Parents Questionnaire

[Guest terrydoo73]

I know this is a huge ask but would anyone be willing to share with me a parents questionnaire they would give out at the beginning of each year or when a new child starts at the setting so that you can follow a child's interests more clearly. We had an Early Years Specialist with us yesterday who asked the question "how do you know what your children's interests are? do you send out a form to the parents or what?" We of course looked stumped. We do have an All About Me form but it doesn't go into specifics rather focuses on their family details, what food allergies they may have, if immunisations are up to date, whether fully toilet trained etc but there is nothing on there about liking animals specifically whatever, enjoys Dora, would prefer to play on own or enjoys water/painting/sand etc etc. Just something simple that I could hand out to parents and get a quick turn around would be brilliant otherwise I will have to sit down and write something which could be not relevant in any way shape or form! Thank you!

[Guest SamG]

I found these on my county councils website. As we are not up and running yet I'm not sure how useful they will be,but they may be of some use.

My_Current_Interests_and_Achievements1.doc

Experiences_and_Opportunities_to_Support_my_Development_and_Learning1.doc

[Sox]

There are some great starter ideas in the resources section here!

[Conker]

To be completed by the parents before the child starts.doc

 

I hope this has attached, first time posting!

I dont know if this will be any good, its what I send out when a child first starts.

[Sox]

To be completed by the parents before the child starts.doc

 

I hope this has attached, first time posting!

I dont know if this will be any good, its what I send out when a child first starts.

 

Welcome Conker I hope u enjoy the forum as much as me. Ur questionnaire looks gud!

[klc106]

We send this out with our registration forms and we also send them out at the start of each half term and they are then used and kept in the child's learning journey

 

Child questionnaire.docx

[Conker]

Thanks sox, thats kind of you :1b

[finleysmaid]

We do an "in the beginning " sheet (the start of their learning story!!)

 

In the beginning.docx

[hopeytg]

I 'borrowed' this one of this site a while ago

unique child doc for new starters.doc

[Guest]

welcome conker - be warned; it's addictive!!

[Cait]

I 'borrowed' this one of this site a while ago

 

Aha, yes that's mine - nice to see it still popping up!

[redjayne]

Am just bumping this up so another member can find it !

[Cait]

It's my understanding that you don't need to 'bump' things as they continue to show in 'unread since last visit', but I could be wrong!

[Guest terrydoo73]

Thank you everyone for your replies. Have decided to go with the simple child questionnaire as it is succint and just what we need at the moment - not that I don't think the others are good but I think for our setting the child questionnaire is more appropriate. We have sent out so much paperwork over the past week with little response that I think I might keep this to our Parents Meeting and ask them to complete before leave - of course I will have a duplicate of all the other non returned forms for individual parents to complete - makes my job doubly hard as I am doubling being a Leader and an administrator!!