calling for more obvious and detailed labeling to make it easier for parents to choose snacks that are better for their children. The magazine editor Martyn Hocking said: “The best way to beat the lunch-box baddies is by checking the nutrition and ingredient information. We’d also like to see the rules on health and nutrition claims made tougher so that there’s less confusion on the supermarket shelves.” It would seem with all the conflicting information out there the only way to ensure how much sugar we put into our childrens lunch box is to make everything that goes in it ourselves.

The last thing you need after finaly finding out what to put in the lunchbox is for your child to lose their lunchbox, so why not get the labels4kids Dishwasher-proof vinyl labels, completely customised with your own colours and designs you’ll never lose your lunchbox or water bottle again!

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Teacher Training on the job

Filed under: General Chit-Chat — Tags: education, iron on clothing labels, iron on labels, labels4kids, school, sew on clothing labels, sew-on labels, stick-on clothing labels, syllabus, teacher training, teachers, university, vinyl labels — Ann-Maree @ 2:33 pm

The Education Secretary, Michael Gove, is planning to set up 100 teaching schools, similar to the teaching hospitals we already have, from this September.

Eventually, between 400 and 500 schools will receive this designation. The idea is to select schools classified as “outstanding” to carry out the task and get them to help neighbouring schools to take on some trainees. Each trainee will be assigned a mentor. But how do you think this will impact on our children’s education? Obviously you can’t argue that the best way to learn is to watch how the best perform, but surely having to teach the children in the class and assess the progress made by the prospective new teacher will impact on the childrens education. Would the current system of achieving your education degree and then having a year in placement not be easier, the teachers will still get the experience needed but it will have less impact on the education of the children. A tough decision.

It’s not to early to prepare for the start of the school term in September, make sure that the new school uniform you’ve inevitably had to buy (growth spurts are more like growth marathons these days!) is all labelled up with www.labels4kids.com. With a great range of personalised washproof and dishwasher-proof vinyl labels, iron on clothing labels, sew on clothing labels, stick on clothing labels it’s easy to stop your child having to rake through the lost property box!

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Summer’s here and so’s the Wacky Wimbledon fashion

Filed under: General Chit-Chat — Tags: alex noble, Center court, dress, fashion, Federer, labels, labels4kids, lady gaga, name labels, serena williams, summer, tennis, vinyl labels, wimbledon, wimbledon 2011 — Ann-Maree @ 2:11 pm

: Designed by Lady Gaga’s Designer Alex Noble

It’s that time of the year again, the world’s eyes are forcused on the Center Courts to watch the likes of Nadal, Murray, The Williams Sisters and more battle it out for 1st place. Whilst most people will be following the battle between Nadal and Federer (the two favorites for 2011- Nadal with odds of 6/1 and Federer 7/2) others will be following the on court fashions displayed this year. Attention has been focused on the ever shortening skirts and dress designs of the female tennis champs on court (the likes of Maria Sharapova for example) but it’s the off court fashions that are capturing the headlines so far. One dress in particular, worn by Bethanie Mattek-Sands, stands out from the crowd, created with green chiffon netting and a strappy corset fashioned out of tennis balls this Alex Noble design would definitely be a head turner in the stands. The Dress, along with others designed by top British designers, including Vivienne Westwood and Stella McCartney and worn by the female players will be auctioned off during the Wimbledon tournament with all proceeds going to WTA charities and the British Fashion Council’s Princess of Wales Charitable Trust.

So if your planning on heading down to Wimbledon this year make sure you check out the action and see if you can pick up any one off designer pieces. Also with Wimbledon comes an influx of youngsters joining tennis clubs around the uk, if your child is taking part in sport this summer remember to label their clothes and equipment with the range of Washproof and dishwasher-proof labels offered by Labels4kids ltd see vinyl name labels for your tennis rackets or stikins stick on clothing labels! Check out the website at www.labels4kids.com

Photos courtesy of CBBC Newsround.

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