Early Years Tips, Activity Ideas and Best Practices

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Sustained Shared Thinking for early years foundation stage (EYFS)

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November-11-2019

What is Sustained Shared Thinking All About?

Sustained Shared Thinking. Another fancy term for something most educational practitioners do at their setting every day? Well, it is mentioned as one of the Charact...

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Early years providers doing more paperwork than required

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October-24-2019

Early Years Providers Producing More Paperwork than Necessary

The vast majority of early years providers in the UK are producing more paperwork than required, according to a recent survey. The study carried out by Early Years A...

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Safeguarding in New Ofsted Inspection Framework

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August-08-2019

Safeguarding in Ofsted’s New Inspection Framework: What should Early Years Providers Know?

Ofsted's new Education Inspection Framework is all set to be rolled out this September. Although there are a number of new changes across the spectrum, we will focus...

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Guidelines on portion sizes for pre-schoolers

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July-22-2019

Revised Guidelines Published on Portion Sizes for Pre-Schoolers

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) has published the updated version of its 5532 Guide – a resource for planning a healthy, varied and balanced diet for pre-...

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Sensory-based food education for preschools and after school clubs

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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 heal...

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Paediatric First Aid Millie's Mark launches in Scotland

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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 qu...

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Early Years Coalition Launched Ahead of Government Consulation

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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 Con...

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The benefit of reading and why is reading so important for children

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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 nugg...

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How to reduce the waste at your childcare centre

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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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How to implement heuristic play at your setting

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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 nowhere...

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