News

MindingKids was delighted to meet with Tracey Joyce last week, the project lead of Your Childminding Journey, the new online learning and development resource for prospective and practicing childminders in Scotland. Tracey had invited MindingKids to discuss the benefits of the new resource and ask for ways in which we could support it’s promotion. Your Childminding […]

Our very popular multicultural calendar has a new design this year and features yet even more special dates, festivals and awareness events! … A whopping 97 in total! Includes an image and short description of each special day or festival PLUS some simple activity ideas for each event! Excellent for long term planning, enhancing children’s learning […]

Our seasonal news updates summarise the latest childcare news plus which MindingKids resources have been added or revised so you can easily keep on track and up to date. The clocks have gone back, the nights are drawing in and the heating is on! Autumn is well and truly here! WELCOME to all our new […]

Get organised for 2018 with this handy Activity Planner! See the whole year on just one A4 sheet! Plan out your topics / themes for the entire year or note down as you go to remind you of what you have covered. Includes list of 2018 special dates and festivals  Plus room to write down birthdays […]

Great news if you are a childminder who employs an assistant or if you run a nursery, school club or other large childcare setting…we have added MORE to our Childminder Assistant Employment Pack! In addition to the pack’s job advertisement and recruitment resources, we have now added items to the pack that will assist with […]

Thanks to my wonderful sister Fiona at Kids Club English , we have another exciting activity pack to add to the collection! Perfect for the harvest season, The Enormous Turnip Activity Pack can be used with or without the story to support learning about people, animals, colours and numbers, whilst also building on literacy and vocabulary skills. Includes ALL of the following: […]

Fantastic News for MindingKids Members! We have made some improvements to the website so members can now access ALL of the downloads via the product description pages! Simply browse through the shop pages at your leisure and download any resource immediately via the links in the download area. Alternatively, you can still access everything from […]

EEEEEKK!!!!! HALLOWEEN is almost here again!!! Grab a hold of this FREE Activity Sheet to help with planning some fun SPOOKY activities…. Links activity ideas to the areas of learning and development! Click HERE to Download your copy for FREE! and find many more FREE childcare resources on the FREE RESOURCES page!

With the introduction of the new funded hours schemes and the various methods available for paying for childcare, it is essential that you make clear to parents the terms and costs involved and what help might be available to them. We have now added a Fees Policy and a Funded Hours Policy to our Policies […]