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The Power of Positive Words in Anti-Racism Education for Young Childre…
by Dr Lucretia Carter Berry
Dr Lucretia Carter Berry explores the transformative power of employing positive, affirming words when engaging in anti-racism education with young children.
Podcast: Exploring contemporary digital childhood and children’s play
Jules and Stephen chat with Dr Yinka Olusoga about children’s digital literacies, how children’s play is evolving, and how we can shift our mindset to recognise and participate in their digital and post-digital play.
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What does it mean to be antiracist? Education and racial literacy cons…
Education and racial literacy consultant, and former headteacher Orlene Badu explains that we need to focus on our own antiracist journey in order to be able to model how to challenging and disrupt racism to our children.
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Registers and attendance monitoring
Hi, We use paper registers and separately need to log non attendance. Has anyone got any suggestions on how to set it out with different children each day and attending at different times to make the process a lot less time consuming? many thanks -
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Registers - tracking attendance with a reports
Hi @Tweetinat and @CarolineD123, Just to let you know - we now also have an Attendance Report on Tapestry within our Management System! This tutorial will take you through it: Online Register - Attendance Report. 🙂 Best wishes, Alexandra -
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Nursery Management System - Attendance reports for children
Attendance reports for children are now available as part of Tapestry's Nursery Management System! Set a custom date range, filter by room, and easily view a child's: Number of days booked Number of days attended Attendance % Absence % Number of illness days Number of holidays 'Other' absences You can also export the data into CSV for your records. -
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Employment Allowance
Hi everyone Does anyone have some knowledge of the Employment Allowance via HMRC? We have lots of confusion surrounding this. Each year when we apply, we read through the current eligibility, which I find vague and confusing, particularly relating to the de minimus aid rules and which employers qualify. We have always thought we qualify particularly when the HMRC eligibility criteria states: De minimis state aid limits are likely to apply to your business if both of the following are true: * your business is located in Northern Ireland * your business makes or sells goods or wholesale electricity (neither of which apply to us) and also states: Check if you’ve received any de minimis state aid - if so, you should have been told in writing. (I don't believe we have ever had written advice that we have received de minimus aid.) Our recent NDNA newsletter email reported this: Purnima Tanuku OBE, CEO said: “The Government must recognise that by increasing the number of hours of funded childcare available to parents, they will disadvantage nurseries in England: they won’t be eligible to apply for the employer allowance because more than half of their income will be public funding.” So this makes it sound like the Early Years Entitlement we receive is de minimus aid? Before I spend half my life queueing to speak to someone at HMRC, who I do not have faith will be able to answer my question, I wondered if anyone here had any knowledge please? Thank you in advance. -
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Ofsted inspection tomorrow!
So I’m closing my nursery next Wednesday and opening new setting at new address in Jan 2025( already got registration certificate) I get a call today for Ofsted to say they inspectingbcurrent setting tomorrow even though closing next Wednesday!! Totally crazy! I have already packed up most of my equipment and moved some too!!- 2
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