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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June 10, 2019
Early Years Organisations Launch Survey Ahead of Government Consultation
A new coalition of the UK’s leading early years organizations including the NDNA, PACEY and Early Years Alliance have launched a survey ahead of the Government Co...
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June 06, 2019
Why Should You Encourage Children to Read?
There was a time when the regal hardbound encyclopaedias, dictionaries and atlases were looked up to as supreme sources of information. They offered fascinating nug...
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June 03, 2019
5 Ways to Reduce Your Nursery’s Waste Footprint
From recycling cardboard boxes and paper waste for craft activities to maintaining compost pits, most childcare centres follow a solid waste management routine these days...
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May 30, 2019
Cheqdin's Childcare Digest: May 2019
From the announcements about the all-important Ofsted inspection framework to the latest OECD figures on the countries ranking the highest for childcare expenses an...
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May 27, 2019
5 Fun STEM Activities for After School Clubs
With technology-addiction gnawing away on attention-spans, it can be a challenge to come up with activity ideas that are exciting enough to capture the children’s...
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May 23, 2019
How to Get Started with Heuristic Play
Now, now, now, before you conjure up the picture of some fancy pedagogic approach that will get you scrambling for funds, let’s give you a heads-up, it’s nowher...
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May 20, 2019
Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework 2019 to go live from September
Ofsted’s new education inspection framework and the accompanying handbooks will come into force from September 2019. The new framework is expected to bring down t...
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May 16, 2019
Forest Kindergartens: Beyond Logs, Leaves and Free Play
When Friedrich Froebel first came up with the concept of kindergarten (children’s garden), what he envisioned was an enriching environment that offered unstructured...
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May 13, 2019
Things to Remember when Recruiting Early Years Staff in the UK
One of the most important boxes to tick when starting a new childcare business is building the right team. As children are often unable to vocalise their feelings o...
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May 09, 2019
Leeds Tackles Preschool Obesity with Programme Henry
Leeds becomes the first city in the UK to reverse its childhood obesity rate. Henry, a council-led programme is being hailed as the key to the city’s success.
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