Guest Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 hi everyone.... my head has been asking what we do in nursery as an initial assessment of where the children are starting at, OFSTED want to see progression throughthe whole foundation stage. I have put some thing in place and as part of my performance management will be looking into this area in more detail.....any ideas from others would be great!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beau Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Hi emmorg and welcome to the forum. I will move this topic into the nursery part of the forum for you where hopefully you will get some useful replies. There may have been previous discussions about this so have a scout around whilst you're waiting for people to respond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Hi emmorg, We have an initial child profile, based on the eyfs levels below the age of the child starting preschool and with a few additions of our own which we find useful such as whether they can drink out of an open cup etc. If you would like to see this to give you an idea, let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wolfie Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hi emmorg and welcome to the forum! I too am looking at this at the moment and would be very interested to hear about what you have laready put in place - is it from birth or from 3 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyMaz Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) Hi emmorg and welcome to the Forum. I don't even understand the question let alone the answer so I'm really glad there are really clever people on here who can help you! Maz Edited October 13, 2008 by HappyMaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hali Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 hello and welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wolfie Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Hi emmorg and welcome to the Forum. I don't even understand the question let alone the answer so I'm really glad there are really clever people on here who can help you! Maz Yes you do...baselining your children... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyMaz Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Yes you do...baselining your children... Is that where you attach them to a parachute and throw them off a tall building and see if they can negotiate all the obstacles on the way and then run away from the policemen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wolfie Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Is that where you attach them to a parachute and throw them off a tall building and see if they can negotiate all the obstacles on the way and then run away from the policemen? See, you knew all along.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Hi emmorg and welcome to the forum! I too am looking at this at the moment and would be very interested to hear about what you have laready put in place - is it from birth or from 3 years? no im focusing on 3-5 but sure some will be at a lower level ill attatch what i have done already... its a termly over view just to see which children are average, above or below so we can track progress made. I tried but my upload failed!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wolfie Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 I tried but my upload failed!!!! OOOH, pleeaassee try again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Well here's ours, it's our initial chat with parents and forms our baseline for each of the children - I hope it's some use to you Initial_Child_Profile.doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wolfie Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Thanks for that Cait - very useful! Do you just use it when chatting to parents or do you use it during the first few weeks when observing the child in your setting as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Thanks for that Cait - very useful! Do you just use it when chatting to parents or do you use it during the first few weeks when observing the child in your setting as well? Well kinda both - if that makes sense. Sometimes parents just want to drop and run, and actually hanging about might make their child be a bit unsettled so on these occasions we complete it over a few weeks chatting before and after sessions. Sometimes, when we know in advance that a child is going to be a 'drop and run' I go to their house, or they come in to Preschool and we fill it in then. On one or two occasions we have completed it totally ourselves when parents just wouldn't - or on one occasion when the replies were obviously nonsense 'oh yeah, she's doing blah blah blah' (as my daughter would say 'how about NO') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bobby Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 (edited) Hi Cait, my head wants me to use the eyps as an initial assessment for nursery too. Would love to see what you have done with yours. At moment am trying to break the statements down but seems an unendingtask. Would be so grateful to see yours. Thank you very much Edited October 16, 2008 by Beau To remove email address - please use private messaging on the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Well here's ours, it's our initial chat with parents and forms our baseline for each of the children - I hope it's some use to you thanks so much x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigger Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Hi it must be a HEAD thing because our head or rather (our sip) is also after hard data. The eyeprofile can now cover a 2 year period but what about the children who are not yet achieving in Nursery the first point of the profile? How are you measuring the children to ensure you have value added. We have a variety of information collated from parents and pre school and our own initial assessments but not any one document that we can track from nursery to the end of the reception year. Is there a way to track the children that isn't going to involve a variety of different bits of paper? Sharon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wolfie Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 (edited) Is there a way to track the children that isn't going to involve a variety of different bits of paper? We're going to look into something called the Essex/Target Tracker, initially developed in Essex (there's a surprise!) and now available to buy into nationwide - it's a computer programme, so you need time to input the data, but it apparently is a very effective tracking system and will chuck out all sorts of data, charts, etc. When I find out more, I'll share! Edited October 17, 2008 by Wolfie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 OOOH, pleeaassee try again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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