All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Hello We are very lucky to of been donated a Hitachi Starboard We have had it fitted but I'm wondering if anyone can recommend interactive program's to use on it - I've been looking online and most program's I find seem to be for ks2....which is not very helpful. Anyone use these and can recommend I'd appreciate it.
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Hi just had this through from teaching agency: Info for EYPs.pdf
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Referring suspected neglect
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Hi, I work in a privately run nursery and a few if the staff have had concerns about one of the little girls, she has been collected late several times left at the nursery until 7pm, she also often comes in wearing the same clothes several days in a row, including the same pants. I noticed when changing her today that she has thrush. I have introduced a concern book for staff to log concerns and her parents have been spoke to several times about hygiene. To which they reply she likes to dress her self. The nursery is in an affluent area and we don't see many neglect cases. I was wondering what any one thinks about at what stage a referral would be needed? T…
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EYPs May have to retrain? 1 2
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Having just read this article in Nursery World I wondered if there were any thoughts amongst the community on the impact on staff if EYPs are expected to retrain to gain a new qualification? Would you welcome this as an EYP? if so why? Would you be disappointed? Will there be enough funding put forward in order to train all current EYPs including those that are still training? If you are a manager are you worried that this will this mean an exodus of highly qualified staff from the sector and into teaching? have a read: http://www.nurserywo...seryWorldUpdate JT
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Childminder Agencies:
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do you really want this? http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/1169665/Why-introducing-childminder-agencies/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH I don't !!! I am capable of running my own business. I want control of who I have in my setting - we ALL know that we need to consider the dynamics of all the children and our families, we need to click with clients. I can set and collect my own fees and so on. I am SELF EMPLOYED and quite happy to be so. I resent the implication that you will not be quality if not in the agency. Where will you access training, how much will it cost you to BE in the agency or to be independtly inspected? Do you want to be collectively graded or recogni…
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we have just started to offer lunch hours at our pack away preschool, my question is....do we offer the children their lunch boxes to eat from or do we serve them there sandwiches and then crisps ect on plates? some of the children come into school with so much food in the bags that there is no way they could help themselves to it! one of our staff members thinks that we should let them help themselves to what ever they want to eat in what ever order they want it...I can imagine some of the parents would not be too keen on this idea! I have one or two that can't feed themselves properly and they are almost 3! the mess they make with cheese dippers is horrendous and banana…
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Gun/sword Play - Do You Allow Children To Make A Model Of A Sword?
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One of our little boys came up to me today and said "can you help me make a sword". Of course I didn't think about it and showed him how to cut out a piece of card to represent a sword. I then encouraged him to decorate it. By that stage another boy had also become involved in the making of a sword for himself. My Deputy lit on me at the end of the session for allowing this to happen because we should not promote offensive weapon behaviour in Playgroup. It got me thinking that perhaps I shouldn't have done this but then if I am following a child's interests and they are not actually swinging the sword at others is there any harm in it. What do we do with the situati…
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Hi We are trying to develop our outdoor play area. We currently have the usual ride on toys, slide, balls, basketball hoop. What do your children enjoy doing most outside? What could you not do without outside? Thanks
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Talking Tables
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I have found a little guidance online from 'Fleur ...' regarding implementing Talking Tables (but would love more). Does anyone do this regularly and if so, could you give some advise as to what works well and what doesn't, and how you actually go about implementing/planning for the sessions Thanks
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Characteristics of learning
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Hey, I was wondering, i am meant to be creating a display at our setting to show the characteristics of learning to the parents. Does anyone know where I could order like a poster version of it from? Thank you for any help x
