Emmawill Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 HI all question.... we are in the process of revamping our planning and have done away with our medium term plan can I just ask how o people evidence development matters for odted purposes. I am asking this as 2 years ago we were told by oftsed to compile evidence in our entrance area showing what areas of development we wil cover each week .This was fine as on our medium term plan we selected 12 DM's and chose one each week to focus on based on our termly theme. This DM was written on the top of our weekly planning sheet. We are alos amending the weekly sheet and are now not preplanning a whole eek and are doing on a day to day basis dependant on childrens interests. My only worry as we are due an ofsted inpsection (due to change of ownership) is how do I show what DM's have been covered? I am so confused by it all and anready to throw in the towel as waking up in the middle o fthe night for a wee armed with pen and paper trying to make sense of it all. Any comments would be greatly appreciated ideas would also be VERY! welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2011 Share Posted March 2, 2011 We don't pre-plan which DM will be covered in a given session/week/activity, but record on individual sheets for the children which they have shown evidence of from our observations of them in free play and adult led activities. From these we then plan what opportunities we will offer them in the future so they can demonstrate ability in further DMs. These aren't always consecutive though so their assessment sheet might have DMs "ticked off" (for want of a better term!) dotted across it with gaps showing we haven't seen evidence of that particular DM yet. I hope you can make sense of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emmawill Posted March 3, 2011 Author Share Posted March 3, 2011 thanks, thats what I was looking for as I was worried that we should be evidencing an earea of learning each week. As a matter of interest , have the dreaded O been in and were they ok with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumperrabbit Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 We work axactly the same as Holly, except we do have an adult focus for our older children every day which is linked to a particular Dev Matters. Don't know if Ofsted will be happy as we are still waiting for 'the visit' overdue since November Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 3, 2011 Share Posted March 3, 2011 We are also waiting since last November for them so I can't comment on that side of it. However I would argue the case that this way of working is more in keeping with the unique child and planning activities which address individual needs. And i would kick up a stink if they said otherwise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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