All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Using Beans In Nursery
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after using dried beans as a mix in the builders tray for 3 years, someone has told me we shouldn't do it because beans are poisonous if eaten raw- does anyone else out there use them ? or does anyone know which beans, if any aren't poisonous?
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Help With My Planning Required
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Hi everyone ive been running my preschool for under a year, so far its going great, i just seem to struggle with the planning side of it, i want to delegate but not until i know this side of the preschool for myself as all my staff are new to the EYFS. We have been on the local courses but, still not sure if im getting it right. Can anyone help.
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Gentle Questions To Show Impact
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Hi, I've been racking my brains on this one. I need to come up with about 12 questions to ask at the start of our new 'nurture type' group. The questions will be asked both at the start of the programme ( about 10 weeks) and also at the end. The problem is how do you ask very open questions in a 'gentle' way. things like eg. How do you feel about attending this group? What types of play activities do you do with your children? We need to measure impact........ Would love some suggestions. Or if you have done something similar i would love to see how you recorded the impact. thank you so much. Sunshine
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Job Description
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Does anybody have an update preschool assistant job description they could share with me. I've tried searching the forum but cant find one or I'm not looking very well. thank you
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Does any one know where I can buy child size toilets and cubicle doors.Thanks
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Hi Need to put a plan in place for next September's intake to Nursery. We are part of a school and have 2 pt nurseries am and pm, morning and afternoon, 2 1/2 hour sessions. Obviously it will have to be 3 hours. Where can I get some advice I am waiting for our LA to advise. I have searche forums but can't fine anything. Thank you.
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15 Hours Flexibility
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Hi, I'm a Nursery teacher in a maintained Nursery that has just joined together with a pvi nursery on the same site. Our rooms were right next to each other and we have now opened the linking door, so instead of 2 separate rooms and 2 separate outdoor areas we are one large one and are now offering the 15 hours (no set sessions, very flexibly!) We can therefore have up to 52 children in any of the 3 areas, 6 members of staff (whose lunchtimes and start/end hours vary) and all the children arriving and leaving at different times throughout the day!! Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep count (having fire nightmares!!!), and keep my staff happy - think were al…
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Too Messy?
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Hello everyone, as you may be aware my situation in a new position has been slightly rocky to start with and I am still coming up against it with my Admin Manager.....we have our job descriptions, we have our roles and although she is of a different school of thought to me....we, last week had a good week and I genuinely thought things were going to be ok. Well today she asked me to help her with the SEF (that I wrote for her and she is tweaking) - so being the adult that I am I asked if she was ok with the changes I have made....I wish I hadn't asked she reiterated all of the things she said to me the first day she talked to me aggressively and angrily and said that the…
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Circle Time
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I am currently working in a sessional pre-school, which when full, will have 24 children ranging from 2.6-4 years old. We know we should be doing circle time, and we are doing it, but have been advised to split the children into groups to ensure smaller circles relevant to their age/stage. The trouble we are having now is how to divide the children and when to hold circle time within each session. Some of our children attend all day so would, in effect be part of 2 circle times. What do you do in this instance because I would assume you wouldn't do the same session twice? In my experience, pre-EYFS, the children would come into the setting and have circle tim…
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hi i am new to the forum and was wondering if anyone had any ideas for what to put in a writing area, investigationa dn exploration area for nursery! thanks Rachael
