Reception: Observation, Assessment and Planning

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   Formative/formal/summative/testing

   July 3, 2005 by Guest

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   Hi I need to do the above and to show types of different assessment and how they support the development of children. Will try to link it to theory and stages of development. I know formal is like SATs, and that summative may be end of year tests, but I'd be grateful for other ideas. regards

   

   Last reply by Guest, July 4, 2005
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   Medium & Long Term Planning

   July 3, 2005 by Guest

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   can anyone help? we are currently rejigging our planning and want to be more child led. How do you go about planning (long & medium term)? How much detail do you need? If anyone is willing to share I would be really grateful

   

   Last reply by Guest, July 3, 2005
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   Quotations

   June 11, 2005 by AnonyMouse_4169

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   I enjoy reading the quotations on this site and have decided to have a quotation of the week. anyone know of any more good quotations

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 17, 2005
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   Going Round In Circles!

   May 30, 2005 by Guest

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   I've had this chat before!! I just need to air it again before I go completely insane. Right, have a new head that started at Easter - he's fantastic. On the ball the lot. He's moving the school forward and he's only been around half a term. Problem - the FS co thinks that we are immune to any changes related to raising standards. She thinks if we ignore it, if we plan to have people coming in to talk to Early Years staff at the same time as the rest of the school are having ISP consultants coming in to talk about targets and planning formats, then we don't have to do them. If we pretend to our school improvement officer that we are doing things, if we tell the…

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 11, 2005
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   Topic Week- Vikings

   February 2, 2005 by Guest

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   At school we have regular project weeks. Next half term it is the Vikings. In our foundation stage unit we try to join in with these weeks, but i am having a few problems with ideas. Has anybody got any ideas, names of books, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 9, 2005
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   Little Red Hen

   June 5, 2005 by Guest

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   Hi I am experimenting with planning using stories - and I am using the little red hen story. Has anyone any good ideas for activities? I am incubating chicken eggs, making bread, maybe making butter and need somemore good ideas. Thanks

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_2776, June 9, 2005
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   Observations And Planning Formats

   June 4, 2005 by Guest

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   Hi All, I need to do lots of observations on one child for my FD. I am particularly looking at Cognitive, Language and possibly social development. Can anyone give me any tips or ideas to any good planning formats eg. time sampling? Would like to do tracking plan but can't see how this would be done on a year 1 child. Hope this makes sense thanks

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 7, 2005
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   We Have Ofsted In At The Moment...

   May 16, 2005 by Guest

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   Just a quickie really... the inspector on the OFSTED team assigned to the FS seems to be infatuated with how mnay children are working ABOVE the ELGs and how I know. I told her I know because I use the e-profile as an ongoing tool... so it's always up-to-date, and I could show her there and then. Points 8 and 9 on the profile are deemed to be working above the ELGs apparently. But what I was wondering was, on average, how many children do you have achieving all points, PLUS 8 and 9 in reading and writing? Thanks ~Paul

   

   Last reply by AnonyMouse_3307, June 6, 2005
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   Planning From Stories

   June 5, 2005 by AnonyMouse_1208

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   There was a recent discussion about planning from stories - I can't find it anywhere!! Can someone please point me in the right direction?!

   

   Last reply by Guest, June 5, 2005
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    Help With A Previous Query

    June 5, 2005 by Guest

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    This post is a copy of something I've already entered on paulparkie's 'We have Ofsted in at the moment...'. Because I joined in the discussion so late (story of my life!) I think maybe my post hasn't been read and I would really like help. I know, from past experience, how helpful you all are. My query is regarding the discussion about the typical level of achievement on the FSP: perhaps it's just me being dense but, like Susan, I was under the impression that points 4 - 8 for each area weren't dependent upon each other i.e. that each 'stood alone' (it seems to indicate this in the front of 'Curriculum guidance...). If this is true, what are the implications for Catm…

    

    Last reply by Guest, June 5, 2005