How to support EPA’s through charities
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 […]
Employing Apprentices as an End-Point Assessment Organisation
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 […]
How SSES became Ofqual approved
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 […]
Welcome to 2021
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 […]
What a Year
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 […]
Education Skills Funding Agency Stage 1 Acceptance
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 […]
How to Help Set New Year’s Goals for Children
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!? […]
The Nursery World Show 2020 Attendance Announcement!
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 […]
Italian Lemon Drop Christmas Cookies!
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 […]
Introduction to Gateway!
What is Gateway and when does it begin? Great question! Gateway is one of the most essential stages in the apprenticeship process and lies directly between the on-programme stage and the End-Point Assessment stage. This is the point in which an Employer decides an apprentice is competent enough in their skills to do the job […]