Practice and Provision: General issues
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Our village preschool is run by the nursery and, during school holidays, becomes holiday club for primary aged children too. One mother has queried the suitability of the activities for her 3 year old son as they are pretty much all aimed at keeping the older children entertained. Their response was to tell her that the preschool isn't running through the holidays so her son is accessing care, not education at those times and they don't have any responsibility to offer age appropriate activities or interact with him on those days. Their role is simply supervision. I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on this. To my knowledge, this approach is not taken…
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Mobile Cookery Centre
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Hello there. We use a mobile cookery unit within our early years setting, which allows the children to bake in their rooms. Whilst we have risk assessed the use of this etc, we now need to put a policy in place around its use and I just wondered whether anyone has written or come across such a thing before? Thanks
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Hello My preschool currently accepts children from 2y5. What would I need to do to accept 2 year olds?
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Hi! We've been given £5000 to spend on our outdoor area. Could everyone remind me of good companies to get good quality equipment from. Thanks Green Hippo x
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The road safety charity BRAKE has an awareness day planned for Wednesday 27th September. There are lots of resources available for you to download from their website. The charity organisers say: "Beep Beep! Days are a great opportunity for early year's educators to introduce children to road safety basics, with fun activities and resources provided by Brake. Everyone that registers will receive a free e-resource pack filled with fun activities, posters and certificates." You can register for the Beep Beep! day here: BRAKE
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Hi all, Just wondering what everyone does with summatives and 'all about me' forms for children that leave your settings? Do you keep them on file, send them home with the parents or shred them?? We've been keeping them on file but the file is getting massive! Thanks
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Anyone willing to share the contents page of their policy folder please? I'm currently trying to review/up all of ours. We use the PSLA - but I don't have the code to update . Not sure whether it might be easier to just buy the book again or what do others use? Wondering how other people sort/arrange their folders. xx
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Bedford Borough Council have posted this today in their LA area - I thought others might like to read it too! "A fantastic article by Alistair where he discusses 'topics'; http://www.firstdisc...ng-early-years/"
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Help please! opening a new school based nursery in September and have been told that we will only have two staff for two of the days to manage 26 children per session. I know this just fits the ratios as one will be a teacher and the other an EYP but what to do? One adult inside / one outside. What happens when a child needs changing? Gets in a mess? Need to do a group but no one to supervise the rest? etc. How do the rest of you get buy with just two adults. Also not happy about lone changing of children. Which procedures are you following. Thanks all. Rosie
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Impact of childcare students
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Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could help with my topic question. I'm currently doing some independent research just for fun and wanted to know the impact level 2 and 3 childcare students have on your settings? I currently teach level 2 and 3 BTEC after years of working in nurseries and schools. My own memories of having students are mixed ones- sometimes they were great and you could give them tasks to do, others were not so great and needed a lot of support. Being on the other side now, I hear stories from my learners how they were photocopying all day or washing up all day. Now it's easy for them to say this and as I don't go out to assess them (others staff do…
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