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This week is all about books. On Monday 6th, we had National Read a Book Day. With the two early years standards, the Early Years Practitioner L2 and the Early Years Educator L3, apprentices are used to working with the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) framework. Within the prime areas there is ‘Communication and Language’ which leads onto ‘Literacy’. With…
Sunday 5th was International Day of Charity. I wanted to mention this as I think businesses and charities are in a position to work well together and improve life chances for wherever your passion lies – mental health, animals, care, historic buildings, health, or conservation, to name just a few. Have you heard of Amazon…
Good morning September! It’s been over 3 months since we were approved and were added to the Register of End-Point Assessment Organisations, but feels like only yesterday. I had a really good conversation with a gentleman from the ESFA the other day during a routine follow up call from giving SSES approval to deliver Early…
On 25th May 2020 SS Educational Services submitted their application to Ofqual to become an End Point Assessment Organisation (EPAO). On 25th May 2021 our application to Ofqual was successful. I couldn’t help but smile at both events taking place on exactly the same date a year apart, what are the odds in that happening? It hasn’t been…
We are now approaching the end of January, the month has flown past! What has gone even faster is a year since we attended the Nursery World Show 2020. This year the expo cannot be a physical event, but the team behind the show have created a virtual exhibition, with 2 days full of early…
As we come to the end of 2020 I think most people will be looking forward to 2021, here at SSES we certainly are! We have been quiet but working frantically behind the scenes. We had planned to start delivering EPAs in January, but this has been put back to April. The extra time has…
Quick little update here regarding our process of becoming an EPAO for the EYE Standard and the CYPF Standards! We have officially been accepted through Stage 1 of the Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)! I’m sure that anyone that has been through this process before knows how gradual and time-consuming something like this can…
Given that it’s the first month of the New Year (Happy New Year’s everyone!), and most people are writing up an abundance of “New Year’s Resolutions”, we thought we would touch on how to successfully incorporate New Year’s Goals into the lives of our littles ones – no it is not just for adults!? …
Hello Everyone! We hope all of you are crushing your New Year and getting everything back to normal after the holidays! We are so excited to announce our attendance to The Nursery World Show 2020 on February 7th-8th at The Business Design Centre in London, UK! If you will be attending this amazing convention, please don’t hesitate…
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Christmas cookies! ⛄ Fortunately, we have a pretty substantial excuse to bake as practitioners, educators and parents! Baking with children acquires a significant amount of benefits for our little ones; it improves bilateral coordination, introduces scientific concepts, boosts reading and social skills, encourages planning skills, exercises spatial awareness, initiates basic…