All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Poem Please
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Please can anyone help me? I recently had a complaint from a parent who wanted to know why her baby wasn't doing a painting every day, what does he actually do all day etc (I wouldnt mind, but her son HATES all messy play anyway ) I explained that we do paint but dont necessarily 'produce'. Also explained about the EYFS and how the emphasis is on play etc etc. I remember reading a poem about a parent asking about a child what they did today and the child realing off how busy their day was and the parent just responds with 'what, no picture?' Ive found loads similar but not the one I'm after, any ideas anyone??
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Hi I am the Nursery Teacher in a Nursery Class attached to a primary school. I have three children starting in the nursery after christmas who are not toilet trainned and are still wearing nappies. I am quite happy to accept these children, but don't feel I really know how to support them best. I don't have children of my own so have not toilet trainned a child before and don't have facilities for changing children in the nursery. I am looking for so advice about how to deal with changing children in a school nursery and also any advice to give to parents. Should I encourage parents to send children in pants? I often find parents think accidents will be too much of …
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Working At Home..
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Can I be nosey and ask how many hours of work you put in at home, and how many are paid? We are only a small setting (7 children) and I am paid for 1 hours planning. As we have only 2 staff I can not do any paper work durring session and the committee will only pay us for the hours we are open. So I get paid for 12 hours 15 mins a week (inc planning time). Since I started I have actually worked 13 hours in setting and approx 4 hours at home - so 17 hours a week! I know I am just getting started so maybe I am slow at the paper work and still finding my way - but I can't carry on working nearly 5 hours a week for free!! So before I dissuss this will the commi…
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work in a preschool room children aged from just turned 3 to 4.2 months. we're open 8-6, some do full days others do 8-1 or 1-6 we have contiuous provision and im very passionate about child led activities, alongside continuos provison we plan for 3 or 4 adult led or focus activities to run throughout the week, which we encourage children to take part in but again its their choice if they want to. we having a rolling snack, and stop for lunch midday and tea mid afternoon i dont like to interupt children in their play, especially if they're engorssed but we do stop for singing time before lunch and tea- which they seem to love, and after lunch and tea we sit do…
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After School Care
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Hi i wish to open up an aftter school club and a morning club if required. I am not sure as to what i need to do? I have rang a few schools which have already got afterschool club. I am a manager of a afterschool club and really enjoy it. I want to do it myself now and open up one. I am really struggling to find a school in my area. OFSTED have told me to go ahead aswell as they think i am capable and have got all the qualifications. I hold Diploma in childcare and education aswell as 2.1 in BA in early childhood studies. If anybody could please advise me on this. Thanks Dee
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3+ Funded Sessions
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Hi Everyone!! This is my first time on the forum so I am not really sure how it works!! I currently work in the pre-school room at a day nursery. We have been discussing how we can make the funded sessions more flexible. At present we have funded session from 9am - 12pm mon - fri and 1pm - 4pm mon - wed. What do other settings offer?? all ideas and thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks puja
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Dear all, Can you pls give me a list of responsibilities you can delegate to staff so that all staff can feel valued and involved in the smooth running of the nursery i.e health and safety senco etc. Thanks.
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Use Of Internet With Children
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Iwas wondering if anyone has internet access in the room with children? what are the pros/cons of this? I am trying to convince my setting to allow us to have internet access in the rooms, so we can access information for children there and then - for example if we dont know the answer to their questions, if they want to see what something looks like etc also to access websites with educational games- as we dont have a lot of software, and even to link up with settings in other parts of the world to develop children's knowledge of other places/cultures. obviously there are some point in the EYFS to support the implementation of this: CLL- "Know that infor…
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Hi, have been on a Frist aid course to day and the trainer mentioned sending home head bump advice sheets with children who have had a head bump. do any of you do this in a pre-school setting?. obviously we have our accident book and if we were concerned would ring parent or if really concerned get child to hospital. just wondered not heard anyone mention this before.
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Dear All, I've been shortlisted for interview on the 5th Dec for a university nursery and I'd be greatful for any advice on questions or things to make sure bear in mind. Also I have to do a presentation which I'm not particularly looking forward to. Title: Outline what you consider to be the key priorities of this role and indicate how you would establish yourself in the post. I'm planning on discussing - -The EYFS statutory framework, guidance relating to the importance of raising quality for the children, ensuring effective planning, observation techniques are in place, all statutory framework points are in place, SEF in collaboration with all staff. -Sta…
