PURPLE POST June 2021
A warm welcome to the June edition of Purple Post
We hope you have all had a good June, and are looking forward to final lockdown restrictions being lifted this month.
In this month's Purple Post, a reminder about the online courses, which are essential for our continuing professional development, the development team give us an update on what projects they have been working on; and many new resources have been uploaded to the staff intranet to help us, our learners and our settings.
Parenta Webinar: "what does school readiness actually mean?"
In June, we delivered another successful webinar focused around 'School Readiness', a topic that is very important to our customers as we approach the start of the new academic year. We had amazing speakers on the day, including our amazing guest authors and industry experts, Tamsin Grimmer and Dr. Kathryn Peckham, who discussed what 'school readiness' actually means and how we can help children as they approach this milestone in their life.
Updates from the IT team
Over the last month we have:
- Made good progress on updating Footsteps 2 to support the new EYFS framework
- Collaborated and continue to work with Customer Experience, Marketing, Sales and Finance teams to run our set of studies around software development at Parenta
- We have continued our Existing Customers study
- We have also conducted a Pricing Study
- Implemented enhancements on Dayshare and Abacus
- Implemented and delivered maintenance fixes on Footsteps and Parent Portal
Message from the People Team
Hello all just a friendly reminder that your mandatory CPD needs to be completed
by 9th July 2021.
If you are having any trouble in accessing your i-Hasco account, please do email us at hrsupport@parenta.com and we will be able to send you a log in link.
Mandatory CPD Courses:
- Safeguarding Children (Level 2)
- Equality and Diversity
- Prevent Duty
- GDPR EU: Essentials
- Health and Safety Essentials
- Modern Slavery
- + the addition of ‘Safer Recruitment in Education’ for Managers.
Please don’t forget to use the staff intranet – it’s packed with resources to help us, our learners and our settings
A reminder that all Parenta resources to help ourselves, our learners and settings can be found here on our intranet, all in one handy place.
We publish additional industry expert advice, news articles and crafts in our free magazine and on our blog.
We publish additional industry expert advice, news articles and crafts in our free magazine and on our blog.
Here are this month’s How to Guides and new additions to the staff intranet:
ATSA contract documents:
New EYFS (Sep 2021) teaching and learning documents:
- The EYFS from September 2021
- EYFS 2021 Changes - Literacy
- EYFS 2021 Changes - Mathematics
- EYFS 2021 Changes - Communication and Language
- EYFS 2021 (September) Mathematics
- Development Matters Training for Managers
- Cultural Capital
OTJH documents:
- Parenta ESFA OTJ Calculator
- Instructions for Updating OTJH - Onefile Journal Entry whilst in portfolio
- Instructions for Updating OTJH - Onefile Journal Entry
Assessor quiz resources for EPA:
- Level 3 quiz questions
- Level 3 quiz answers
- Behaviour quiz questions
- Behaviour quiz answers
- Equality and diversity quiz questions
- Equality and diversity quiz answers
- Health and safety quiz questions
- Health and safety quiz answers
- EYP safeguarding quiz questions
- EYP safeguarding quiz answers
- SEND quiz questions
- SEND quiz answers
- Wellbeing quiz questions
- Wellbeing quiz answers
Spotlight on… Susan Russell
This month, we caught up with Susan who was the Kudos winner for May!
Entice new customers with the power of testimonials!
We have received some amazing testimonials. The positive endorsements that we receive from our existing customers are not only a great way for giving praise to the individuals or teams concerned, but are used as a valuable marketing tool to attract new customers!
Please ensure that after every positive interaction you have with a customer you ask them if they would be willing to send in a short testimonial and then follow up with the usual link https://www.parenta.com/testimonial/
Tina Butler is a very competent assessor who supports her candidates to the end of their course. Giving them extra help if needed and getting to know them and what is needed from each candidate.
A caring professional.
Lisa Dewar - Rainbow Day Nurseries
Keep those high fives coming!
Thanks to all those who have been giving kudos throughout the month – please keep it going, it’s important now more than ever to give each other a deserved ‘pat on the back’. We have a winner for June – Sarah Ellis....congratulations Sarah!
Don't forget you can start voting for our July employee of the month already. Keep that Kudos coming and please give recognition for all the hard work our colleagues are doing.
Welcome to:
- Sherral Payton
- Emma Springett
- Claire Sharpe
- Amrita Dhaliwal
- Katrina Jones
- Billy McConville
- Lauren Daniels
- Sarah Hubbard
- Hayley Colwell
- Jo Bridgeman
- Melonie Ware
Goodbye to:
- Cerina Bhurji
- Sandra Boxall
- Gareth Williams
- Chimeine Ali
- Kristin Doulai
- Sadie Dyson
Did you know?
July is National Picnic month
During June we experienced some warm weather, which we hope will spread over to July as this month marks the start of National Picnic Month. The epitome of British summertime!
When the sunshine comes your way try to get outside and have a picnic with your family and friends.
Parenta Magazine
Our free monthly magazine is packed with news articles and advice pieces - all of which are written to help nursery managers with the efficient running of their settings and to promote the health, happiness and well-being of the children in their care. Please do read it and send the magazine link
to your contacts.
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