Observation, Assessment and Planning
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Hi, I'm finding that we are often short of observations for People & Communities. I'm evaluating whether we need to include further resources to encourage this area of development. When we do get observations, the children are showing progress but we are often having to focus on this area to 'find' the observations during our interactions. Any ideas? Thanks Green Hippo x
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Hi I am struggling to find a decent way to do this to show how groups of children are making progress. We don't have any computer programs like tapestry so its a bit of a nightmare. Appreciate any help/examples
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I'm currently conducting research on Looked After Children in the early years. I'm looking for practitoners to give their honest opinions on Looked After Chidren within the early years. This is completely anoymous! If you have five minutes this is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/H9JPDV6 Remember this is Completely anonymous and there are NO wrong answers! Also if you feel like foster/kinship carers you know or that attend your setting may want to share their opinion from a carer point of view this is a link they can use https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/PXRTHC5 Thank you so much!
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Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any examples of practice using challenge cards for maths and literacy that they send home with their pre-school children. I've just taken over a new pre-school and one of the most impressive factors for me was the strong relationship practitioners have with parents/carers. I have quite a few children who are able to rise confidently and willingly to new challenges and I thought to extend their learning (and probably their parents too) at home, I would creating challenge cards that the parents can take independently from the nursery notice board to captive their children's interest in maths and literacy. I have managed to …
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Hi Does anyone else not set next steps? We are a very small group with only 13 children on roll so we know the children very well. The same staff work every session. We found that when setting next steps, staff were constantly looking for children achieving them but missing other learning that was taking place and some children were not achieving them for quite a while, particularly those that only attend for 3 hours a week! We have not been doing them since Christmas and we have observed a lot more learning and the children are happy, engaged and progressing well. However, we have our improvement advisor on our backs so I just wanted to know if anyone…
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Apologies this has probably been discussed loads of times before! But just wondering what everyone else does. I run a busy playgroup with 25 children attending morning/afternoons/full days. And have 9 staff who work a variety of shift patterns. Now we are quite fortunate that our committee are very supportive and understanding that they have allowed the staff to have a paid 3 hour session do complete admin, (obs, planning etc) we have just moved to the tapestry system and our committee have asked that the tablets/obs a etc remain in the building and no work is taken home or done at home. Some of my staff are in uproar and say they won't have sufficient time to do file…
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Hi all We have just purchased tapestry - can anyone tell me the simplest way to set a starting point for each child as you input them please? We have an existing age and stage plotted for each child and want to include this so that when we do our reports they are continuing with the information that we already have - do I set these as a base line assessment or is there another way? Thank you
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Hi I've got a group of boys who need to develop their shoulder and wrist strength and stability in order to develop their pencil grip and control. (when they mark-make some of them still use a grasp hold, otherwise an unstable modified tripod and none of them put their wrist on the table.) Please could you suggest some more ideas for me to try - in case I'm missing something effective that I can do with them. Thanks.
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setting next steps
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How often, in general do practitioners set next steps for children?
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We recently had our ofsted visit. It did not go as expected for a couple of reasons. One being as tapestry is new into our setting and all staff were not confident in using the system, the other was because we could not show how the children develop. Since the visit we have started using a tick chart to mark the children's ages and stages but I feel we need to do more. We do checks on entry and 2 year. Can anyone share their ideas and how they record the children's progress other than on tapestry, or do some people only use tapestry as we used to? Thanks
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