Tic Toc Nursery: weekday childcare in Clayhall, Ilford

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Thank You Thank you for contacting us 020 8551 2577 Tic Toc Nursery Ilford 208 Clayhall Avenue Ilford, Essex IG5 0LE Tic Toc Nursery is located in Clayhall, Ilford, Essex IG5, close to South Woodford, Gants Hill, Fulwell Cross, Barkingside, Fairlop, Grange Hill, Hainault, Woodford Green, Redbridge and Newbury Park. We are an independent, family […]

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Giving Your Child The Best Start in Life Tic Toc Nursery, Clayhall, Ilford Get Started Nursery Opening Times We are open 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except inset days & public holidays. Get Started Arrange a Tour Experience the nursery for yourself & ask us anything! Call 020 8551 2577 or book here. […]

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A Foundation for the Future Tic Toc Nursery, Clayhall, Ilford Get Started Our Childcare The highest quality weekday childcare for babies (3 months), toddlers & children aged up to 5. Nursery Opening Times We are open 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday to Friday, except inset days & public holidays. Arrange a Tour Experience the […]

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Tic Toc Nursery is active on social media. Why not follow our profiles and engage with us, particularly if you are a parent of a baby, or under-five child in or around Clayhall, Ilford or Essex. We’ll ensure that we keep profiles busy with news from the nursery/pre-school and useful information relating to early years learning and development. Examples include links to useful guides and ‘how to’ articles, fun activity ideas for under-fives and even occasional funny stuff! We’re on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Business and Instagram at time of writing, but may add more profiles in the future.

Tic Toc News & Information Blog

We’re also very active, of course, here on our blog. Here, we’ll tend to stick to larger, in-depth articles, covering ‘big’ topics, each of which will be well researched. These should be particularly useful to readers who have babies and young children. Childcare funding, children’s health, safeguarding, early years education and children’s activities are just a few category examples. So, please do come back regularly as we currently publish two high quality articles here every month.

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We’re also on Facebook. You can view and follow our Facebook profile here. We’ll ensure it keeps you up-to-date with all the goings-on at the nursery, links to all the topics we cover on the blog and a whole lot more. Our Facebook profile also gives you at-a-glance information about the nursery/pre-school and its services. There’s even a page where you can send in your review if your child has experienced this outstanding new childcare service in Clayhall, Ilford.

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Follow us on Twitter (we’re @tictocilford) and stay abreast of early years news, activities, information, opinions and anything we think might be useful to parents of babies, toddlers and under-five children. We’ll also be sure to include tweets — and retweets from others — including anything interesting to do with Clayhall, Ilford or nearby areas of Essex like Barkingside, Gants Hill, Redbridge and South Woodford.

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The Early Learning Goals for Every Child

The Early Learning Goals for Every Child

A set of important Early Learning Goals (“ELGs”) is prescribed for every child at nursery or pre-school in England.Did you know that there is a set of important Early Learning Goals (“ELGs”) prescribed for every child at nursery or pre-school in England? The goals are even enshrined in law under the Childcare Act of 2006. It’s all part of the Early Years Foundation Stage (‘EYFS’), which is the statutory framework governing the entire approach to early years provision in England. But what are the early learning goals? What is their purpose? Why do they exist? Today we’ll take a deep dive into the Early Learning Goals to answer all such questions and more. It’ll also highlight how early years providers like Tic Toc Nursery work, behind the scenes, to get the best outcome for every child under their care. Let’s take a look…

What is the Purpose of the Early Learning Goals?

In essence, the purpose of the Early Learning Goals is to ensure that every child reaches their full learning and development potential. The Early Learning Goals ensure that every child reaches their full learning and development potential.By achieving personal bests in every area, they will have the very best foundations set up for their ongoing future. It’s also a way to ensure that they are as “school-ready” as possible at the age of five, when they leave early years provision and transition to Year 1 at school. This will enable them to hit the ground running there — and accomplish a flying start. They will also take with them a natural enthusiasm to learn that they have gained during their early years. Studies show that children’s outcomes and life chances are significantly improved when a good approach to early years learning and development has been implemented. Indeed, that’s one of the many reasons why the UK’s Department of Education (‘DfE’) offers free childcare to eligible 2-year-olds and to all 3 and 4-year-old children living in England.

The ELGs “support teachers to make a holistic, best-fit judgement about a child’s development, and their readiness for year 1.” (DfE)

How are Early Learning Goals Assessed, and By Whom?

Every under-five child at officially-registered childcare settings in England is assessed against their Early Learning Goals on an ongoing basis. Firstly, this is done by the …

Why Every Child Should Go to Nursery

Why Every Child Should Go to Nursery / Pre-School

Today we look at the many ways in which good childcare services benefit babies, toddlers & preschoolers, both short & long term.Some first-time parents may be unaware of all the ways in which nurseries and pre-schools nurture and benefit little ones. Some may, perhaps, initially think of them simply as a crèche or playgroup where someone will look after their child, feed them, entertain them and keep them safe while parents/carers are at work. Nurseries and pre-schools do all of those things, of course. However, they’re much, much more than that and benefit little ones in a myriad of additional, often profound ways. Today we’ll take a look at just some of the many ways in which a good childcare service will benefit babies, toddlers and preschoolers in both the short and long term — beginning in the most crucial time in their early years learning and development.

Provision of a Good Early Years Education

As well as looking after little ones in their parents’ absence, good childcare settings will provide babies and children with a good early years education in a vast number of different areas. Examples include an introduction to reading, writing, phonics, arithmetic, knowledge of the world immediately around them, the planet, nature, different cultures, the arts, technology plus a huge array of additional topics. This is all incredibly important and will set them on a good path and one that is based on good educational foundations. It’ll also give them hunger for further learning as they grow and that will help them enormously when the time comes for them to transition to school.

Enhancing Children’s Communication & Language

Good childcare will provide babies and children with skills and a good early years education covering a vast number of different areas.Good childcare settings like nurseries and pre-schools will also help immensely with children’s communication and language skills. A good childcare provider will encourage little ones to listen, comprehend and engage with both their peers and the early years practitioners around them. By getting actively involved with conversations, they’ll enhance language skills, improve comprehension of topics being discussed, and be more able to communicate going forwards.

Improving Children’s Social Skills

Social skills will benefit greatly when under-fives attend a good nursery or pre-school. With enhanced language and communication skills (see above), children will naturally become more self-confident and able to feel they can speak up, take the initiative and engage confidently with both peers and adults. This naturally leads to the making of new friends and even a deepening of existing friendships. With all the different activities on offer at good childcare settings, children will have a natural propensity to play together and often build long-term friendships.

Part of improving social skills is also, of course, the learning of …

Your Child’s “Progress Check at 2” — Explained

Your Child's Progress Check at 2 — Explained

Children in England are subject to an official Progress Check once they reach the age of 2.Both Ofsted and the Department of Education (DfE) require that all nurseries, pre-schools and early years providers in England adhere to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learning and development framework. This prescribes the key areas of focus required for children’s education, learning and development, also providing guidelines and benchmarking for things like safeguarding, welfare and the continual assessment of every child under the age of 5. As part of the assessment element, a Progress Check comes into play for every child once they reach the age of 2.

The Progress Check at 2 — What’s it All About?

The progress check can occur any time from the age of 2 up to the point when children reach the age of 3. It’s a complete review of the child’s progress in key areas of their learning and development. It’s part and parcel of the EYFS’s policy of sharing information between the early years provider, parents and/or carers — and sometimes the child’s health visitor* — in order to support the child’s progress going forwards. The progress check happens jointly and a summary is provided to parents/carers in written form. This will help both the childcare provider to support the child when at nursery, pre-school or similar, and the parents/carers to support the child while they are at home.

The progress report must primarily identify:

  • Any strengths that the child has in relation to the 3 ‘prime’ areas of the EYFS The progress check identifies strengths and any concerns in relation to the 3 'prime' areas of the EYFS. (those areas being Communication and language, Physical development and lastly Personal, social and emotional development);
  • Any concerns about the child’s progress in any of those prime areas, i.e. where their progress has been less than expected. This may even include possible identification of one or more special educational needs or disabilities.

Practitioners may, at their discretion, also summarise strengths and any concerns they have in regard to areas outside the EYFS’s 3 ‘prime’ areas, for example in any of its 4 ‘specific’ areas.

Support Plans

The idea behind appraising the child’s overall progress at this formative age is, of course, to …