early years nerd, childminder @ftlchildminding (he/him) ADHD
Leeds
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I am going to be a childminder, hopefully this fall. I am aiming to make a place for children (and their families) whose "behaviour" is too often talked about with families at pick up time.
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Are you interested in becoming a Speech Bubbles drama practitioner? If so, please email [email protected] for an application pack. We are particularly interested in hearing from people with global majority background and with lived experiences of communication needs.
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Today's successful strike action at Orchard Day Nursery led to the closure of the setting to all parents and children with almost 100% of the workforce withdrawing their labour
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Thanks to all the parents and children of Orchard Day Nursery who took the time to express their support and solidarity to our members
A special thanks goes out to those who took the time to visit the picket line and the many who brought biscuits, drinks, and sweets ❤️
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Members at Orchard Day Nursery are gearing up for a further 2 days of action next week
Join them on the planned picket lines
Tuesday 21st March from 7am
Thursday 23rd March from 7am
#solidarity
@unisontheunion @NorthWestUNISON @The_TUC @TUCNorthWest @LivEchonews @BBCNWT
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I have to be honest and say the past 2 years spent campaigning to stop these ratio changes and for the government to announce in January they had cancelled the plans and now for them to be just announced as if it was something brilliant the government have come up with to cure the cost of living crisis when actually it puts children at significant risk with less eyes per child during vital time such as feeding, playing and throughout their development.
The government sadly or run a mile of any accountability when something goes wrong in the future involving safeguarding and a child in the early years sector. I hope and Pray that not a single setting besides to actually lower their ratios going forward because the accountability lays fully at your own doors.
I am so sorry to everyone that our campaign has just been totally ignored by the government.
They have failed to release any of the consultation documentation from last year ear because I'm pretty sure it only shows that the sector does not want these changes and will not take up these changes put the government have just gone ahead with it anyway.
Sorry 💙
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the amazing @mildredboveda has a doctoral student who is expanding this study to the UK. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
Please share with your networks: Are you a parent/caregiver of a child with autism between the ages of 2-5? Is more than one language spoken at your home? pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/…
Over the years I've seen some great writing from autistic and other neurodivergent people writing about their play as children. Can anyone link to any of these? Has anyone made a collection of these somewhere? They are important.
Just wrote my first 2 year old check report as a childminder. It felt great not using a template that grades someone's young child against a single (racist, ableist) standard of measurement.
Coming back because I could use some help finding any neurodiversity affirming paediatric occupational/physical/speech and language therapists in or near Leeds? Hopefully ones who work with younger children.
@eyfs4m @WFarahslt @DivergentSLT
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A thread about the Policy Exchange's report into the Trojan Horse Affair.
(Please RT and Like: especially those who didn't make the Policy Exchange's McCarthy-esque list of tweeters who praised the podcast series.)
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Ofsted, still perpetuating standard language ideology in November 2022. Report from an Early Years setting: "Staff model correct language... and they expect the children to use that language. As a result, children are confident and articulate in talking to each other and adults".
ALT Extract from Ofsted inspection report (November 2022): "Staff encourage all pupils to speak in full sentences. If pupils ask for something using one word only, teachers put this word into a full sentence using standard English. They encourage the pupil to repeat the full sentence. This is improving pupils’ spoken language."
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Among the other findings that interested me was the fact that “word of mouth” remains the dominant determinant in picking schools, higher even than Ofsted and much, much higher than Sat scores, which barely register 9/
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Our cat Steven has been truly going above and beyond with a variety of new humans coming into our house. He is like a childminding cheat code!
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We really need to think about the messages that we are giving our children about colours. #RepresentationMatters #TinyVoiceTalks #TinyVoicesTalk
tinyvoicetalks.com/post/it-s…
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These are the children whose temporary school was Israel destroyed today, again, after it demolished their school two weeks ago.
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The Israeli military is confiscating tents which were used as a temporary school for the children of Khirbet a-Safai al-Foqa in Masafer Yatta, after it demolished their school about two weeks ago.
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All across the UK the Christmas mail is piling up. Our members want to end the strike action but Royal Mail want to smash their jobs and refuse to engage with us.
RT if you demand that Royal Mail return to negotiations and reach a settlement to save Christmas.
#StandByYourPost
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If you are a parent/carer/educator of any echolalic children, it is very worth your while to learn more about gestalt language processing!
youtu.be/_DznntscgT8