Planning And Structure Of Week

AnonyMouse_390 · 2008-01-09T18:40:43+0000

We have a new deputy starting at our pre-school in 3 weeks time. She came in for a visit today and had a look at our planning etc. She is lovely and is coming from a day nursery and she obviously has high standards which is great. She has said that OFSTED will not be happy with how we run our weekly rota of toys. Currently we have the same toys out all week, so this week we have had Peak Road and Rail, car mats, garages etc, easels with chalks in our messy area, home corner in our role play area, and a colour matching game on our table. Obviously the normal book corner and mark making are out all the time. Craft this week is free painting. Our afternoon activities are different. Next week the main floor area will be farm, role play area will be vets etc etc, you get the idea. We have 5 different rotas for toys. Of course the children are free to ask us for something they would like, but being in a rented hall things are mostly stored away and they do not have completely free access. We sorted that partly last year by having 2 large units that are all labelled up in the role play and main room area that the children can use. Now, we tend to have children coming 2 mornings a week, funded children usually do 2 full days and an extra afternoon or morning. Our argument is that it is ok to have the toys our like this as most children don't see them every day. It would be a logistical nightmare having to have a different set of activities each day, plus then we would have to rota them to be on a different day each week so that all the chldren would see them! What do other settings do? Our new deputy is coming from a nursery where the chldren come every day so obviously it makes more sense to change toys more often in a week. We have always run in this way and have had no mention of it from past OFSTED's or advisors. My other question is how many plans do you do a week? We were told that 3 or 4 planned activities was plenty a week by our county advisor. We have continuous provision plans in place and we also have play plans, so there is a play plan for other general activities such as sand, floor play, homecorner, vets etc. These give the general curriculum areas they cover and key questions and ways of using the area for staff to follow. We also have game plans and how to adapt games for abitilities. So in this weeks planning there are 5 structured plans, play plans for other areas, and game plans. However our new deputy said that we should have at least 10 'proper' plans. We are due to have our OFSTED in the next 3 months and my poor mum is getting so worked up about it. I don't work at pre-school but being a teacher I advise them and spent all christmas doing all the planning, plus updated the operational plan, SEF, and any policies. I am able to go in fairly often as I work part time so I see the day to day running and can't see a problem. Do you think that OFSTED will be unhappy with how we do things? Someone please reassure me!

By AnonyMouse_390
January 9, 2008 in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues

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