We are pleased to announce the addition of two new courses to our training schedule
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 When booking onto safeguarding courses, please review the following information to ensure you attend the correct training:
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Group B – This training is for assistants, students, apprentices, and any staff who DO NOT have a Designated Safeguarding Lead role. This is a 6-hour course.
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Group C – This training is for Leaders, Deputies, Managers, Responsible Individuals, and any staff member who HAS a Designated Safeguarding Lead role, such as completing Duty To Report forms and attending Child Protection meetings. This is a 2-day course.
Please make sure to register for the appropriate course based on your role. If you have any questions, please contact Laura Cook, Early years Safeguarding Compliance Officer.
 🎉 Stay Connected with Caerphilly Early Years! 🌈
We’re excited to announce the launch of our brand-new Instagram page: @CaerphillyEarlyYears! This is your go-to spot for:
Important Updates: Be the first to know about key announcements.
Exciting News: Stay in the loop with upcoming events and special initiatives.
Fresh Content: Discover fun activities, tips, and resources to support your role and children's early development.
 For contracted Flying Start Settings, the term dates for January 2025 to Easter 2025 are as follows:
- Term starts Monday 6 January 2025
- Half term starts Monday 24 February 2025
- Half term ends Friday 28 February 2025
- Term ends Friday 11 April 2025
If you have any planned closure days where you are not operational (this includes school inset days if you are a setting based on a school site) or cannot offer children their full Flying Start entitlement on any day during the term, it is essential that you discuss the closure dates with your Childcare Officer and update the Early Years Hub on 01443 863232 or email earlyyearshub@caerphilly.gov.uk.
 We encourage all staff to make families they work with aware of the valuable resources offered by Cerebra, a national charity dedicated to helping children with brain conditions and their families. By listening to the needs of these families, Cerebra inspires the most helpful research and innovation.
Cerebra offer advice and support to children and their families in various ways to help families overcome challenges and discover a better life together with their child. This includes:
You can read more about how Cerebra has helped one mum in this article.
Please familiarise yourself with the resources available on their website to ensure families are aware of these incredible resources and support systems available to them.
Families who applied for Flying Start childcare by the 7 February will receive their decision email by 5pm on 10 March. The decision email will be sent to the email address they provided in their application.
If any of the families who are working with have applied, please remind them to check their emails including their spam and junk mail folders.
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Applications open on 12 February for children with a date of birth between 1 January 2022 – 31 March 2022. They are eligible from 28 April 2025 to 31 August 2026. Click here for details
Please encourage all eligible families you work with to apply, and take advantage of these funding opportunities.
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The application deadline for a place in a Nursery class in September is quickly approaching on the 21st of February 2025.
Please help to remind families who have children who will be aged 3 before 31 August 2025 to apply before the deadline. We don't want any child to miss out!
Application details are at www.caerphilly.gov.uk/schooladmissions. For help applying, parents can call the School Admissions Team on 01443 864870.
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 Speech, language and communication are important skills for children to develop. The Welsh Government Talk With Me website has helpful resources for parents/carers and practitioners to access. Not everyone will know about this website or the helpful resources, and we can help get the word out by sharing the Talk With Me posters. These could be handed out to parents/carers or put up in areas where they will be seen often, like the staff room or on the door where the children get picked up.
The posters all have the Talk With Me branding and this means you know you can trust that the advice will be helpful, up to date and can be shared far and wide.
You can find the posters here: Talk with me: toolkit | GOV.WALES
For more information on interacting with young children, visit https://gov.wales/talk-with-me.
We also have a section on our website dedicated to Speech Language and Communication: Support for children to learn to talk and communicate - Caerphilly Early Years.
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Why don’t you play some Welsh music in your setting for all to enjoy?
https://cyw.cymru/en/caru-canu/
Why don’t you discuss the traditional Welsh costume and compare it to what’s worn by children today?
Have a go at making traditional Welsh Cawl with the children using vegetables.
You could read also ‘The Enormous Turnip’ by Kaytie Daynes, or ‘Y Feipen Enfawr’ via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQJ35L5_XmA
Don’t forget the Welsh cakes; you could make yours out of playdough if easier?!
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