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National Year of Reading 2026
2026 is the year that the Department for Education (DfE) has designated as the National Year of Reading. All kinds of organisations are supporting this effort from one of the partners, the Book Trust to sponsors including HM Prison and Probation Service. (I know a slightly odd sponsor for a childminder to highlight, but hang…
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Skills. I’ve got them and so have you.
Today I’ve been working on the research for my podcast for childminders on the theme of valuing skills. It’s a strange subject to cover in a podcast for childminders one might say. It’s seems to be something that childminder’s don’t really think about much until some negative media attention happens and we all jump on…
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You can get through this!
September is such a funny time of year in the UK isn’t it? Education is so firmly routed around the academic year which stems from when many children were needed to help on farms with harvest. It seems bizarre to me that our academic year is still so focused around this when the majority of…
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Persona Dolls: Why was I so nervous?
Why has it taken me so long to introduce my doll to my setting? Writing is supposed to help us reflect, so maybe we will find out together about the roots of my apprehension.
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When a Childminder has time off sick
Having recently had my first full week off from work in almost two years due to ill health, I thought it would be worth a little write about
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Childminder of the Year experience
Being nominated for Childminder of the Year was a complete surprise to me. I didn’t know I had been nominated until I had been selected as a finalist so it was a real shock to the system. I found out that I was nominated by families of the children I care for, alongside some childminding…
