blondie Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 we have been chosen to take in two year olds from disadvantaged backgrounds for which we will receive funding. can anyone give me any advise or ideas ? we have today been advised we will have a two year old from the end of the year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mps09 Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 Hi, We've taken 2 year olds for a while now - this was a commercial reason really - a rival pre-school started taking children from 2y4m while we were 2y 6m and we found children were going there instead because they could go earlier! Anyway.... My only bit of advice really beyond the obvious, "will take longer to settle, may need parental support for longer" is don't buy too many specific resources for younger children - we did - and found they didn't really use them they just enjoy the same things the older ones do. Hope that helps. Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted September 20, 2009 Share Posted September 20, 2009 You may need a more generous ratio at first than the 1:4 too, whilst they settle, so space them out if you can. That's generalising quite a lot, I know. We have some who race in and don't look back whilst Mum is left tearfully at the door saying 'oh, bye then!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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