All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
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Hello We have a child that attends my setting 2 full consecutive days a week, each day is 6 1/2 hours long. The child in question refuses to eat or drink anything whilst in our care, I've spoken to mum who has no quarm with leaving the child in our care, however by the afternoon the child has low blood sugar and is quite destructive. Today the child bit me quite hard breaking the skin, last week he bit another child. Any advice?
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Parent Information Session
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I'm looking for activities and ideas to introduce the EYFS 2012 to my Pre-School Parents?! What am I trying to get across to them that is different; especially for 3-5's, Thanks
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Boys Dressing Up Clothes
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We put out a wizard outfit for this month - simple little cloak with a hat and wand. Unfortunately it has not been that easy to get the boys into the role model. They simply put the cloak on with the wand in their hand and start to attack everyone who comes near them getting everyone raised and running around and around the room like mad. This was bought from a very good supplier of early years products so I am going back to the drawing board and asking - what do you put out for your boys to dress up in that would be easy to get on and off without a lot of help needed. We have tried boilersuits in the past but got entangled in the legs and arms part. I think with the…
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Hi all - I work at a village pre-school and we have a child of (just turned) 3 who has very little speech, no clear words at all but noises and sounds that when in context we like to think are words. :1b She is clearly an intelligent child and can follow instructions (when she chooses to!), and respond to requests such as counting out a given number of items, colours, shapes, etc. Parents have taken her to speech and language therapist who says that there is no reason for speech delay and that she is just 'lazy'. I would really like to know how best to support her, and her family, is developing her further and don't feel that we're getting much support from an…
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Nursery Rhymes - How To Encourage A Child To Join In?
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We have a child who has been with us over a year now and it is like he is digging in his heels so we want to try and encourage him in participation at our nursery rhymes. He will quite openly say "I'm not doing that". We know from what his family is saying that he can recite all the rhymes at home but when it comes to our time he will not open his mouth or do the actions. His action is now making other children replicate this action so that we have children lying over the sofa doing nothing for 5 minutes while the others keenly participate. We have tried asking one of our other children who likes to fling and kick during this time (see other thread) to move away …
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Outdoor Games For When It Is Wet!
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We have a very small outdoor play area covered in safety matting and surrounded by a wooden fence on 2 sides and the wall of our building on the other. It is long and narrow on a slope. The past few days have been really wet and it has been a case of getting out having a run around and then before you know it the rain comes and we have to run back in again. Today it was a slightly longer time outside but to start and open the shed with toys etc would have taken so long and most of the children simply want to run around and inevitably accidents happen as they bang into each other. We want to extend this time of running around to do something constructive. I am thinkin…
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Attention Seeking Behaviour 1 2
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We are a small 12 child Playgroup running for 2 1/2 hours each day during term time and started back again on Monday past. We cater for 3 and 4 year olds so have had 8 returnees who now turn 4. One of the children has reverted back to his habits of last year which we know is simply attention seeking but again we want to nip it in the bud early to ensure we get past this problem. We cannot and I stress cannot leave children on their own in the outdoor area whilst we take all the rest inside. Mainly because the gate where parents come in is through the outdoor area - if the child is left out there and we open gate to parents he will leave the premises before mum arrives…
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We have noticed our parents pay no attention to their children's learning journey's or displays. They don't even come into the main room just drop the children off in the cloakroom and then go. We have decided to start having an open morning/afternoon every half term when parents are invited to stay and look through their child's learning journey, play with their child or talk to us about anything. Does anyone else do this? Would you be willing to share a letter you send to parents to invite them in? Thank-You :1b
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Playgroup Leader - Duties And Responsibilities
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I am a Playgroup Leader in NI and we run a small 12 places Playgroup with myself a Deputy and 2 volunteers from the local community for 2 1/2 hours Monday to Friday term time only. I do have a job description and specification but am revisiting these to meet with Management Committee to possibly define the role a bit more. I am therefore looking advice on an issue that I plan to talk to the Committee about: Obviously I am the "face" of the Playgroup and the buck stops with me! If I want to discuss issues that relate to children when is the most appropriate time to do it - what is your opinion - when the parents arrive with the child pulling them into an o…
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we have a very difficult cohort this year, with one autistic boy, and girl who has screaming tantrums but is improving, one boy who has mega tantrums, arching his back and flinging his head back, and also banging his head on the floor or door in temper, e,g, when he can't turn the tap off (he does not appear to have any issues with speech/understanding etc), and finally one boy who we were told may be autistic from nurture group, who is causing us the most problem.......... he doesn't really settle to anything, likes 1-1, loves doing 'jobs', likes tidying up, is ok at carpet time, apart from sometimes doing silly mumbly singing! but the rest of the time he is 'winding u…
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