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Cultivating Collaborative Relationships: 5 Strategies for Parent Engag…
by Alicia Wilkins
Alicia Wilkins writes about working collaboratively with parents - from the perspective of being a parent herself, and having been an early years educator.
Podcast: Creating a culture of mindfulness and wellbeing in your setting or sch…
Jules chats with education consultant in nurturing teachers and children, Joanne Lo. They discuss how to develop mindfulness in a learning community, and techniques that educators can start using right now in the day to day of their classrooms.
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Using Chat GPT to write observations
I agree. I think AI-written observations will lose that personal touch and families will stop valuing them. If a parent knows the observation has been written by AI, they'll lose respect for the educators, who are supposed to be literate and able to write their own observations, in my view. (I am also aware that staff with dyslexia or specific difficulties need support, of course). I am concerned that every member of staff's observations will all sound exactly the same. When we created learning journals for our nursery children, each member of staff had a particular voice/communication style which really gave the journals character.- 1
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Using Chat GPT to write observations
I'm looking for advice with regard to one of my younger practitioners using ChatGPT to help write observations. Her observations look amazing and the other staff members feel that it is unfair because they don't want to use assistance to write their observations but they are no longer confident in what they are writing -
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nursery Closure Days / Bank Holidays
I am currently transitioning to using Tapestry's Management System. I would like to know how Tapestry treats any closures entered when invoices are generated. Is it deducted or ignored? We charge for all bank holidays and holiday absences, our fees are worked out over 52 weeks of the year. If Tapestry deducts a Bank Holiday or a week where a chid is absent, for example, then presumably we would not enter any bank holidays or child absences? The latter is concerning as we are required to monitor child absences, so entering a legitimate child holiday is as important as a child not attending for some other reason, e.g. temperature / gone to see granny! -
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communication to parents
Good Afternoon, Is there a place where we can update parents what is happening in the setting e.g. dates for your diary and a place to send out news letters -
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Policy approval
We have so many policies and we are currently taking them to our Trustee Board Meetings annually for re-approval. Do you all take every policy to your Trustees/Governors etc for approval and signature or just the statutory ones?
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