Sue and Catherine’s Childcare

Lots of learning opportunities and
Lots of questions- where do pigs live, what do they eat and drink , why do they like mud, can we eat the chives

A firm favourite activity of the children’s 🎨

Creating together and using different stamps and colours to make beautiful art

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From flower drawings to magical mud kitchen potions! 🌸 ✨🧪
The children used sand, water and petals to mix up their own creations ! So much imagination and messy fun!

There’s something so special about learning through nature 🌸🌸🌸
Today the children carefully observed these vibrant flowers and recreated them in their own unique way!

Today we enjoyed some wonderful outdoor sensory play with water and sand 💧

The children explored pouring, scooping and mixing while developing their fine motor skills, coordination and problem solving. There were lots of conversations, teamwork and imaginative play as they experimented with textures and watched how the water changed the sand. They made ‘mud pies’ and stamped the shells in the sand to make pretty patterns! 🐚

Let's talk about the removal of the 10% wear and tear allowance once childminders move over to MTD shall we? I mean obviously it's fine, we'll be bought in line with other self employed professionals right?

Because they obviously have their customers coming into their house like mini whirlwinds and trashing it on the daily don't they?

I know loads of hairdressers with home salons whose customers regularly wee on the chairs.

All the plumbers I know have wrecked carpets because their customers haven't quite learned to take their muddy boots off at the door yet and are always missing their mouths when they eat anything.

I reckon every electrician I've met has 'artwork' and handprints and black pen.....pretty much everywhere because their customers were learning mark making.

Let's have a show of hands from the builders who needed to buy a new sofa because the last one was used as a 'boat, slide, house, climbing frame' by their clients!

And let's not forget all the make up artists whose lawns are now basically a swamp from clients running around and playing with vehicles and spades out there all Winter.

HEAVY sarcasm aside, this decision, once again shows us how misunderstood the unique nature of childminding is. We are lone workers. If we're not having to pay someone to fix the daily wear and tear we're cleaning, fixing, painting and laying down laminate in on our own time. When we lose the 10% we're going to be spending our time trying to figure out what percentage of our handprint covered wall is used for childminding (very little clarity from HMRC on this by the way) Is our time worth nothing then? You're looking at a workforce that already feels undervalued, misunderstood and are leaving in droves. We love this work and we know how much our parents need and value our flexibility and the uniqueness of what we can offer, stop making it harder for us to stay.

Childminders (and parents or anybody that supports us!!) sign the petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754843

Coram PACEY have also produced a letter for childminders and one for parents to send to MP's to lobby for change. They can be found here:

https://www.corampacey.org.uk/coram-pacey-latest-making-tax-digital-update/

Cyng/Cllr Clive Davies
Coram PACEY Cymru
Teuluoedd Ceredigion Families
The Labour Party
Cyngor Sir Ceredigion
Early Years Wales

Lots of building fun today 🧱 The children used Lego and blocks to copy pictures and create their own models.

We also built a bus outside 🚌

More gingerbread baking today for those who weren’t here last week!
They were absolutely delicious 😋