Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Does the Sef form change in September for everybody? I work in a Day nursery and was just about to submit mine, so wanted to see if i should wait till the changes???? Help!!! Quote
sunnyday Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Think so yes!!! If you are ready to submit I would carry on though........it says somewhere in the bumph that you won't be penalised for doing so.........whoopee they are too kind! Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Think so yes!!! If you are ready to submit I would carry on though........it says somewhere in the bumph that you won't be penalised for doing so.........whoopee they are too kind! Well...when i say ready (oops) i mean ive got lots of notes and ideas of what to do, just gotta type it all up!!! Quote
sunnyday Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Well...when i say ready (oops) i mean ive got lots of notes and ideas of what to do, just gotta type it all up!!! Ahhhh...well...in that case....think I might just wait until you have seen the new format.......I am in a similar postion - sort of half done but the half that is done is all beautifully typed up!!! Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Ahhhh...well...in that case....think I might just wait until you have seen the new format.......I am in a similar postion - sort of half done but the half that is done is all beautifully typed up!!! Well hopefully it wont be to different ...wish i had half typed up Just never enough time in the day!!! Have you got any idea when the new format is out? Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 (edited) I've held off on mine, too! Letter arrived from Ofsted today saying "new" SEF "is shorter and easier to use" and that "there are improvements to the technology that make it easier to use online" (yippee!) Just have to wait for it to go live on their website - perhaps I'll do it in October halfterm then... Nona Edited September 1, 2009 by Guest Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Me again...just looked at the website and it says the new form is for state maintained schools?? Now i'm confused even more?? Quote
sunnyday Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 Me again...just looked at the website and it says the new form is for state maintained schools?? Now i'm confused even more?? no...honestly....in July Ofsted News it says that Early Years SEF is changing....... Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 (edited) NEW SEF here is the link for the new SEF samfrostie Edited September 1, 2009 by samfrostie Quote
Guest Posted September 1, 2009 Posted September 1, 2009 NEW SEF here is the link for the new SEF samfrostie Thanks guys...panic over!!! Quote
Guest Posted September 2, 2009 Posted September 2, 2009 Ok ive just tried to download a blank copy of the sef form and there is not one for Day nurseries....only nursery schools, maintained schools etc. Which one do i use?? I can feel a call to the big O looming!!! Quote
sunnyday Posted September 2, 2009 Posted September 2, 2009 Ok ive just tried to download a blank copy of the sef form and there is not one for Day nurseries....only nursery schools, maintained schools etc.Which one do i use?? I can feel a call to the big O looming!!! Wouldn't the one for 'Nursery Schools' be the right one for Day Nursery? Check out a completed one on the 'Exemplar SEF' thread - sorry don't know how to do a link (note to self - must master that!) So are you following my 'thinking' - that will show you what is needed......... Quote
Guest Posted September 3, 2009 Posted September 3, 2009 There's a Early Years SEF on the Ofsted website if you put it in the search engine it is there just checked. Its the revised one, this is the one you will need to use if you are a day nursery not the nursery school sef Hope this helps Quote
Guest Posted September 3, 2009 Posted September 3, 2009 There's a Early Years SEF on the Ofsted website if you put it in the search engine it is there just checked. Its the revised one, this is the one you will need to use if you are a day nursery not the nursery school sef Hope this helps Thank you so much Abbey....it def helps! Cant quite believe they have changed it so soon...thanks again! Quote
Guest Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 Oh b******s I am literally just finished doing the old one. I'm going to send it in anyway, we can always use the new one next time round. Does anyone know how often we are meant to update it? Yearly or more often than that? Quote
Buttercup Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 very fed up can i rate that article as unsatifatory. i spent all easter doing form. typed it up and sent it off thinking thats it all i need to do is look at it now an then to update. they they tell me they have an easier one. whatever next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote
anju Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 have just scrawled all over my old one (submitted in march 09) and will be very cross if I can't just update it - has much changed? does anyone know?? thanks, A Quote
sunnyday Posted September 11, 2009 Posted September 11, 2009 Oh b******s I am literally just finished doing the old one. I'm going to send it in anyway, we can always use the new one next time round. Does anyone know how often we are meant to update it? Yearly or more often than that? Language Timothy!!! Hmmm ... don't know if there is a set time for when we are meant to update....it is meant to be sort of 'ongoing' isn't it - and of course, we will eb expected to have 'actioned' what we have noted for 'improvement'.........I haven't put anything that I can't achieve with the minimum of effort! Quote
Guest Posted September 14, 2009 Posted September 14, 2009 Spoke to Ofsted before submitting it - they said that there are only a couple of changes and it's just making the form a bit shorter. I sent in the old version anyway, by the good old fashioned snail mail! Quote
sunnyday Posted September 15, 2009 Posted September 15, 2009 Spoke to Ofsted before submitting it - they said that there are only a couple of changes and it's just making the form a bit shorter. I sent in the old version anyway, by the good old fashioned snail mail! Yay.........I really think that's what I will do too..........that would be when I've finished it of course Quote
Guest Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 Hi - I have just been doing our SEF on the up-dated form - I think I have lost the plot becaused in answer to their questions I seem to be writing pages and pages - I certainly won't fit into the pre-determined boxes - anyway done th new one yet ? Dot Quote
sunnyday Posted September 16, 2009 Posted September 16, 2009 Hi - I have just been doing our SEF on the up-dated form - I think I have lost the plot becaused in answer to their questions I seem to be writing pages and pages - I certainly won't fit into the pre-determined boxes - anyway done th new one yet ? Dot Ohhhhh - how 'different' is it Dot? Quote
Guest Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 Ohhhhh - how 'different' is it Dot? Hi ladies I have followed this discussion as I have tried to update our SEF this evening but the website tells me OFSTED is currently offline!! My first attempt did login but my SEF wasn't there... After spending nearly 60 hours on it last April with staff parents and committee I am now mortified to find it is not there. At the moment the hard copy is locked away at my setting ( I hope ! as that is my only proof that we had submitted it) and I am working from home at the moment and will not rest tonight until I can check OFSTED website again!!! Has anybody else experienced this kind of trauma! a disappearing SEF!???? Ginge 99 Quote
sunnyday Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 Crikey!!! Try not to worry too much - I'm sure it will still be there........ Fingers crossed Sunnyday Quote
Guest Posted September 17, 2009 Posted September 17, 2009 Hi I cannot find where to get into the sef, on the Ofsted home site I have typed in sef in search box but still cannot find anywhere to log my gateway pass word in or the sef page Can anyone give me advice? Thank you Quote
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