All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Problems Out Walking!
by Guest- 10 replies
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Hi all, I am in need of inspiration!! We take the children out for walks from our playgroup. We have to walk through our town center to get any where. We all walk in a double line, children holding hands, staff holding on to little ones. We have practiced this so often that the children have now got the hang of it!! and we can stay together as we walk. The problem we are finding is that other shoppers seam to be blind to the fact that we are there, we can be walking along and someone will come out of a shop and walk through us or stop in the middle of us to have a chat with some one!! To help us over come this we have found a local company who will kindly buy us all h…
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Literacy Strategy
by Guest- 12 replies
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We have just had an inset day with the local infant school and they have said that because everything needs to be done much faster with the new literacy strategy that we need to cover all the phonemes in nursery. What do you think? I know what I think but I wouldn't mind other opinions. Sue
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Timed Observations
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Please has anyone got a copy of a timed observation pro-forma that i could look at. Thanks
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Christmas Play
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im planning a christmas play with 35 children aged between 2 and 4 and i was wondering when do you start practicing for these we are using our local church and i want to ensure that the children feel comfortable in this setting we are allowed keys for the church so practicing whenever we want isnt a problem xjojomx
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Interviews
by Guest- 8 replies
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HI I am interviewing tommorow for nursery assistants, but how many people should you have on interview panel?, I have myself, and another manager from the other nursery, but i really wanted my deputy in on the interviews too.... so is three people too daunting do you think? Dawn
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Christmas Plays/parties
by Guest- 5 replies
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Just want to thrash this out and see what everyone else thinks about this. here goes. What would you think if the head told you that the christmas play and party was going to be in the same morning,with the morning and afternoon children in one session. We are doing a join production with reception and will have all the parents there for the play. After we will separate and the parents of the nursery children and children will then go to the nursery to have party games and food with only 2 adults at the moment and one student. One good point is that it is encouraging parent/school links Issues: It is over ratio!!! What other health and safety issues could th…
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Products For Sale In Your Nursery?
by Guest- 21 replies
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I'm trying to decide on some products to sell to help boost our takings. We don't have much storage room for large items but I'm sure we are missing out on sales of products to parents just not sure what. Any suggestions or examples of what works for you would be very helpful.
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Hi Please help! I have a parents evening tomorrow - Does anyone have a written piece on free flow play and child initiated learning- explaining what it is that I can show my parents. I was going to do this tonight however ive just found out that a member of staff who is leaving next week hasnt even started writing up her childrens progress report and has also announced she cant come in tomorrow so hey Im going to have to do it so I will be up til the early hours no doubt! Thanks x
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What Motivates You?
by Guest- 24 replies
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In your working lives - what motivates you? Am going to ask my staff next month as part of a Supervision excercise.
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Nursery Education Magazines
by Guest- 5 replies
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Does anyone have back copies of Nursery Education for Sept 05 and Oct 05 that I could buy or photocopy? Have tried ordering them but they are out of print.
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