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Celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in your setting with a wealth of inspiration from this FREE Activity Ideas Sheet! Keep children busy and help them to learn about The Queen, Royal family and the importance of the Jubilee celebrations. Links activity ideas to the areas of learning and development! 👉CLICK HERE for full details and […]

You can now have ALL EYFS guidance outcome statements right at your fingertips with our NEW EYFS Pocket Cards! Based on the Development Matters  non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage, these EYFS pocket cards provide a quick and easy way to monitor and assess the development progress of children in relation to […]

The benefits of learning outdoors are ENORMOUS! Children can: 💖Develop a love, appreciation and respect for nature whilst learning about flowers, insects, animals and their habitats. 👁Explore their senses, talking about what they can see, hear, smell, touch and taste from the world outdoors. 🍁Experiment with natural materials and exploring natural colours and textures. 🔤Increase […]

Following the lifting of rules and restrictions throughout the UK, we have updated our Coronavirus resources …hopefully for the final time! 🤞🏻 Whilst the threat of the pandemic is easing, it is important to remain aware of the risks and do what we can to protect those who are vulnerable. It is vital that we […]

🌍This Earth Day we are thrilled to be launching our Climate Change Activity Pack! Bursting with bundles of activity inspiration, this pack will help teach children all about the causes, effects and solutions of climate change and what we can do to look after our planet. Through various worksheets, games and activities children can learn new […]

On the 22nd of April we celebrate Earth Day! 🌎 A day to spread awareness of environmental issues and take action on what more we can all do to reverse environmental destruction and stop global warming. Find out more about Earth Day and access the Environmental Education Resource Library on the Earth Day Website! 🤔How […]

Is your paperwork up to date? Do you have everything in place to meet requirements? We have updated our FREE Childminder Document Checklists to include links to our NEW Managing Challenging Behaviour and Service Evaluation Resources! Our FREE checklists can be used to better understand requirements and assist you in putting everything in place to […]

📣Our Preparing for Inspection HOT TOPIC page has now been updated… …following the publication of the NEW Quality Framework for the daycare of children, childminding and school aged childcare  for Scottish providers… AND the release of our NEW Service Evaluation Resources! For providers in Scotland the Care Inspectorate’s Quality Framework for the daycare of children, childminding […]

For EYFS Childcare providers the perfect support tool for self-evaluation and preparing for inspection is HERE!👏 MindingKids NEW EYFS Service Evaluation is READY! This NEW resource will help you evaluate ALL aspects of your childcare service under each of the key judgements of Ofsted’s Early years inspection handbook. Consider each of the ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ grade […]