All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Does anybody have a fabulous fail safe bird feeder receipe that is suitable for the children to make? Tried something years ago and it was a disaster, so have not tried since.
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Reading campaign
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Can anyone Remember the title of a reading campaign a couple of years ago....something catchy about reading 10 minutes a day....? Looking to do this again in our children's centres....
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music for christmas show
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the lady who usually plays the piano for our christmas 'show' (singing a few christmassy songs) has moved over half term and can no longer play for us. i wondered about downloading songs and using them as a backing track. but all songs sound different as by different people which may be a bit weird? any ideas anyone? x
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Toomuchtoosoon
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am going to London today to support this campaign . Are any of you going?
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good progress in nursery - help!
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yes, it's that time of year again - performance management!! we have a new head and have combined to make an all through primary and all staff have a target of their class making good progress. so what is this for nursery? some say moving through 3 steps is expected progress. so i guess this is a bare minimum, so good would be 4? e.g. child at 30-50 emerging expected to be 40-60+ consolidating for good progres? what do you all think? x
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check out this link it made me giggle http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/mr-goves-brilliant-idea/
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Hi all Any ideas how to discourage this? We seem to have a few persistent suckers and try as I might to encourage them not to e.g. Talk about hygiene, germs etc... They can't help themselves
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Hi, I don't know if anyone can relate. But I have recently had a civil partnership and because one of my colleagues has a child that attends my school, most of the children know my sexual orientation. I wouldn't say that I have advertised my 'gayness' but I have not ignored it either. I am not ashamed that I have a female partner but at the same time don't know how to handle it appropriately within my primary school. My head teacher has been completely supportive and said she will support me with whatever I want to express to the children. But Im not sure what is the right thing? At what age are children ready to know that love can be with any person of any gender?? But a…
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Hi all we are having a story inspire workshop with parents and children after half-term and I am looking for ideas for activities. In the past we have started with a little introduction for parents re the benefits of reading with their child and then the children come into the hall to do activities based around stories. These are some of the activities that we could do 1. Have story sacks out to share 2. Storyphones available to listen to 3. Make characters from stories with clay We need a few more activities that would help with our theme but need to be accessible to all children from 3-4 years and to all abilities. When we have done simple stick puppets the parent…
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Any ideas on how we can stop a boy with Downs aged 36 months from biting? There is no pattern to it that we have identified and no particular 'victim' it just happens randomly. Nothing suggested by his portage worker seems to be helping
