All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Am intending to set up a jungle/habitat in a Tuff spot next week. I have three boys who are obsessed with the wild animals and always get them out no matter what. After observing them this week they do not seem to have any structured kind of play with them, they transport them to every activity and just thump them around or use them as weapons :angry: I wondered if the play may become more imaginative and structured if they have an exciting habitat. I have got some fake grass as a base and we were wondering about living plants, does anybody know what would be the best to use that is not dangerous? Any other ideas would be really welcomed :1b
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Hi We are having a nightmare with playdough! It goes everywhere and we are getting in trouble from the owners of the village hall for the mess on the carpet in the corridor where children have got it on their shoes. It goes all over the floor even if we tell the children to try and keep it on the table!! I would like to put it out more often as the children love it but we get moaned at a lot by the owners every time we do! Does anyone else have this problem? and what do you do?
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We are making soup tomorrow, now in the past when we have made this at harvest time not a huge amount of children have eaten it. We are making it tomorrow to be part of our 'S' sound activites along with sandwiches and sausage roll snakes. Has anyone got a tried and tested recipe that the children may actually want to try? :1b
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Publicity for Playgroup
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As you know we are a small Community based Playgroup in NI, not dependent on government funding but rather the community to raise necessary financial support, registered for 12 children at present. The Management Committee have ambitious plans to move to an old school in our village and we have been told that we could be registered for 24. Now I don't think the Committee have really thought the thing through because they asked me if there was a need for this number in our area so I have to prove to them there is!! Already for September 2013 I have 9 preschoolers registered and I am trying if possible to steer the Playgroup towards working with majority preschoolers and…
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Just after some views on this please. After christmas, we noticed that one or two children were bringing a sweet or two ( usually a chocolate coin or santa) left over from the festivities. This has now slightly snowballed, with more children bringing things and the original two actually bringing small pots of sweets as an integral part of their lunch, today it was gummy bears.This is in addition to a chocolate bar etc. Now, I am not averse to a bit of something sweet myself on occasion BUT this is beginning to prove problematic, some of those children, if we don't watch like hawks, will down the sweets before anything else is opened. We tried removing them from the bo…
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ECERS-R, ICERS-R and ECERS-E
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Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and so apologise if I haven't chosen the right section of the forum to post this in!! I'm a little overwhelmed! Anyway I am interested in completing an audit of my setting using ECERS-R, ITERS-R and ECERS-E. I have looked on their website and it does provide information about it all but not the scales themselves. Does anyone know if you can download the scales online or if you have to purchase the books for the scales? Thank you!
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For any of you who read my previous post about managers pay, I am just off to a AGM where I will find out if I do get my pay rise. Fingers crossed.
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What activities do you use to encourage the tripod grip? Need some inspiration. :huh:
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As a Learning and Development Adviser for my Local Authority tasked with the development of the staff working in Early Years I am looking for new ways to deliver training to the sector to ensure we can continue to deliver quality training whilst coping with an ever decreasing budget. One solution we have sourced in other sectors we provide a service for is eLearning. This has been introduced with high levels of success and customer satisfaction to our internal staff and saved huge amounts of money which allowed to focus the budgets on other training. I am now speaking with our Early Years staff about the possibility of moving some of the training we do around poli…
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Hi I know this has probably been asked a lot before- sorry. Do you use the children's interests to find a topic to follow each week? I am asking as we have a few girls who are really into dressing up as princesses and the boys are into being pirates. We also have one who is in the home corner nearly all session and some who don't seem interested in anything! Would you plan a whole week of activities on say pirates? or would you have different activities going on during the same week? such as making princess tiaras and pirate treasure maps? I find it hard to think which topic to plan for and follow all week which is what my deputy thinks we should do. S…
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