Knutsford Childminding

Outstanding Ofsted Registered Childminder

Email ~ knutsfordchildminding@hotmail.co.uk

Blog ~ http://knutsfordchildminding.blogspot.com

PLEASE REMEMBER... these are e-books, they come to you via the wonders of email technology... I do not offer a printing service!

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Book no	Book name	Description	Price Â£
01	Multicultural Activities for pre-school children ~ planning	At least 2 fully planned activities for each calendar month (updated for 2009), following the EYFS 6 areas of learning and development and lots of general multicultural and global activity ideas. This is a massive resource! It is posted out on a CD as it is too big to email.	9.99 including Â£1 for P & P
02	Childminders Daily Diary	This is a very popular e-book which contains all the daily, weekly and monthly forms you will need to make sure you meet all statutory and good practice requirements for the EYFS. It includes planning and observation sheets relating to the EYFS, self-evaluations relating to the Every Child Matters agenda and lots of other forms to make your life easier - I love making forms.	4.99
03	Religions of the world	Perhaps for slightly older children, all your religion questions answered, with explanations about each major religion. A great way to provide evidence to Ofsted that you are promoting an inclusive setting.	4.99
04	Behaviour Management	This e-book is full of hints and tips on how to positively manage various behaviours, positive behaviour management techniques, suggestions for how to word your behaviour management policy and ideas on how to tackle bullying.	4.99
05	Risk assessments for the EYFS	This is one of my best sellers. It supports you as you write your risk assessments covering your home, garden and outings. It contains a range of sample forms and good practice advice.	6.99
06	Outside Play ~ planning	The EYFS has made every day an outside play day! This e-book contains ideas for how to plan, develop, resource and make the most your outside area (large or small), including ideas for games to play and lots of fun things to do. It includes safety and risk assessment advice.	4.99
07	Music and Rhymes ~ planning	This e-book contains the words to lots of popular songs and rhymes, making instruments, lots of planned activities relating to songs and rhymes and much more. The planning also links well for use with 'Letters and Sounds'. This is probably my favourite e-book as I refer to it every week when I am planning activities and it always provides me with fresh ideas for making our daily song time sessions fun!	3.99
08	December Celebrations ~ planning	Did you know there are 13 multicultural festivals in December? I have included planning for each, all fully linked to 6 areas of learning and development of the EYFS.	3.99
09	Seasons ~ planning	The planning in this e-book covers spring, summer, autumn and winter and is fully linked to the EYFS areas of learning and development. It also includes my multicultural planning calendar. There are lots of ideas for activities to support many of the global festivals and celebrations through the year - except December as that is covered in e book 8 December Celebrations ~ Planning.	5.99
10	People Who Help Us ~ planning	This is a popular theme for young children and usually child-initiated. This e-book contains planning linked to the EYFS areas of learning and development plus ideas for games and activities for lots of different occupations. It is multicultural and has been written with an awareness of anti-discriminatory practice.	3.99
12	Children's favourite books ~ planning	I wrote this e-book to help celebrate the National Year of Reading and I have included planning EYFS linked planning for at least 2 favourite books for each month of the year. The books I have chosen to plan have been written by popular contemporary authors, with the odd oldie thrown in because it's a favourite. If you would like a list of the books covered before you order, please email me.	3.99
14	EYFS Observations	This e-book contains all the information you need to begin observing and assessing children in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) requirements. The e-book includes samples of how to actually do observations and lots of ideas for how to set out your observations so parents and children can benefit from the information. There is a big section on how to celebrate each child's learning journey with the children and their parents and lots more!	4.99
15	EYFS Planning	This is my interpretation of how to plan for each child's individual learning journey using the EYFS as a guide. This e-book also looks closely at each of the Early Years Foundation Stage Principles and links these to good practice. It features a fully updated 2009 planning calendar	4.99
16	EYFS - Meeting the Standards	This e-book takes a close look at each part of the EYFS, starting with a walk through of the pack and answers for many frequently asked questions. It then follows with ideas for how to provide evidence of meeting each of the Welfare standards, through policies, procedures, information in your setting etc. I have then examined each of the Principles of the EYFS in detail and given lots of ideas for how you can support each child's learning and development using the Principles and ways to prove to Ofsted that you are meeting (and exceeding) them. This is a big book (225 pages long) and it has taken me a long time to write. I have looked at every aspect of the EYFS and put together a document which I hope will make EYFS sound do-able. FREE ... you get 18 EYFS Guides to Inspections and the SEF (Self Evaluation Form) included when you buy this e-book.	9.99
17	EYFS - Play and activities for under 3s	Only small, but very popular, this is a planning e-book, 50+ pages long. It is packed full of ideas for keeping under 3s entertained and educated while following the guidelines of the EYFS. This e-book starts with a look at how the EYFS links to Birth to 3 Matters, then examines each of the 6 areas of the EYFS in detail, with suggestions for how to resource and plan activities, following each child's individual interests.	2.99
18	EYFS Guides to Inspections and the SEF (Self Evaluation Form)	Easily my best seller! You are buying over 100 pages of close typed, carefully researched information, including a walk-through of how to complete your SEF! This e-book is bundled with 16, so please do not buy it twice!	3.99
19	Top 10 Themes ~ Planning	I have included planning, which closely follows the EYFS, for the following popular themes in this e-book... Introduction including planning notes and references; 1 Healthy eating; 2 Shopping; 3 All about me; 4 Gardening; 5 Pets; 6 On the pond; 7 Minibeasts; 8 Buildings; 9 Dinosaurs; 10 Clothes. These are all tried and tested themes (using my mindees as guinea pigs) ... I hope they help you to plan to each child's individual interests as required by the EYFS.	5.99
20	Senses ~ Planning	You will find lots and lots of ideas for planning activities using all 5 senses... sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell. I have added a section to each which encourages use of the outside area, as required by the EYFS.	3.99
21	Healthy eating and the EYFS	There is a lot of information available about feeding children healthy diets but most of it seems to be aimed at school age children. The nutritional needs of younger children are different and this e-book has been written specially for the 0 to 5 year olds. It includes everything you need to know about nutrition, tailored to meet the needs of babies, toddlers and young children. I have also included a section about HACCP and kitchen safety to help you comply with current legislation.	3.99
22	2009 Celebrations Calendar	This is a 60+ page resource. It contains details of multicultural and diverse celebrations and festivals for every month of 2009 and gives suggestions for your planning for each one. Please do not buy with e-book 1 Multicultural Activities or e-book 9 Seasons Planning as these include the calendar. Thank you!	2.99
23	Continuous Provision and the EYFS	This e-book comes in 2 parts. The first part introduces continuous provision and talks about how to write continuous provision plans; the second part contains 17 completed continuous provision plans in a number of different formats, so you can choose and use your favourite.	4.99
24	Safety check lists	Safety must be our priority... but there are so many things to consider, it sometimes seems overwhelming. This little e-book is in a question / audit format. It helps you to think about all the different things you need to consider when you are writing your risk assessments and the pages will be useful to put in your risk assessments folder for easy reference. I have tried to look at the most common safety concerns faced by childminders... and added information about enabling children to manage their own risk.	2.99
25	Paperwork for the EYFS	Have you ever wondered exactly what paperwork you need so you can meet the statutory, guidance and good practice requirements of the EYFS? Well this e-book will tell you! It looks at each section of the Every Child Matters agenda in turn and talks about paperwork requirements.	3.99
26	Every child matters	The Every Child Matters agenda covers 5 areas... 1 A healthy child 2 A safe child 3 Helping children to enjoy and achieve 4 Making a positive contribution 5 Achieving economic well being I have looked at each one in turn and talked about how to show evidence that you, as a childminder, are giving each child in your care the best start in life. Each chapter contains ideas about writing policies, suggestions for good practice so you get the best possible Ofsted grading, ideas for what to put in your portfolio and much, much more. You will also find this e-book useful for completing the ECM SEF questions.	4.99
27	The 6 areas of learning and development	This e-book takes close look at each of the 6 areas of learning and development -plus it includes an introductory chapter which talks about how to use the 6 areas effectively and how they fit together with the EYFS as a whole. Each chapter includes sections on ... what the EYFS says about the area of learning and development, how you can effectively resource, observe and plan for each area, how you can prove what you do to meet each of the 6 areas, a continuous provision plan for each area, how to show you meet the Early Learning Goals and much more.	5.99

Learning Journeys for the EYFS

It is a statutory requirement of the EYFS that learning and development must be tracked through systematic observational assessment. This e-book is in 2 chapters - the first talks you through all the different pages you might like to include in a child's learning journey, from involving parents to writing individual planning and much more in between.

The second chapter is full of sample paperwork that you might like to use. The forms are ones I use every day so I know they work in practice.

3.99

Policies and Procedures

This is an information e-book about the Policies and Procedures you might find it useful to write to comply with the Statutory and Guidance requirements of the EYFS and the Childcare Register.
Each policy and procedure is linked to the Every Child Matters agenda and the Statutory Requirements of the EYFS.

This e-book does not write your policies and procedures for you... instead it gives you ideas of what you might want to include in each, plus legal wording from the EYFS and Childcare Register where appropriate.

4.99

World Travellers

Turn your children into global adventurers following the planning ideas in this e-book. Travel from the plains of Africa to the valleys of Wales, stopping off at 15 other exciting global destinations on the way. Experience the multicultural delights of our world from the comfort of your playroom and garden... all you need to add are resources and a little imagination.

World Travellers is planned to help you meet the requirements of the EYFS.

3.99

Outside play all year long

My inspiration for writing this e-book came from a childminding friend who was groaning that she never knew what to do with the children outside in the cold weather. She said she wished there was a book she could buy to give her ideas for getting the children motivated to be outside when all they wanted to do was hug a radiator.

There are 4 sections to this e-book covering multicultural, group and individual planning and ideas to meet each of the 6 areas of learning and development.

3.99

Schemas planning

Find out why children repeat patterns of play... and how you can use the EYFS to plan for the next steps in their learning and development.

3.99

Wales and the CSSIW

Welsh Childminders have to comply with 21 Standards... I have looked at each in detail and, using plain English, given a range of ideas for improving your childminding practice that are easy to both implement and evidence for CSSIW at inspection time.

I have gone on to examine the Foundation Phase in detail and hope all Welsh Childminders will find the information helps them to easily implement and use the good practice the Foundation Phase contains in their work with children.

This e-book has been fully proof read by 2 established Welsh childminders.

7.99

The 6 areas of learning and development made simple(r)

I have had complaints! LOL! E-book 27 is good and really informativeï¿½ but it apparently contains too much information! So, here is my new e-book - The 6 areas of learning and development made simple(r)!

It is a potted information style e-book which looks at each of the 28 aspects of the 6 areas of learning and development. It links them to the other 15 Principles of the EYFS and talks about how to plan and resource each of them... and gives ideas of how to involve parents in your planning.

3.99

Childminding portfolios and ECM

If you set out your childminding portfolio to meet the 5 Every Child Matters outcomes, then you will find this e-book really useful.

I have re-written my entire portfolio as a series of questions and answers and linked it in with the SEF. I have used the 5 outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda to check my compliance with the requirements of the EYFS and to audit what I do and how I can do better.

My portfolio is now well organised and I know exactly what I need to do next! I hope this e-book will do the same for you!

4.99

Scotland and the Care Commission

This is a 4 chapter, full of information e-book especially written for Scottish childminders.
The 4 chapters are...
Chapter 1 - Care Standards 1 - 3 and lots of other information about Childminding in Scotland;
Chapter 2 - Care Standards 4 - 14;
Chapter 3 - All about the CC inspection and SAF;
Chapter 4 - Early Scottish Education.
It is a huge resource, written in detail like my English e-books...
This e-book has been fully proof read by a Scottish childminder who was graded 6 at her last inspection.

7.99

HACCP

You need to show that you are complying with latest food hygiene and safety laws as relevant to childminders... this e-book will help you to do that! It works closely with the new Government document - ‘Safer Food Better Business for Childminders’.

4.99

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New... mini e-books

I have written these e-books after being asked the same questions over and over again on www.childmindingforum.co.uk where I am a moderator.

If childmindingforum members are asking the questions, then there must be a demand for the information... so here it is!

Each e-book will be between 10 and 20 pages long and will do just what it says in the title... it will give information on the subject... nothing more and nothing less!

Each Mini e-book costs Â£1.45.

I will add more to my mini-e-book library as time allows.

I hope you find them useful!

Book no	Mini e-book name	Description	Price (British pounds)
M1	Outings Risk Assessments	All about outings, including how to meet the EYFS statutory and guidance requirements, an outing risk assessment form and ideas for completing the form. Note - if you have bought e-book 5, Risk assessments, you do not need this mini e-book as well!	1.45
M2	Healthy packed lunches	All about packed lunches, including ideas for healthy nutritious contents and lunches for multicultural celebrations through the year.	1.45
M3	Medication for EYFS	All about meeting the requirements of the EYFS while ensuring children in your care stay healthy and safe by receiving the medication they require.	1.45
M4	Complaints	All about how to show you are meeting the requirements of the EYFS and the Childcare Register when you receive a complaint about your childminding provision which falls within the remit of the EYFS Statutory Framework or Guidance.	1.45
M5	Personalised learning	The EYFS says every child is unique and we must value and respect the diversity of individuals. If we are to help each child to learn and develop to their fullest potential, we must consider tailoring the learning environment to suit their individual needs. This mini e-book helps you to do just that.	1.45
M6	Treasure Baskets and Heuristic Play	A detailed explanation of each of these ways of supporting babies and small children to play and explore the world around them; this e-book contains ideas for putting baskets together and when and how to use them.	1.45
M7	Childrenï¿½s starting points	The EYFS says we must gather as much information from parents as possible, so that we can care for their child as effectively as possible from their first day with us. I have put together paperwork to make this information gathering exercise as simple as possible. I hope you find it useful.	1.45
M8	Transitions	This e-book considers how best to prepare children for moving on... to school or other settings, including ideas for sharing information about the child's learning journey which the new setting will find useful. It also looks at how to effectively welcome new children to your setting.	1.45
M9	School aged children	This often forgotten age group are discussed in detail. I have also included a complete run-down of the similarities and differences between the Statutory Framework of the EYFS and the Childcare Register.	1.45
M10	Working with parents	Lots of information about how to fulfil the requirements of Principle 2.2 'Parents as Partners'. This e-book contains ideas for how to complete a 'Welcome Booklet' for new parents, suggestions for contents of newsletters and many, many more subjects related to how we can work closely with parents for the benefit of each child.	1.45
M11	Nappy changing, hand washing and toileting	Our responsibilities to parents and children are huge. We must support parents, protect children and work within the requirements of the EYFS. I have talked about routines, health and safety and much more.	1.45
M12	Teaching safety	Supporting children to be safe is a huge area and I have looked at some of the ways you can teach safety to children. This includes rail track, road, internet, animal and fire safety; teaching about personal safety such as stranger danger and people who help us and a section thinking about how to support children to risk assess their own play.	1.45
M13	Allergies	Hopefully this mini e-book covers nearly everything you ever wanted to know about allergies, anaphylaxis, Epipens etc. It also includes information on how to support the child and work with parents. There are sample forms etc...	1.45
M14	Caring for our environment	A mini planning e-book, which thinks about how you can plan a greener setting and involve parents and children to support your venture.	1.45

M15

Inclusion - disability

Children are exposed to disability but might not see it as different or unusual, unless adults who influence their lives point it out or treat is as special.

Our role is to enable children to play and learn about disability in a way that ensures they understand about difference without learning prejudice.

1.45

M16

Inclusion - equality of opportunity

All children must be able to access all your resources and equipment (safety first of course)... all your planned activities must ensure all children have opportunities to learn and play.

This e-book talks about how to support children and how to deal with any challenges you might face.

1.45

M17

Inclusion - multiculturalism

We are living in an increasingly multicultural world where travel to and from other counties is offering opportunities for people to move around like never before. This is supported by the EYFS which tells us that we must be multicultural and diverse in everything we do. This mini e-book will help you.

1.45

M18

Working with others

The EYFS says that we must work with other settings, other professionals and people in the local area to enhance childrenï¿½s learning experiences and help them progress towards the 5 outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda.

This little e-book will support you with ideas for making this work. It contains good practice advice from other childminders and suggestions for things to try when the going gets tough and other settings / professionals just donï¿½t want to play the game.

1.45

M19

Special diets

It is becoming obvious that children are suffering from more intolerances and allergies than ever before... and there are many conditions that might affect children's dietary requirements. When parents leave their child with a childminder, they need to be reassured that we are able to look after them appropriately.

While we are not experts and we cannot advise parents on what to give their children to eat, we need to be aware of various dietary requirements so that we are in a position to offer support and help.

This mini e-book contains information about a range of dietary requirements from allergies to veganism.

1.45

M20

Improving outcomes

There are 16 Principles of the EYFS and each is equally important. Perhaps the one that childminders focus on most often relates to the 6 areas of learning and development. However, it is vital that the other 15 Principles are securely in place before minding starts ï¿½ without considering the uniqueness of every child and getting relationships and environments right, we cannot effectively do our jobs.

I have worked through each of the 16 Principles in this e-book and given ideas for self reflection... first blow your own trumpet (because nobody else will do it for you) by saying all the things you are already doing; then go on to think about an area of improvement.

1.45

M21

Accidents, First Aid and Emergencies

Would you know what to do if a child had a serious accident? Are you clear about the legal requirements if you administer First Aid? Is your emergency paperwork fully completed and in a format that is easy to take on outings?

This mini e-book has the answers to all these questions and many more, in an easy to access format including sample forms to help you record all the required information.

1.45

M22

Group planning made simple

I look after 9 part time children every week and I do not have time to spend writing up planning that is not used. I also have no intention of getting bogged down with lots of duplication and piles of unwanted paperwork.

This mini e-book will hopefully inspire you to ditch any complicated systems you use and explore ways of recording your group planning so that any spare time you have can be spent playing, not writing.

1.45

M23

Individual planning made simple

To follow on from my very successful Group planning made simple mini e-book 22, here is the promised individual planning version. Group and individual planning are very different and need to be tackled separately if you are going to show Ofsted a clear progression in childrenâ€™s learning and development through the weeks and months they are in your care.

This mini e-book contains information about how to plan for the individual and ideas for how to put information about each child on paper.

1.45

M24

Observations made simple

This is the last in a series of 3 mini e-books which are aimed at making the EYFS requirement to observe, assess and plan do-able for all childminders, using the minimum paperwork.

I hope you find it useful.

1.45

Sarah Neville - Registered Childminder

New... mini e-books