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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March 11, 2019
A Peep into the Evolution of Early Childhood Education
Early childhood education (ECE) is the education of children from birth until the age of eight. As these formative years mark the most rapid phase of brain developm...
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March 07, 2019
Tips for Managing Preschool Billing
To most people, managing preschool billing begins and ends with the collection of payments. However, as any business owner who's ever been there would admit, the co...
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March 04, 2019
7 Fun Maths Activities for Preschoolers
We have some fun preschool maths activities in our activity round-up this week.
1.Ishful Maths
Before you start wondering about the ‘w’, no,...
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February 28, 2019
4 Tips to Choose a Staff Time-Clock Software
Time clock software come in all shapes and forms these days. You get them as free stand-alone products; as part of full-fledged management software packages; with o...
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February 25, 2019
What You Should Know About Heuristic Play
Children are at their happiest when given space to explore. They scuttle around their environment touching, handling and chewing on anything they can grab with thei...
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February 21, 2019
The Whys and Hows of Writing Incident Reports for Childcare
Of all the documentation you wish you didn’t have to do as a childcare provider, incident reports aka ouch reports could be sitting right at the top of the list. ...
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February 18, 2019
8 Circle Time Activity Ideas for Preschoolers
When you have a group of chirpy preschoolers with attention spans averaging 10-15 minutes (20 at best!), you won't have a choice but to arm yourself with a massive st...
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February 14, 2019
Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework 2019: What’s in it for Early Years?
The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) has now released the draft for its Education Inspection Framework for 2019. The new framework has been developed in a...
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February 11, 2019
Are You Raising a Mentally Strong Child?
Mental strength is often confused with a person's ability to suppress their emotions. Holding back tears, putting on a brave face when in pain or being defiant migh...
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February 07, 2019
Is Sensory Play Really Worth the Mess?
Sensory play can get quite messy.
Wrestling nasty stains. Shampooing off sticky bits of goo from their tangled locks. Removing mysterious pieces of debris from the...
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