De-mystifying the EYFS

Session 2

Promoting children’s well being through good

practices

Pippa Williams Grace Opon

Accept Differences

Everyone Participates

Respect Diversity

Mobile Phones Off and not used

Constructive Criticism

Willingness to Make Mistakes

Confidentiality

Punctuality

Self-care

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Homework -

1. Have you registered with PACEY for the HBCA course, if so please give us your reference number?

2. Have you completed a Risk Assessment proposed areas/activities you intend to use?

3. Have you written a missing child policy? (volunteers share please)

4. Have you Completed Questions ….Preparing for your Registration Visit form 14,15,16,17,18,20,22,36,37 ? (volunteers share please)

5. Complete a Fire Evacuation Procedure?(volunteers share please)

6. Share your messy play idea for a 2 yr old.

Feedback from last session 3,2,1

3 things you learnt from last weeks session

2 things that you will use in your childminding business

1 thing that you need to know more about.

Reminder ---WHILST COMPLETING THE TRAINING YOU WILL NEED TO…https://www.gov.uk/register-childminder-childcare-provider/how-to-apply

Apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check through the Ofsted portal.

•Join the DBS update service and agree to Ofsted checking your DBS certificate at least every 6 months. If you haven’t joined the service 19 days after getting your first certificate, you must get a new one.

•Fill in a health declaration booklet.

Feedback from useful sites

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome-SIDS-What can you do to help prevent SIDS? http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Sudden-infant-death-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx

• Fatally flawed-Do you need socket covers? http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/html/fact_sheets.html

• Traffic Club http://www.childrenstrafficclub.com/about • http://www.capt.org.uk/who-we-are

Aims for this session

To understand what is meant by providing an environment that promotes good Health & Hygienic practices including nutrition.

The Eat Better, Start Better programmeOur Eat Better, Start Better programme helps young children to eat well

http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/pre-school/resources/guidelines

How can you ensure your practice and home is a healthy place for children?Word storm

How can you ensure your practice and home is a healthy place for children?

Food Hygiene

Infection Control: notifiable diseases,

separate towels/sheets

Providing an hygienic environment that enables

children to explore and play

freely.

Keeping children safe around animals

Healthy choices of food

Dealing with accident and

emergencies

Fresh air

First Aid

Hand washing

Daily Outdoor Playthat encourages

children to explore freely

How can you ensure your practice and home is a healthy place for children

Natural Light

Access to fresh drinking water

Organisation of space: access to hand washing, nappy changing and toileting

SmokingResources: Books, games, songs, rhymes and activities which promote healthy eating, personal care, doctors, dentists, hospitals etc.

Update Skills and knowledge through

training and workshops

Immunisations

What happens if a child has not been immunised?

The NHS vaccination schedule

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/pages/vaccination-schedule-age-checklist.aspx

Group Exercise – Discuss in your groups1.You are caring for a child who develops a high temperature

Q. What do you do next?

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/feverchildren/Pages/Introduction.aspx

2. A parent arrives with an epipen and asks you to give the child an injection if he starts to have an allergic reaction.

Q. What do you do next?

3. A child sustains has an accident (they have fallen over) at park. Two days later you find out from parent that the child was taken to the hospital as they were very complaining about their injury, you find out they have broken their arm and they stayed in hospital for 2 days.

Q. What do you do next?

Group Exercise – Discuss in your groups4. Someone in your setting smokes.

Q Who would you manage this, what would you include in your policy about smoking?

5. An 18mth old nappy needs changing both when indoors and outdoors

Q What is in your procedure?

6. A 18mth and 2 yr old have a sleep at the same time whilst your 3 yr old is awake and playing

Q How do you manage this? What sleeping arrangements will you provided? Think about safe facilities for sleeping.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/reducing-risk-cot-death.aspx

Group Exercise

7. A parent brings jarred baby food for their baby

Q. How would you approach this?

8. You are in the park with your children and one of them falls off a swing banging their head on the ground

Q. What do you do next?

Q. What information will you need to give to the ambulance crew?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CStF9nB1_8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybv7tElJAHs

Effective outdoor provision requires an ethos and vision, underpinned by

a strong rational- ---that toddlers must have access to outdoor environment for plenty of

time every day, every day of the year. How can you plan for this in your setting, what the issues you

may face?

How can you ensure you provide opportunities for young children to explore their natural world?

Dirt and germs as a health concern is a difficult issue which has to be carefully considered and discussed with parents. How can you enable toddlers to explore in a safe enough way?

There are benefits from being able to walk bare feet. How do we balance our fear of bumps and bruises with developmental value for toddler exploration outdoors.?

How could you overcome the barriers to enable young children to explore outdoors?

Sleeping Practices

Group Exercise – Discuss in your groups

Parent of a 8 month requests that their child has two sleeps at specific times, she mentions that he will cry himself to sleep, as this is usual for him.

Q How do you manage this? What sleeping arrangements will you provide?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/babies-left-to-cry-can-suffer-brain-damage-warns-parenting-guru-1950702.html

Coping with Crying DVD

Sleeping Practices

Good Sleep Practices- comfort objects, familiar bedding, lighting, noise, physical comfort—cuddles, rocking and patting, where?

Sleep positions- positional asphyxia can occur due to the prominence of the occiput (back of the head), as well as the overall lack of neck muscle strength, which forces the head to slouch forward pushing the chin down against the chest (Healthy Childcare IOWA 2008)

https://www.idph.state.ia.us/hcci/common/pdf/sleep_positioning.pdf Transferring sleeping children.

Bedding- cross infection (FCCERS)

Sleep routines being personalised– Parent partnership

Activities for children who are not sleeping

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/3489638/Babies-who-face-away-from-mothers-in-buggies-could-be-left-emotionally-impoverished

Group Exercise

Parent of 18 month old asks that you start to toilet train their child, placing him on the potty every time he has a drink. You don’t feel the child is ready.

How will you manage this?

Scenario

How would you deal with this?

Toilet training

When?

What does the EYFS say?

Development matters statement

Physical Development: Health and Self Care:

16-26mths- “clearly communicates wet or soiled nappy and pants”

“shows some awareness of bladder and bowel urges”

“shows awareness of what a potty or toilet is used for”

http://www.eric.org.uk/InformationZone/Leafletsandresources

Food/Drink

Mealtimes provide good opportunities for young children to……….

Mealtimes should;

Be individualised routines for each child according to parent wishes,

Allow children to eat at own pace, never rushed

Be a calm environment

Be a social occasion,

promote independence,

Give children choices, likes, dislikes,

link to settling in – invite parents to visit during meal times

Plan two days menu for the following scenarios

For a 8 mths old who is weaning

A two year old with a dairy allergy

A 7 yr old and 5 yr old after school

A 4 yr old who eats organic foods only and a 3 yr old who does not.

http://cft-staging-cdn.core-clients.co.uk.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/2015/06/CFT_Early_Years_Guide_Interactive_Sept-12.pdf

Baby-led weaning

Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater. It shows parents why baby-led weaning makes sense and gives them the confidence to trust their baby's natural skills and instincts.

With practical tips for getting started and the low-down on what to expect, Baby-led Weaning explodes the myth that babies need to be spoon-fed and shows why self-feeding from the start is the healthiest way for your child to develop. Your baby is allowed to decide how much he wants to eat, how to eat it and to experiment with everything at his own pace.

Baby-led weaning is a common-sense, safe, easy and enjoyable approach to feeding your baby. No more purées and weaning spoons, and no more mealtime battles. Simply let your baby feed himself healthy family food.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4QbO7RTOrM

GROUP ACTIVITY

What experiences and activities can you provide that encourage children to know about and choose healthy foods?

How could you provide opportunities to develop children’s awareness of different cultures and customs around food.

The provider must have a procedure, discussed with parents for responding to

children who are ill or infectious, take necessary

steps to prevent the spread of infection, and take

appropriate action if children are ill

Page 21 3.42 Medicines

Providers must have a policy for administering medicines. Medicines must not usually be

administered unless they have been prescribed for

a child be a doctor, dentist nurse.

Page22 3.45 Food and Drink

SWR –Health Page 21- 23

Before a child is admitted the provider must obtain information about special dietary requirements, preferences and food allergies and any special

health requirements

Where children are provided with meal, snack and drinks, they must be healthy, balanced

and nutritious. Fresh drinking water must be

available and accessible at all times.

Medicines must only be administered to a child where written permission for that particular medicine

has been obtained for the child’s

parent/carer

Safer food, better business for childminders

The Food Standards Agency has produced a 'Safer food, better business' (SFBB) pack especially for childminders. The pack gives simple, straightforward advice on food safety, including information on feeding babies and children, cooking, cleaning, chilling and looking after a child with a food allergy. It is designed to help childminders: make safer food protect the health of the children they look after comply with food hygiene regulationsWho is this pack for? You can download the full pack in pdf format (2.5MB), or download individual parts of the pack, set out section by section below.http://www.food.gov.uk/business-industry/caterers/sfbb/sfbbchildminders/#.U472C51wbct

TO BOOK ON FOOD HYGIENE COURSE AS SOON AS YOU

ARE REGISTERED AS A CHILDMINDER

Ofsted inform Hackney Environmental Health of all

registered childmindersTherefore childminders can be inspected by EH at any time to ensure they are meeting Food

Regulations!!!!

FOOD SAFETY

Homework Write your own Policy and Procedure for Health and Hygiene Practices—i.e

sick child policy, accidents and incidents, medication, food and drink policy, smoking.

Complete Question of the Preparing for your Registration Visit form 3, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27, 37

Useful sites

Childrens Food Trust

The Eat Better, Start Better programmeOur Eat Better, Start Better programme helps young children to eat well

http://www.childrensfoodtrust.org.uk/pre-school/resources/guidelines

Safer food, better business for childminders

http://www.food.gov.uk/business-industry/caterers/sfbb/sfbbchildminders/

Health Protection Agency (HPA) - http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/SchoolsGuidanceOnInfectionControl/

Childminding website - http://trustnet.learningtrust.co.uk/childminders/pages/doc.aspx?NAME=EYFS%20Welfare%20Requirements