Child-led Planning

AnonyMouse_11485 · 2010-07-12T13:54:36+0000

I recently put the following post in another thread and Sue suggested I start a new topic on this. Here's the post and Sue's response: QUOTE (emmajess @ Jul 5 2010, 21:00) I have a question, though. Next year I am moving from teaching my class of 20 to a position as EYFS leader in a 5 (5!!!!!! ) form entry primary school. I wonder if anyone has any comments or suggestions about how such a system might work in such a large setting with 5 teachers and 150 children? I'm wondering how much of a requirement there is, in terms of equality of opportunity, for the 5 classes to be doing broadly similar things. Or whether we should work as one huge group and if a couple of children have a sudden interest in space, to open it up to the 5 classes, and be really flexible about who works where, with real fluidity between the classes depending on children's shared interests. When I envisage that it seems unmanageable... Or at least daunting! Alternatively we could be completely separate, and keep the interests solely in our own classes. Perhap someone could describe for me what a middle ground might look like! Wondered if anyone had any thoughts? I think you have an ideal opportunity to offer 5 mini themes, each teacher developing something that their class is interested in and allowing some flexibility and movement for all children to access whatever is on offer regardless of their "home base" interests. You may want to think about offering different curricular opportunities in different areas of your provision so that not all classes need to offer the same resources in terms of continuous provision--if that makes sense. It will be hard work and to set up and get going but it will be worth while if you can make it work and you will need to have the majority of your staff behind you to succeed. What do people think / already do about child-led planning in a school with lots of reception classes? I love Sue's idea of the different classrooms being bases for different currciculum areas / provision areas and have been mulling this over in my mind for a while myself - does anyone have any experiences or opinions on this they could share, as i think it would be a huge thing to walk in to a new school and implement, so I want to think through the ins and outs carefully first. I don't think it could be introduced mid-year, (I could be wrong) so it would either need to be as soon as I start my new job (perhaps a bit dramatic - I feel i might need some sitting back and taking stock for a while first) or wait till next year, which would be frustrating. Any thoughts on either child-led planning in big schools, using classrooms as provision bases to be shared between all classes, or anything else about working in a school with a number of reception classes?

By AnonyMouse_11485
July 12, 2010 in Reception: Observation, Assessment and Planning

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