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yes, surely as the name implies, they are continuous. I suppose weekly additions for extensions to the provision would be recorded....

by weekly continuous provision i mean we have a focus in motivational spaces CP weekly sheet which has what enhanced resourses are added to continous provision linked into childs obsevations, learning objectives and child interests and then we have focused activity sheets also---woulnt it be great if we all had set proformas to work with approved by ofsted!! their is so much variation from authority to authourity and even between advisory teachers in the same authority!!!

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Hi all, we had a staff meeting the other day and we've decided to plan around the children whenever there is not a festival or event to cover. Last week we did winter as all the children were talking about what they had done in the snow etc. Next week we are doing all about me theme as a couple of children are moving or have just moved, also a few children have been very interested in peoples eye colour.

 

Would you mind looking at my planning please and telling me if it looks ok, what needs adding/taking away.

 

I have continuous provision sheets for everythign so really the plan is showing what we get fomr the activities that are planned - does that make sense and is that enough do you think?

 

Many Thanks in advance :o

Hi I thought your short term plan was great! Do you change it weekly? Thanks!!

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Thank you very much for the input/ideas xD

 

my continuous provision sheets aren't weekly, they are about the things we have out everyday....if that makes sense lol

 

 

It does make sense, comments were from other members, not you, although I didn't make that clear in my previous response. :o

 

Peggy

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ok, i've been working on the activity plans, what do you think of this? :o

 

is there anything that is wrong or needs adding do you think?

 

 

Nice layout, some good possible lines of development, maybe have a blank rectangle to record what learning the children derived from the activity that wasn't expected. ie: the childrens thinking during the acvtivity. (evidenced through action or language)

 

I still think some of the 'thoughts' are quite broad, ie: moving towards comparing animal prints to hand/foot prints. I think keeping a close focus on what the children originally showed interest in and seeing how their 'learning' evolves from the experience/resources, balanced with adults expectations of what could come from the activity shows planning for childrens interests, next steps and possible extensions. Maybe try not to go too broad on the original idea, hand prints = all about me (ie: not animals) xD There will be opportunities for looking at animals another time, I'm sure. :(

 

Peggy

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yes we do one each week, well we will do, I only designed this grid yesterday lol

 

 

I would be 'open' to change plans as children dictate, it may last a week, only last half a week or extend for a couple of weeks.

 

Peggy

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I agree evaluation on the back keeping it all together, but remember to record in individual learning journeys as well, ie: the evaluation is 'used' not just written and filed away. :o

 

Maybe have questions / prompts for your evaluation, why it worked, what didn't work, how well adults interacted or could have differently, possible extensions not possible at the time but could be re-visited, how children moved the activity into a different direction, responded to possible learning outcomes, Were there enough / too many resources, how to attract non participants (if at all), etc

 

Peggy

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Hi im new here so hope im on the right track, i think that your planning looks very managable and easy to follow, i think you just need to choose somthing thats works for you, as long as you can explain it if needed it should be fine.

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Hi

thanks for sharing....i think it looks really good. Im trying to move towards more child initiated planning but my school prefers planned topics.

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I've answered above :o

 

Thank you everyone for your comments, I've now edited it to include the additions to basic resources :)

 

 

hi i have just looked at your planning i am in a mixed reception year 1 and i feel all i do is fill in countless plannning sheets that dont mean anything i think yours is great so is to follow but everything there what we need thanks so much for sharing this dizzynic

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hi,

Not replied to anything before, but thanks for all the downloads. I'm just fascinated by all the different ways people plan. I think it doesn't matter how you do it as long as you and the staff understand it and know what you would like the children to achieve! Anyone who is continuously looking to improve their practice and planning must be a good practitionner anyway.

I can't help but wonder though, does anyone ever read the continuous provision sheets, mine took ages to do but I don't think anyone actually reads them because they are soo detailed! Anyone got any simplified ones?

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Congratulations on your first reply! Well mine are the ones on this thread, which I adapted from downloads from here some time ago. I agree a bit though - all that work and there aren't enough hours in the day to give them the usage they deserve. We do use them for planned observations, but not for a lot else at the moment - which is sad. But I do intend to look at how we can use them better in the future.

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