Reception: Observation, Assessment and Planning
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Help! Planning!
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HI there, I am new here so apologies if i have posted this in completely the wrong place! I am relatively new to reception and am trying to sort out planning..we dont really have one set way at the moment! I was just wondering what everyone else uses and how you plan for C.I. sessions etc. Any help / advice is much appreciated!
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Hi, this is my first post in this forum so hope it works! We are a 3 form entry infant school and have a shared outside area between the 3 Reception classes. We have trialled different set ups over the years but are struggling to find a way of using the area to it's potential and having free flow for so many children (90). We plan together but operate as 3 separate classes with different timetables for everything except the outside area. Does anyone else have a set up like this and if so how do you manage the outside area - staffing / resourcing / adult led verses CI??? Sorry for so many questions but we desperately need to sort this and need some inspiration and suc…
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Hello, I am due to send out our welcome letter to new parents and children who have been offered places in year R for September. However I have also found out that the same letter has been sent out for nearly 15yrs!! Any help or support with what you include in your letters, format etc would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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This is probably a stupid question with no set answer but I would still like some opinions please! We are due ofsted any day now and therefore I am questionning and doubting my every move!! We have a canopy covering our outdoor area which is set up and used regardless of the weather. Is this enough or should I be setting up appropriate activities that are not in the covered area for children to use? We do have all in one waterproof suits but the children find them really difficult to put on (reception) and we don't have the man power to have someone helping them with it all day long. I don't want to let myself down on something like this!
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Lack Of Outdoor Area
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Hi, I'm a FS coordinator in a private school and teach Reception. The head and I are currently racking our brains trying to figure out how we can provide the Reception children with free flow access to the outdoors when there is no direct access from the classroom! In order to use the outdoor area, the children either need to go down a set of steps and through fire doors, or along the corridor past the hall onto the top playground. We have explored the options of band systems and letting the children walk outside, but then the question about fire alarms was raised! If there are 5 bands missing, I presume 5 children are on top playground, but my class line up on…
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Frog Music
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Hello I am hoping someone out there might be feeling musical. I am planning a dance lesson for my reception class and would like to put their movements together at the end of the session to some music. They will be showing the life cycle of a frog through dance/movement. Any ideas please? Thanks
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We are looking to set up a Reception only unit for 60 children - have 2 interlinking rooms, an easily accessible outdoor area, 2 teachers and 2 TAs - can anyone share their experiences/organisation/planning formats please? Thanks
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Showing Progress In Reception
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Hey folks, New to Reception in September(next). How do you show progress within the EYFS year? Do you take the transition info. you receive from pre-schools and log the levels they assessed them at against development matters as your starting point? But they might have achieved something there but regress with you. Or do you assess yourself in first few week against the ELGs? Is it to your benefit to assess them as quite low in order to show progress and do you assess against every one of the 28 areas? Although i know it will be different with new EYFS. How on earth to you observe 28 children in all areas of the 6 DM areas in first few weeks? Going into a schoo…
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Phonics
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Hello I am a nqt going into reception in the summer term and have been away eyfs for a few months having spent 9 months being a nursery teacher and need to get my head around phonics, where would the children be around this time of the term in regards to phases? how have people found the best way to plan phonics? What should I be focussing on? I would like to do a good job and have some ideas before I go in to school because I as in ks2 for a while and it didn't o so well now so I'm a bit worried I can only teach nursery and am rubbish at anything else any help on how to approach this would be great thanks.
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Handwriting
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Hello I am doing a activity on handwriting patterns inside a fish cut out with reception what is the best materials to use apart from felt tips to use what patterns would you focus on? Wavy lines and anything lse thanks for any help
