kb124 Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Has anyone got any ideas of how to involve children in the evalaution of your provision i.e find out what they like/ do not like about your groups? I have thought about asking children to take photos and the happy face/ sad face signs but none of these really hit the spot and give the information needed! Any suggestions much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsue Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 As part of FDEY we have been using The Mosaic Approach (Clark and Moss) I have found elkements of it very useful in getting the child's views We have had the children take us on a tour of the setting, using cameras to take their pics of the likes and dislikes, also they very cleverly showed us their awarness of their boundaries eg one child while on a tour took a photo of the kitchen tell me 'we can walk through to get to the garden when the door is open but can't go in when the door is shur, we can't play in there!' (to access our outside we do go through the kitchen area which is screen off for safely but he clearly undersood it was an access not a play area) Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2011 Share Posted May 17, 2011 Hiya we have a little book ( which we then add to their learning journey book ) which has questions the children discuss with their keyworker - it was adapted from the ofsted excellence website - if you go onto ofsted site you will be able to see list of questions for children < Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudgecat Posted July 21, 2011 Share Posted July 21, 2011 We also use the Ofsted questions for children, and each 1/2 term ask a group of children together to answer the questions. Some of the answers we get are quite entertaining but have been really useful too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Leading-to-excellence The above is a link to the questions referred to in the above posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/Ofsted-home/Leading-to-excellence The above is a link to the questions referred to in the above posts. Can't access this link Deb - any other ideas, I think this would be really useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suebear Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Hi, I too have searched Ofsted but can't find this document anymore Does anyone have another link to the questions or a clue to its secret hideout? Cheers Suebear x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Not sure if this is any help - I'm in maintained nursery and was given the 'Questionnaire for Children' to do with my nursery group. Because the Qs were aimed at primary children I adapted them and came up with this: Do you like coming to nursery? What do you learn? What do you do if you need help? Do you do things by yourself? Do other children keep the nursery rules? Do you feel safe at nursery? Do you learn about keeping healthy? Do you enjoy going to assembly? (we are a church school) I have the full list of 18 Qs which I can post if anyone wants them; but, as I say, they are not particularly pre-school child friendly and needed to be re-worded. The original Qs are for use in primary schools - there may well have been a separate one for nursery, but I never had time to look for one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Hope this helps x Early_years_leading_to_excellence_1_.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Thanks Moo20, a very interesting read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suebear Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Thank you all x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Many thanks -very useful link and will incorporate questions this year, like the mosaic approach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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