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Why Children Need A Healthy, Balanced Diet

WEBCarbohydrates are necessary for children’s diets as they provide fuel for energy levels, allowing children to keep active (and any extra energy is stored in the body until it is needed). Lack of carbohydrates in the diet can result in tiredness, poor mental capability and lack of endurance. They also benefit the brain, heart, digestive and

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3 Ways Settings Can Support Children’s Emotional Health

WEBMental and emotional health is something we’ve only recently seriously started to consider in workplaces and schools. But the earlier we can start supporting children’s emotional health, the better we can set them up for success.

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Keeping Children Safe in the Sun

WEBChildren need to be wearing their hats when in the sun; the best type of hat is one with at least a 3-inch rim that goes all the way around as this will protect the face, ears and the back of the neck. Children should wear sunglasses. Look for children’s sunglasses that have at least 99% UV protection on them (they will be labelled to

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Creating an Enabling Environment

WEBFocusing on child-led learning is an important part of creating an enabling environment; In The Moment planning is an effective way of doing this. In The Moment planning focuses on learning that children initiate themselves. The practitioner will observe this learning and then extend the learning by providing extension activities.

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How to ensure you have positive relationships

WEBNursery Resources talks to Early Years Teacher, Joanna Cummins. Essential to the EYFS is a commitment to working with parents as partners. As research shows, ensuring a good relationship with parents and carers helps to positively impact a child’s learning and development in their early years education.

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Working Effectively with Parents and Carers

WEBThe need to work in partnership with parents and carers is embedded in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) (DfE,2021). For example, it tells us that ‘children benefit from a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers’ (DfE, 2021, p.6). Points made in this statutory document make it clear that engaging with

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The Importance of Communication With Parents in EYFS

WEBIn relation to the importance of communication with parents in the EYFS, The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) seeks to provide ‘partnership’ working between practitioners and parents. It states that key workers should build ‘relationships’ with parents, keep them up-to-date with their child’s progress, respond to observations that

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Unveiling The Benefits of the Progress Check At Age 2

WEBKeep up-to date with everything Nursery Resources! Unveiling The Benefits of the Progress Check At Age 2. As you know it’s now statutory that all children attending a nursery or childcare setting receive a written progress check sometime between their second and third birthday.

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A Guide to Safeguarding in EYFS

WEBThe term safeguarding is used more broadly and according to Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018), it means: Protecting children from maltreatment. Preventing impairment of children’s health or development. Ensuring the children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care.

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Safeguarding in the Early Years

WEBIn an early years setting you should be aware of the LSCBs in your local area. In 2006, the first statutory guidance, Working Together to Safeguard Children, was released, outlining inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people. This was updated in 2010.

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Ideas and Activities for Outdoor Learning in EYFS Settings

WEBOutdoor play and learning in EYFS can have many benefits, including: Increased confidence and self-esteem. Greater ability to begin to play and learn independently. Increased social, sharing and teamwork skills. Development of language skills through wider imaginative play.

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The Forest School Approach and Research Information

WEBForest School is a type of outdoor education that allows for the furthering of personal, social and technical skills. The primary goals of a Forest School are to. Encourage exploration and curiosity. Empower children in the natural environment. Encourage spatial awareness and motor development.

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Risk Management in UK Early Years Setting

WEBRegardless of the format of your risk assessment, these steps will help you to create a balanced and versatile risk assessment for use in your nursery or preschool. Step 1: Identity: Identify Risks and Hazards. Begin by conducting a risk assessment on your premises. Start indoors, making your way through each area or room in your nursery and

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Tracking Development In The EYFS

WEBTracking a child’s development in the EYFS can be a very time-consuming process for early years practitioners, but it is essential for an individual’s overall development. There are many ways in which practitioners can track a child’s development, there isn’t a set template. As long as the right information is recorded and reviewed you

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How to Make Safety a Priority at Your Nursery

WEBThis means parents should be encouraged to give their input on what they think could improve safety on the premises, or on outings. In addition, parents can offer advice, point out potential hazards, and be a part of the solution. This can be done in the form of questionnaires. By making health and safety a community effort, you’ll find that

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Why accurate recording of allergens is essential in the EYFS

WEBIt may now have been a few years since new allergens laws came into place. We understand that many of you will already be practising allergy-friendly and safe childcare, however, with the recent news about companies failing to protect customers with allergies, we thought it was important to remind you of why allergen awareness is so …

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Mandatory Reporting of FGM

WEBFemale Genital Mutilation (FGM) is illegal in England and Wales under the FGM Act 2003. It is a form of child abuse and violence against women. FGM comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. From October 31st onwards a duty which requires regulated health and social …

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Teaching British Values in EYFS

WEBThese British Values Resources have been created to help and support early years settings actively promote British values, with a bundle including multiple activity sheets, flashcards, and wall displays. Starting from as little as £9.99, pack bundles are available in bronze, silver, or gold, depending on the size of your setting.

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