Observation, Assessment and Planning
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Hey, At my setting they have included the COL in the daily planning sheet, so to say how the children learnt during the activity. Which I have been struggling to fill in sometimes as if it is a planned activity i am assessing it tends to be a creating and thinking critically. However, during a recent book i have been reading "how children learn; Characteristics of effective early learning by Nancy Stewart" I have seen more of an understanding of how the different characteristics are observed and what each one is. I was wondering how other settings include the COL in there daily planning. Or is it just a way of setting up the room by allowing for playing and ex…
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Recognising colours
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Hi Does anyone know what prime area subject recognising certain colours comes under please? Thank you Claire
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Dressing up
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A little girl dressed up in a space outfit and said she was going to space in a rocket What area does this come under so I can highlight it please? Thank you
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Short Term planning
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Help!!!!!! Please can anybody out there help me? I teach a Nursery class in a Private School and am getting very frustrated with my weekly planning!!! I have to teach Jolly Phonics at Nursery age, I also do a variety of other Literacy activities alongside Jolly Phonics. My colleague teaches the Mathematics and between us we cover the other areas of learning. I feel we do not get this planning down on paper in an appropriate, easy and helpful way. Has anyone got any good working short term planning templates that work for you??? Also has anyone got any good Literacy ideas for Nursery children? I feel sometimes that all I am teaching them is Jolly Phonics and I am …
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we are looking to re-vamp the book we give out to the parents of new children - has anyone any ideas , suggestions or samples i can look at for inspiration - dont want lots of pages as we have to print these but something that will give a view of the child and parent etc., many thanks
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Hi all I know there has been several threads on here about a mud kitchen but I wondered if I could ask for some tips. I work out of a hall and the only area we have is at the front of the building which we have to keep in a reasonable condition (aesthetically speaking) as the hall community obviously want it to be presentable for the whole local area at all times. We have a shed to the side and a piece of garden where we have a digging bed and a sensory garden, some tree stumps under the trees for bug hunting and a bird table. It looks good so to speak so they are happy for us to keep this here, all toys come in and out of the shed on a daily basis like the rest…
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Just skimmed through the More Affordable Childcare report and have been left thinking that lots of settings are doing far too much unnecessary paperwork. Check out page 20 (2.48) and the table on page 42 of the document. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/more-affordable-childcare Apparently learning journeys are not requirements of the EYFS
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Termly Brick Wall Tracker for FS
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Hi thought I would share this termly tracker for nursery/reception if anyone was interested. We have individual assessment sheets for each child but then on-entry and at the end of each term we plot them on this brick wall by typing their name in the development matters box they are currently working in. It then allows us to spot at a glance where we have gaps in learning for lots of children so we can adapt our planning. Ofsted also like it as they can view the whole class's progress without going through individual files. I tried to put it in the resources section but can't find how to do this? Ps the way it is set up it is best for school nurseries where the child…
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Hi All A set of 2 siblings at our setting have left their day nursery to come to us full time. Today, their mum brought in their learning journeys for us to look at and I am quite confused by them really. They started there in November 2012 and left in July. They have a scrapbook which has only got between 4/5 photos in and none linked to eyfs or any observation notes to go with them. There is no evidence of any observations that have been done during play except 1 sheet in each that is titled 'child's voice' and has a few notes of things the children have said (again not linked to the eyfs). There is a progress summary for the older child but not the little one.…
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Hi All I am having a major overhaul of what we do (as my other posts recently show lol) but was thinking this morning we have two groups of children that start in our setting. The ones that are coming on the term they are three and the ones that start the term after with the funding. Now often both these groups have never been anywhere before so have never had a two year check. They often do go to other nurseries and still haven't had one!! So we used to do them for the children that are starting the term of their third birthday thinking better late than never, but the other group used we didn't as we did a narrative style report on all seven areas at the end of…
