School Curriculum and General issues
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Hi all, I have just come back to work after a long period of sickness and would like to know if anyone can help me on 2 subjects. First I need to develop a child information sheet to fill in with parents/carers when doing their home visit. This info needs to give us lots of info about what their child is able to do before coming to school. Secondly I have come back to this progress matters document. We have been using e profile in Reception to track progress but it looks like double the workload for the Reception teachers to carry out, e profile and progress matters. However I cannot see how just using the progress matters on its own would work as it is not broken…
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Snack Time In The Afternoon
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Hi there I had a parents' appointment this afternoon (they couldn't make the date in October). Anyway I've been aware that the parents have food issues. Mum has asked me to make sure she chooses the animal protein meal (in those words). She has also complained about them being offered a small piece of bread to go with their pizza as that's too much carbohydrate. Anyway the food part of the meeting started when they were asking is the children can choose what they eat. I said that the dinner ladies should monitor what they eat and inform me if anyone is not eating but I hadn't been old anything but I would speak to them about it. The mum then started asking about…
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Risk Assessments
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Just thought colleagues may be very interested in this website http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/mar09.htm lots of sensible advice but I love the myths of the month and I am printing off those that are applicable for me and laminating them to others know some of these stories we hear are in fact myths! Lorna
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hi, not used this before so hope i'm doing this right. wondered if anyone has any good ideas for a literacy lesson on percy park-keeper? i have my performance management observation by head next week and my brain is mush... she loves all things creative!
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Not That Soon Surely..please Help
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Oh my god we got the call today!!! They are in on Monday!! We are not due for another 4 months I am struggling for a literacy focus. We are looking at the rainbow fish this week we have been fishing sounds to make cvc words. At the moment a small number of children are writing but not many at all. Next week i am going to take in a toy fish for children to adopt (we already have real ones) I was gonna do a bit about he had lost his tank or firends or something and hunt for them. Then i was thinking that the children could maybe do posters or something to help find his friend or maybe the rainbow fishes scales??? I am struggling any help or clarification would be greatly…
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Does anyone have one of these that I can take a look at please?
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Writing In The Writing Area
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Any tricks or tips to get my children actually writing at the writing area? I have all the usual exciting pens and notepads, as well as whiteboards and templates for things like letters and lists etc, plus blank paper (lined, squared and plain alternately). At the moment all the children want to do though is draw, they even turn over the pre-made templates and draw on the back of the pieces of paper, taking the markers and the felt tips to this area to do the drawings rather than using the laid out resources. These are year one children and this is driving me crazy, there is a place for drawing, but these children really need to be mark making and writing at least som…
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Admissions Policy Transition Policy
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Hi all I have been asked to write an admissions policy and a transitions policy for our school. I teach in the reception class. I have never written a policy before and was wondering if anyone had one they would be willing to share so i have an idea of what im meant to do!!! Many thanks Lola
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Not Accessing Phonics?
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I have a child who doesn't appear to be picking up phonics at all, even though he is in the top 10% of the class in terms of reading ability. His writing is very poor and it is becoming obvious that phonics just isn't for him. Everything he can read I'm sure he must have learnt by sight and he uses strategies such as predication and looking at pictures to help him decipher text. He's is actually a really good reader compared to most year one children I've come across, not just this class. What can we do for him? We went on phonics training recently and they mentioned children like this and said that there might be 10% of children in a class for whom phonics will never…
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Lesson Observation Criteria Please
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Hi everyone, Do any of you know (or does your school use) a lesson observation proforma for grading observations under OFSTED criteria? Our primary school has one and the same criteria are used throughout all year groups. What about observed lessons in FS2? Are you expected to have an objective, clearly defined in a starter, with a main session and then a plenary? Feeling really fed up and cross about the uncertainty as to what is actually 'good' in early years.
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