Guest Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Do you have topics for your half term? Or do you take direction soley from what the children are interested in, if any one can describe how they manage their planning balance I would be very grateful i'm new to foundation and a little confused.
HappyMaz Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Welcome to the Forum mrspepperpot! You've found just the right place to find out everything you need to know but were afraid to ask about planning! There have been lots of discussions about planning on here in the past few weeks (in fact sometimes it seems as if its all we talk about!). Try doing a forum search (click on the button on the top right of your screen and follow the instructions) and have a good look around. That will help you get a flavour of the sorts of things people are doing. I'm in pre-school so I'm not much help to you - but there will be others along shortly with lots to say! Maz
Guest tinkerbell Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 welcome mrspepperpot I teach r/yr1 and do have a topic for each half term.
Guest Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 hi, i teach reception and i do have broad topics at the moment (not sure if that is ok or not really but i still do!) and we start off the term talking with the children about what they know already/want to learn and go from there. We dont always end up on the same topic at the end of term because we follow the children's ideas but if we are stick its good to have the topic to fall back on! Hope thats of some help x
wellerkaren Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Hi and welcome I work in a day nursery and we use themes, each theme last two months these are based around the childrens interest and we also have mini themes if the children have any interests outside the theme.xxx
Guest Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 We have a topic title but go very much from the children's interests. I then mark down which ELGs are covered.
Guest Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Thankyou for all your replies, thats helped in that it seems its 'ok' to have a topic as long as you follow the children's interests, I have done a search and read some other similar threads, which has helped, thanks again
JacquieL Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 A warm welcome to the Forum and I'm so glad you are already finding it useful. Prepare to become addicted. In fact we will soon be setting up FSF Anonymous for those of us who spend hours each day on here
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