All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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I am in the middle of a Hanen Course - (promoting children's social, language and literacy development in early years settings) I am now looking for more ideas on promoting peer interaction - what activities to do or use? I should have a reluctant child, ( one who doesn't initiate and has difficulty getting in on the act with his peers) and a fairly quiet child, but one that does initiate occasionally. I have thought of using the Brio train set (encouraging them to work together to set up the track), perhaps an activity in the sand or water - it should be something where they need to talk to each other about what they are doing, without me 'interfering' too much. By…
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We are just in the process of revamping our welcome desk, and we wondered what other settings paricularly preschools/playgroups have on theirs? so far we have various signing in forms (staff, children, visitors) comments book policies ofsted report noticeboard has certificates and general information we have just setup a second table to let parents know about our provision for foundation stage (trying to encourage parents to think twice before leaving for nursery) this has another notice board and a display about the value of play, some photos leaflets display book with information about play and the links to development copies of blank development fi…
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How Rude!
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Thought I would share this - we are currently doing All About Me as a theme, talking about colours of eyes today one little girl looked into my eyes and said "your eyes are RED and green", I have been quite tired lately and that confirmed how tired I must look!! A bit later on a different girl asked me if I had hurt my face, she was referring to the dark circles under my eyes, apart from that I looked great today!! Hope you all had a good day.
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Art Week
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hello everyone! Next week is Art week and the school has invited a professional dancer an artist and a musician to lead workshops with the different classes. We also need to create an art display to go in the shared areas around the school. Any ideas? The work that we will display will not be linked to those workshops. Thanks
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Staff Training
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, I thought I read somewhere that every member of staff was entitled to a certain amount of time attending training courses Does anyone know anything about this - I need to fight the case for paid training for my staff with a committee
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Break Entitlements At Work
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HI i hear so many conflicting view on this, what are we entitled to in terms of breaks... someone at work said that if you work a 9 - 6 shift your entitled to a half hour lunch break (paid). what we get at work (we have no morning or afternoon break) is an hour lunch however unpaid.... what is it like in your setting. I know at my last nursery i had a 30 minute paid lunch break,and at my nursery before that we had a thirty minute unpaid lunch but we had two 15 mins breaks (paid) in the day. how does it work in your settings. I work in a private nursery if that makes a difference? Dawn
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Inappropriate Behaviour
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Hello again Trying to put together a pro forma 'tracking sheet' to record incidents of inappropriate behaviours for a child who has special educational needs. Child has started to 'assert her authority' and is regularly pushing and 'neck holding' other children. After chatting with Area Learning Support teacher on a recent assessment of the child, teacher indicated . . "if it is not recorded, then it didn't happen" - moral of the tale - record EVERY incident, no matter how many times a session it occurs. Has anyone got a ready made sheet available, or shall I continue to make my own???? Would love it if someone has 'been there and done that' already. Looking forward to …
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Parent's Newsletters
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I am trying to find a nice and relatively easy way of making a catchy and bright parents newsletter as our current one is basically black and white with lots and lots of typing and no pictures. Has anyone any idea where I can find a template that I could use to make newsletters? I have looked on Clip Art but the templates there are a bit 'grown up' for our pre-school and we can generally fit all our information onto one page rather than 3/4. Thanks!
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Children Signing In
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We have a basket that children post 'letters' with their names on when they arrive at nursery it seriously needs a wake up! What do you use in your setting> thanks
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Qts In Children's Centres
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has anyone delivered any staff meetings or training as the qualified teacher in children's centre? if so, can you tell me what you did? I am starting to prepare for my first meeting with the staff and I am curious as to what others have done. Thanks!!
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