Reception: Observation, Assessment and Planning
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Hi all, a few days ago there were a couple of videos from ofsted, showing apparent outstanding practice in reception and nursery. I know some of you didn't rate them but I just wanted to take a look. I can't find them anywhere, please help xxx
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Celebrations Topic
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Hi I have Reception / Nursery mixed am starting a mini topic on celebrations on Monday and being observed (NQT) and I just really need some inspiration. We are talking 1st about what is a celebration, what do we do at a celebration then talking about chinese new year as we have 1 child who speaks chinese and she celebrates it at home (she has taken home the bear and I have prompted mum to write in here that they are planning it at home). The thing is if I discuss celebrations during the initial carpet time what would you suggest to be a good and interesting adult led activity to follow on, I don't want to show them a book about chinese new year on the 1st day as I want th…
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Characteristics of learning in obs
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Morning all hope you are all well. We record observations on software called fingertips. It allows us to take photos video audio and write obs. We then can put them into the correct AOL and it produces an online learning journey. However at the moment there is no way of slotting obs into characteristics of learning. Do I need to be adding them to our obs somehow? I was thinking of having a doc with all characteristics on and writing ch's initials next to it when we see them displaying this characteristic. My concern with this is that they are then not directly linked to ch observations - do they need to be? Lou x
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Goldilocks and the three bears
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Hi everyone. About to start our next 'talk for writing' topic on Goldilocks. Have done this story previously with the usual activities of making porridge, writing sorry letters, making story maps, role play cottage etc. Just wondered if anyone has any new ideas or things that have worked well on this topic? Many Thanks! C :1b
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I am attempting to do some poetry with my reception children but am out of my comfort zone! We are going to be having another session with touching ice etc then will generate a list of descriptive words. I am unsure how to get the words into a poem though. I am thinking along the lines of having a phrase that they use, eg at the beginning and a different one at the end where they put some adjectives on the middle. Does that make sense? Eg 'ice is.......' at the beginning and then something else that I can't think of at the end. Or is all that really rubbish?! Help!
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Hello to you all! Been a long time since i have been on here - computer issues, among other things! As a recently appointed EYFS coordinator - nearly a year now, i have the huge task of tackling the transition to year 1. Do any of you have a policy in place for this? I have spoken to our current year 1 teachers - both the same conversation and both very different outcomes. I am very aware that as a year 1 teacher - they have to consider the EYFS curriculum and the NC. Any guidance on this matter would be truly appreciated. :rolleyes: Skittles ::1a
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Hi, I have recently purchased and read the Mindstetchers book on Talking and thinking floorbooks as I want to develop this idea further with my class. I, sort-of, do this already - we have umbrella 'themes' (SMT like this!) and talk to the children about the idea e.g. last half-term we did 'night-night' and then planned activities with the children around what interested them in this theme. Currently, we record this on a large sheet for each key group, display and then make a display around the mind-map of what we have learnt. So I think the floorbooks would be a way of extending this further. Has anyone had any experience of using floorbooks, and what worked best for …
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Literacy planning
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Hi, I am just looking some advice about literacy planning. I currently do a weekly lesson plan which has a twenty minute carpet session each day. It starts from a BIg Book at the beginning of the week and by the end of the week we produce a piece of writing e.g. a shopping list or our name or a card (it just depends what our objective/outcome is) I also do seperate 20 min letters and sounds sessions. This has always worked thus far but this year I have a class that have such a wide range of abilities. I have some real high flyers (G&T) and some children who really struggle e.g with pencil control, name writing, pencil holding etc. I am just wondering s…
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Children's focus weeks
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Hello all, I keep reading about people planning from focus children each week in terms of PLODs and Next Steps. At the moment we use ideas/interests/WOW moments generated by all children in setting rather than focusing on anyone in particular. Just wondering if anyone could let me know how it works? Do you just have a timetable of children and work through them over the term/year? We are a 3-form entry F2 unit so 90 children in total...would you choose a number of children from each class? Our planning needs a bit of a shake-up so would be really interested to see how this way of planning works for others? Any helpful formats or resources would be amazing too!!! …
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I've just been finishing off my planning and am having one of those 'am I doing this right?' moments. I have a medium term plan which is very simple - an objective for each area of learning for each week and then I note any particular festivals/events we'll be doing in that week. I have an overall theme for the half-term but then each week plan for those objectives depending on what interests the children are showing. Sometimes it ties in to the overall theme sometimes it doesn't for example last term they were so into fire fighters/engines etc. then it was Christmas that we never got around to the 'official' theme of journeys. This term it's linking a little be…
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