School Curriculum and General issues
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This may seem an odd topic.....but there is a reason for me posting it! I have an interview in early January and as part of the interview I have to take a session with a group of undergraduate students to discuss the characteristics of an Early Years teacher! I have my own ideas, but would welcome others! Any offers?
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Finding Out Table
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HHappy New Year to everyone! I just ned some help- i took over as the reception co-ordiantor in september. we have a finding out table, where we get children to find things out or lok at books, investigate etc. the childrn were all really intersted in mini-beasts so made our own mini-beast area with lots of minibeasts and magnifying glasses, sorting hoops, paper, pencil etc- the children loved this and explored the area well. we also did about light and dark- had the airers out ans drapes- children could go under the table and build a den- nhad reflectives and touches etc- the children also loved this. The problem is everything else we have had out th children have n…
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World Map
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I'm looking for a very simple, cheap or free map of the world to add to my Travel Agent role play area. Anybody got any ideas?
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Key Worker Groups
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I have split my Reception class of 30 into 2 groups and myself the class teacher and my teaching assistant are the Key workers. Up to now this has only really been on paper and for administrative stuff, eg, sorting work, photos, observations into the children's learning journey files. I have been advised that this is only a part of the 'Key worker ethos' and that I should be splitting the teaching time so that we each take our 'groups' for small group teaching, circle time, registration, etc. (effectively having 2 classes in one). I just don't know how this will work in one class (not physically got space for 2 groups to sit) and also timetabling, explaining to paren…
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Foundation Stage Units
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Hi all, We have recently been talking about changing our Nursery abd Reception classes into a Foundation Stage Unit. I was wondering if anyone has been through this already? And if there are any advantages/disadvantages you found when doing so. I look forward to hearing from anyone who has been involved in setting up or working in a Foundation Stage Unit. Thanks
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Encouraging Physical Play!
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Just wondered if anyone had any ideas of extending physical play in a small garden for children aged 2-4 years? We have the usual tunnels, crates, hoops etc...but we would like to provide more equipment and activities that encourage larger physical play like climbing, balancing etc....
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I'm sure I read on here at some point about someone teaching Noah from a Muslim perspective - the story of Nuh. Cannot find any post anywhere resembling this!! Does anyone have any ideas about the post / Nuh / stories from Islam for children? Thank you!
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Spring Term Timetables
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Hi - would anyone be willing to put a copy of their spring term timetable on for me to have a look at please - not sure mine os heading in the right direction at the momnet. Thanks for any responses - i know how tired everyone must be feeling ( if my own experience is anything to go by!!) PS (it's for a reception class) Many Thanks xx
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German Resources
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Hi all, Our school has had 2 new arrivals from Germany over the past couple of days. They have no English at all and I wondered whether anyone knew of any useful resources/websites I could use? Have scoured Sparklebox but not really found anything specific! Tinky
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Lesson Obeservations
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We have just had lesson observastions by our head teacher and are planning to do some peer obersvations with collegues from another school. Shamefully recaeption are being assessed/observed using the same criteria as KS 1 & 2 classess and so are only coming out as satisfactory because the criteria does not match good FS practice. Does anyone have any thing we could use to asses our provision against - OFSTED based???? PLease help, anything would be useful. Drew
