The Early Years & Childcare Blog
Expert insights, practical tips, creative activities, ideas and inspiration to enhance your early years practice—explore it all on the Cheqdin Blog.
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July 15, 2019
5 Ways to Combat Summer Math Loss
Summer math loss is real. As much as we like children to embrace the summer holidays with sheer abandon, unshackled from routine and workbooks, all the fun can come with ...
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July 11, 2019
8 Reasons Why Preschools and After School Clubs Should Use Direct Debit
1. Helps Bring Down Late Payments
With most parents juggling busy work schedules, it’s common for many to miss invoices in the mail or forget payment dates. Dire...
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July 08, 2019
Get the Kids Outdoors with Geocaching
For the little Jakes and Fancy Nancy Clancys who are tired of the same old paddling pools and pebble painting, here is treasure-hunt in a modern avatar. Fun, free a...
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July 04, 2019
Sensory-Based Food Education: What can Preschools and After School Clubs do?
For all the picky eaters who are happy to survive on chicken nuggets and fish fingers, sensory based-food education could open the doors to a whole new world of hea...
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July 01, 2019
Summer Craft Ideas for Out of School Clubs
Ideas never seem enough when you are tasked with keeping the creative young minds engaged all summer. To make your task a tad easier, here's a roundup of some cute ...
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June 27, 2019
Cheqdin Childcare Digest - June 2019
A Mighty Big Announcement from Cheqdin.
For all our dear customers and childcare providers who have been struggling with manual reconciliations for invoices, we ha...
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June 24, 2019
Paediatric First Aid Accreditation, Millie’s Mark, Launches in Scotland
Childcare settings in Scotland will now be eligible to apply for Millie’s Mark, the gold standard in Paediatric First Aid for childcare providers. The childcare q...
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June 20, 2019
A Beginner’s Guide to Daycare Record Keeping
Record keeping is not everyone’s cup of tea. But if you are starting a daycare, it is one aspect of the business you cannot afford to slide to the backburner. As ...
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June 17, 2019
Playful Storytelling with Shadow Puppets and Story Boxes
For the days when the little minds wander off when you bring out the books, here are some ideas to help you breathe life into stories and nudge the sleepy heads to ...
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June 13, 2019
GDPR One Year On: What Should Childcare Providers Know?
After all the frenzy it set off with its arrival, the European General Data Protection and Regulation (GDPR) turned a year old on the 25th of May 2019. GDPR was intended ...
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