Buttercup Lane Childminders

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Well what a totally strange year 2020 is turning out to be.

We have finally managed to get our entire September School intake attending school.  The School starts dates were carefully spread over September and into October to help with minimising the spread of the Covid Pandemic.

We have introduced some safeguarding measures in place here to help minimise the risk of infection of Covid and other infectious diseases.

2020 has been an ever changing world and we have what seems like new legislations to follow week in week out as the world develops trying to control the spread.

At the forefront of our care is all our children’s health, as the county restrictions are getting tighter, childcare settings with schools at this moment in time are able to remain open as usual. We have  lots of communication methods and strategies in place for regular health updates for everyone that attends.

As we approach Winter we all have to remain focused on the end goal and hopefully over the next few months we are able to have some control over the pandemic and start to get back to some normality, whatever the new normality actually means will be the results of all our actions now and in the next few months.

Our regular seasonal activities have not really been affected and we are trying our hardest to maintain normality on our educational and physical activities, however our playgroup sessions remain off limits at present time although we fulfil the outcomes of the playgroups sessions in our setting and  other outdoors areas.

We created a little bit of normality whilst in the lockdown state, everyone enjoyed the activity, keychildren happy –  Great fun.   Just a little bit of fun we have here !

#covid:19 #lockdown2020 #mcdonaldsreopens

It is an honour and humbling to be nominated for the 2020 Child Friendly Leeds Awards 2020.

Its even more so special thinking that we have actually made the SHORTLIST.

The awards ceremony, which is now in its 7th year is taking place on February 6th, its an event that celebrates the hard work that many people are doing across the city of Leeds to make our City the best place for children and young people to grow up in.

The category that we have made the shortlist in is Adult making a difference for young people (21+), its a real sense of proudness and accolode to be nominated but to be grouped together with everyone nominated let alone making the short list is a very special feeling indeed.

You can see the Yorkshire Evening Post article here .

We are truely thankful to everyone that nominted us and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

We simply love the job we do, we are part of the community and our children our “The Future” everything we do within the community is for the benefit of the children and if some adults can have some fun along the way, we say Why Not !

We will keep you posted.

Thank you, much love Karl and Lia xx

At Buttercup Lane Childminders – we have another 3 new children. What a week it has been. We cannot wait until we are firing on all cylinders – we have so many fun and exciting things planned , so we welcome Aiden, Jake and Abi to our extended family.

Buttercup Lane Childminders are commited to delivering exception child care to each and every child with in our care. We focus on each childs interests and we introduce new activities for all, keeping learning fresh and most importantly fun. We construct the “scaffolding” and we let the children use their own ideas to build their knowledge and experience everything that they need as individuals to further their development.

This week we have been on two training courses. These were very interesting and we have learnt a great deal to support our child care.

The Characteristics of Effective Learning

Autism & Aspergers Awareness

Baby Isla is starting today and we can’t wait – we have been planning another fun packed day. We are so excited and we know Isla is looking forward to coming to see us again so we are sure to have a great time.
Another ray of sunshine at Buttercup Lane Childminders .

“They were very flexible and more than willing to help where they could, We have found them to be very approachable, down to earth, friendly people. We feel very comfortable with them, We couldn’t recommend them more.”

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24th to the 30th June is Child Safety week, Here at Buttercup Lane we have the ideas booklet and we will be making this week a complete fun filled weeek we have lots of activities planned already and we will be having a totally amazing time.

We will be having a SUPER HERO DAY were we all need to be dressed as your favourite action heros – so getting planning now.
For more details check out Child Safety Week

Child Safety week at Buttercup Lane Childminders in East Ardsley

Don’t forget that your clocks go forward tonight for British summer times- today we have had rain sleet snow and sunshine but we are now in BST it’s totally crazy but it true . . . Clocks go forward On my way! Hour

“When ever I picked him up he always had a huge smile on his face and I could tell he’d had a wonderful time.”

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