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Finalist for Nursery Food Award by Nursery World

Elmscot Day Nursery short-listed for Nursery Food Award Elmscot Day Nursery has received a nomination for their provision of high quality nutritious meals. The nursery world awards recognise the hard work the team have put into providing an outstanding menu.  Jenna Holloway, Deputy Manager commented “As a company Elmscot prides

Careers and Training News
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Removal of GCSE’s for Level 3 Early Years Educator courses

The requirements for students starting Level 3 Early Years Educator courses to have GCSE English and Maths at Grade C or above has now been removed just before the new funding year begins on 1 August. The decision has been made to remove this stipulation just before the new funding begins, this

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Nominated for ‘Provision for Two year olds’ Nursery award

Nursery settings nominated for the Nursery award “Provision for Two year olds’ Kidspiration Childcare and Education, Leeds has worked hard to provide the highest quality care and education to children and have recently been recognised for their efforts. The nursery has been nominated for ‘Provision for Two year olds’ award

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A new Montessori Early Years Educator qualification starts

Are you interested in gaining a Montessori  Early Years Educator qualification? A full time one year Montessori Early Years Educator qualification course is being run by Montessori Centre International. The course starts next month and it is the first time they have run this full time course, student finance is available if

How to reduce your workload
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Reduce workload by using nursery management software

Choosing the best nursery management software for your nursery So let’s take a look at choosing the right nursery management software to help reduce workload and improve your performance. Choosing the right management software is never easy as there are quite a few to choose from, however spending time choosing

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Explaining the changes to the Common Inspection Framework

This is a letter from HMCI outlining the changes the Ofsted Common Inspection Framework will bring for Early Years settings from 1st September 2015 August 2015 Sir Michael Wilshaw Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector Dear Colleague As Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, my aim is simple: I want the best possible education

Early Years Training
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Implementing Heuristic play into Early Years

Heuristic play offers vast learning opportunities for children of all ages, items used in heuristic play allow children to use their exploratory and imagination skills. Children will explore each item and us these to possibly represent another object. Many of the resources used are everyday objects some of which may

Early Years Training
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Using story sacks in the Early Years

Sharing story sacks with children offers a multi sensory approach to the reading process, it will also help develop their early literacy skills. A story sack is a large cotton bag containing a book and props to support the story, depending on the sizes of the props a story sack

Early Years Practice
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Why children’s mealtimes can be tricky

Supporting children’s mealtimes Children’s mealtimes with can create key issues and challenges for both parents and practitioners. To help support practitioners with mealtimes it is best to look at why these times of the day can be challenging. For both children and practitioners mealtimes can be stressful, how this shouldn’t

Early Years Practice
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Teaching children about concepts of shape and size

Concepts of shape and size Shape and size are concepts that are important for children to learn about. They form part of the Early Years Foundation Stage, shape, space and measures  , the questions asked is do practitioners know how to plan and implement activities to help children learn about

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