becsltd Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 (edited) We recently had an inspection at our new nursery. We are a private nursery taking children from birth to pre school. We were given a recommendation from Ofsted regarding children's starting points related to learning and development and involving parents! We have a thorough and effective settling policy and procedures and we obtain a lot of information from parents regarding children's pastoral needs. As we take from birth there is obviously relevant information like times of milk and sleeps etc.... However, Ofsted said that we need to get written information from parents about where they think their children are in their learning and development. I am finding it very difficult to think of the kind of thing that parents would feel they could comment on. Does anybody have advice or has anybody been given a similar recommendation from Ofsted? Very enigmatic!!!! Edited April 18, 2010 by becsltd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pamgreen Posted April 18, 2010 Share Posted April 18, 2010 Hi if you look on the Leicestershire website and search for early assessment review, there is is really good information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becsltd Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 Thanks pamgreen. Will have a look on the Leicestershire website now. I would be really interested to hear about what other people do. It seems to be a hot topic for Ofsted currently with very little information around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Resource library link This is what I do. Mrs O liked it and it gives parents the idea that they'll be involved too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 I've attached our All About Me form, which parents complete, perferably before the child begins or within a few weeks. We updated it at the setting as the previous one didn't really ask what we wanted and was very tick-box ish which we didn't feel gave much to go from as didn't highlight children's real interests and needs I had help with it from the lovely people on here who suggested various ideas and links so a forum search for previous posts might help you too All_about_me_generic.docx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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