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Positive Steps to Prevent Children Interrupting your Call
Whether you are on the phone or busy with important work it can be highly frustrating when you have children interrupting you. Children are so focused on their own needs they don’t realise you have needs too. Many children can occupy themselves for 10 to 30 minutes and it is reasonable to expect a young…
Easy Lockdown Lunch Ideas
Coming into 2021, many of us had the best intentions of making more exciting and nutritious lunches. However, it can be difficult to find quick and easy recipes to make in your lunch break, particularly if you’re juggling working from home or homeschooling, or both in some cases! While we can’t help you with your…
Sharing in the Early Years
Parents with two or more children often face difficulties with their children sharing on a daily basis. Struggles with sharing and turn taking in the early years is inevitable; children are beginning to learn about ownership and can become possessive about their things. Problems can also occur when other children visit your home or when…
Early Start Christmas Shut Down
Early Start Group will be closed for the holiday period from Wednesday 23rd December at 5pm until Monday 4th January. Everybody at Early Start Group would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. We will see you in the new year. Stay safe. Early Start Group
Catering for Vegetarian Children in your Early Years Setting
Here in the UK, we have fantastic evidence based advice and resources to support us to eat well and meet our nutritional requirements. This comes in the form of Public Health England’s (PHE) Eatwell Guide, which aims to help us to make healthy choices when shopping, preparing meals or eating out. To achieve a good…
Creative Christmas Activities
With Christmas just around the corner what better way to get into the spirit than doing some fun creative christmas activities with your little ones? Here are just a few ideas from the Parenting Team! Bauble painting Brighten up your baubles by adding a splash of paint! Acrylic paint works best with a fine paint…
Safety at Mealtimes for Infants and Toddlers – Gagging v’s Choking
“I’m worried my baby might choke if their food isn’t smooth” As parents, you may be nervous about introducing solid foods and worried about your little one gagging or choking. We want to support you to feel more confident at mealtimes and provide your with simple steps that you can follow to manage gagging and…
Nutrition Advent Calendar
Christmas is one of the most wonderful times of the year! There’s lots of festive fun to be had in creating a range of recipes, that can be made by even the smallest of hands. This year we’re bringing together some of our favourite Christmas themed recipes, as part of our Nutrition Advent Calendar. For…
Menu Planning FAQ’s and Common Pitfalls
In this month’s blog, we answer some of the common questions around menu planning in your early years setting. We also take a look at some of the common pitfalls that we see when we review menus. This will support you when planning nutritious and exciting food for the little ones in your setting! Are…
Diwali Activity Ideas
Celebrate the festival of light with your children by getting them involved with these fun Diwali activity ideas! Salt Dough Diva Lamps Candles and diva lamps feature greatly in the Diwali festival. You can make candle holder using dough. Follow link for easy play dough recipe. Paper Lanterns Using A4 paper, cut off a strip…