anabel82 Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Hi can any one out there answer my questions please. In my nursery we spend more time doing paper work - Mainly planning and observation than spending time with the children. We are a small setting 34 children 3 rooms. As we are expecting Ofsted any time, a discussion at staff meeting a from a EYP new member of staff brought up a "great idea" of another planning sheet for outdoors... Great more paperwork! Her point was that it is an "EYFS/Ofsted requirement" that we need to cover DAILY the 7 areas of learning outdoors as well as indoors... Is it correct? Where can I find this information as I could not find it anywhere? Do I need to cover daily the 7 areas of learning outdoors? and have it written in planning sheets? At the moment we have one planning sheet per room covering the 7 areas of learning - one activity per area of learning per day - of those 7 activities 1 must to be outdoors per room per day. What makes 3 different planned activities "outdoors" per day. We take the children together outside 2 times a day am/pm in our own not massive but just right garden. Thanks all... any thoughts to share would be very great full!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlettangel Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 I have never heard this! We are a one room nursery with free flow outdoor area and we mark on the planning which activities are outdoors. We have a colour code, so green dot for outdoors but blue dot alongside it would mean child initiated outdoors. Like a red and green dot would mean outdoor focused activity. Sorry I can't help but in my opinion that sounds like planning for planning s sake! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunnyday Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Crikey anabel82 - if that's true - I am sunk! :blink: I am confident that our continuous provision (indoors) + use of an outdoor area (not able to free-flow) covers all seven areas - but absolutely no way Jose am I going to start writing (complicated) planning sheets for this :blink: Just a little tip (if you don't mind) when someone tells me something with 'great authority' - I say "well thank you for telling me, where can I find that written down" - this delivered with the sweetest of smiles :1b If the staff member can tell you where to find this - please come back and share - I will have some planning to do! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest griffclan Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 I agree with everyone else's comments I don't think you need this extra planning sheet. Like Sunnyday we have CP planning for inside and outside that covers all 7 areas...this is the basics that are always out/accessible, this is reviewed each half term and adjusted if necessary to meet children's needs/stage of dev. We then do a weekly plan which shows any enhancements to CP noting if outside and we plan weekly focused/adult led activities too, making sure one is an outside activity to provide a balance. We don't have free flow either so plan to go out during morning and afternoon sessions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargrower Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Nope, never heard this either. You seem to be doing a lot of planning too. One activity per area of learning per day. Does that mean you're planning 35 activities a week? Not a criticism, it just seems a lot! :1b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anabel82 Posted May 6, 2013 Author Share Posted May 6, 2013 Thanks for the lovely advice Sunnyday - It was my gut reaction, but sadly this came from a new but well qualified member of staff and I felt bad to question her perspective... Thank you all for the replies :1b 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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