Recent Blogs Posts

Inclusion discussion - #EYTalking - Tues 21 May 8 – 9 pm

Enhance your CPD by sharing ideas with other professionals and using what you have shared to make changes to your provision and ways of working. Then, use your CPD to improve your business practices - and write about the changes you have made and their impact on outcomes for children in your self evaluation / Ofsted SEF.

This CPD was shared on Twitter #EYTalking - I have added information to the suggestions made ...

Here is the 2nd part of the 'Parents as Partners' CPD blog. I hope you find it useful

• Old blog about working with parents from Knutsford Childminding which is still relevant today - Sarah's Blog: Working with parents and the EYFS

• Tell parents how wonderful their children are - share positive little stories about their day

• Remember to thank parents for contributions in newsletter, in an email, by text etc

...

Parents as partners #EYTalking - Tues 14.5.2013

Enhance your CPD by sharing ideas with other professionals and using what you have shared to make changes to your provision and ways of working. Then, use your CPD to improve your business practices - and write about the changes you have made and their impact on outcomes for children in your self evaluation / Ofsted SEF.

This CPD was shared on Twitter #EYTalking - some of the contributions are mine and I have added information ...

Ofsted Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw announced, in March 2012, that it was becoming too expensive to inspect childminders. This was the first indication of the changes ahead...

In her paper ‘Affordable Quality’, published in May, 2012, Elizabeth Truss suggested that all childminders should be de-regulated from Ofsted and Local Authority control and linked instead with agencies which would be newly created through the country.

There was an outcry!

...

Tags: childminder agencies, eyfs, ofsted

Categories

Uncategorized

I've been bloging for over 10 years this was one of my first blogs I just wrote down how I Truely felt. I thought I post it here see what all you think


Fruit machines and me


Let me start at the beginning when I was around 4 to 5 my mother took me to Gt yarmouth and as we walk down the golden mile there where all these fruit machine arcades with all these noises and sounds. I was hooked . When I was 12 years old I walked into my local pub( to buy some ...