School Curriculum and General issues
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Small World Play
by Guest- 12 replies
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Have been given some money by my headteacher to buy some small world play toys/equipment. I would really love some building with extras as we have a dolls house and a pintoy fire station both of which are very popular! I am hoping that I can begin to rotate our resources rather than always having these 2 out. Any ideas?
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Teacher Net How Does It Work?
by Guest tinkerbell- 5 replies
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Hi can any one help me? I ordered lots of publications over the past years and now when I went to order a new maths publication I got red writing telling me I cannot order any more Tinkerbell
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A Little Advice Please
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I work part-time as a nursery teacher in a nursery attached to a primary school. The space I have is lovely BUT very open plan. This means I am on show for the whole of the period - I don't mind this because I'm not doing anything I shouldn't but I am constantly under the watchful eye of the Headteacher. She has in the past told me that there is far too much talk going-on with my nursery nurse before sessions start - when I've tried to explain, she says "I don't want to know, stop the chatter." Anyway yesterday she called me in to discuss some matters and again mentioned about talking with my nursery nurse - I got the chance to explain that we talk about the children,…
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Hi everyone! having a major panic as my headteacher wants me to completely re-aarange everything in eyfs after a SIP visit. I am new to eyfs and so have NO experience in Reception at all. How do you organise the 6 areas of learning in the class room? What sort of activities need to be available? How many children do you work with over a day and how many areas? Does anyone have any examples of planning which they could let me look at so that I might get some idea of what is expected? many thanks kazdav1
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Reading Books
by Guest- 7 replies
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I have just started as a Reception teacher and would love some advice about reading books. The previous teacher did give the children books to take home when they were ready. They started with picture only books and promps for parents about discussion. then they move onto books with words. My only concern is that the schemes they use in school (they have combined a few schemes into the book bands) are old and give the children a strange context of a way of life we no longer have. But my main concern is that even the first couple of books with words only have 1 or 2 few decodeable words in them. They start with labels such as princess and giant. Is this normal or should…
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Behaviour
by Guest- 3 replies
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Hi all, I need to pick your brains. I am a teacher in a reception class. The class as a whole are very well behaved and behaviour as a whole has never been an issue. However when it comes to gathering and sitting on the carpet they can become very chatty and silly e.g. chatting to the person next to them, spinning on the carpet etc. They do stop when asked but can start up again. I don't like to keep stopping and starting again and I don't really like to raise my voice and repeating myself. Can anyone tell me any stratgies they use that work to keep this to a minimum? I do the usual like follow me exercises and simon says to keep the children focused i would j…
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Chinese Story
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Hi everyone. We are hoping oto put on a whole (infant and nursery) school play with the story line of a traditional chinese story. Does anyone know of a book with one in? We don't want to do the new year story as we are already featuring this in another part of our Chinese festival. Thanks in advance for picking your brains
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Pie Corbett - Talk For Writing
by Guest- 1 follower
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Hi, I've been researching Talk for writing - Pie Corbett and i'm really intersted in doing this with my Reception class. Do any of you follow it with your classes? I was just wondering what the planning looks like as I'm not sure how to start it. Thanks
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Hi, On certain days we have free flow with the whole year group in all areas, i think i may need a name to define this free flow time for the children. Does anyone have any good ideas as to a name for this time? One school i worked at called it 'busy bee time' which is a possibility but i'd love to hear any other ideas! thank you
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Mucking Around During Cil?
by Guest- 6 replies
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Hi, every week we are finding that during CIL some children seem to spend there time running around the classroom with lego models or generally just mucking around not doing much. We spend a lot of time ensuring that we make all resources available, as well as put out new fun activities for the children to take part in and interesting tuff spots etc but we are finding that a lot of children are not spending their time learning. At times we feel as though CIL is a bit of a free for all where some children are not gaining anything. We are a boy heavy year group with 15 girls to 33 boys, i'm not sure whether this may make a difference? Does anyone have any ideas as t…
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