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Firstly let me apologise if this is a long post! I am a returning pre-school supervisor, I ran a unit 2 years ago and then went into nannying for a while and now I'm back to running a pre-school. When I left, we used the 'old' early years foundation, the 6 areas of learning were used but things were definately different then than they are now!!
The nursery I have joined currently has no pre-school, so I am in setting that up at the minute and planning is currently my biggest issue. The planning sheets the nursery use, I feel, are not appropriate. I would like the planning sheets to show daily activites, currently the nursery does not have daily planning, their sheet covers 3/4 weeks and as I said, I dont think that this is appropriate. I would be extremely grateful if anyone had any examples of planning sheets they could attach for me to get some ideas to draw from before I make up a sample sheet to show to the nursery manager.
Also the rountine the toddler unit use is along the lines of what the manager would like to see in pre-school, again I think its to extensive. Below is a brief example:
9.45 - 10.15 - Art activites
10.15 - 10.45 small world play
10.45 - 11.15 - construction play
Basically the room is split into 2halves, so they have art set up in one side, when they have done with that they move to the small world side whilst staff set up the art side again for a different activity. The nursery I was in previously encouraged 'free flow'- in that all activites planned for that day were set out and the children were free to flow from activity to activity - certain activites had an adult at the table and were adult lead and the children were tracked to a certain degree to ensure that they were meeting all the areas of learning. What are your experiances as to which of these to practices work best - the tight routine mentioned above or the 'free flow' option?
Sorry for the long post!! I look forward to getting to know you all via this board, you all seem a friendly bunch! I'm glad I stumbled across it and I'm sure you will save me tearing my hair out in the next few weeks!!
Sparky! x x
Edited by sparky40, 09 March 2010 - 09:49 PM.
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