Guest Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 Does anyone know where I can get a suitable foundation stage profile which I can map progress along for children in our daycare room who are three plus . Perhaps there is one on this fantistic site somewhere? Thanks
belle06 Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 Sound learning do a folder that contains all profile books and paperwork not sure what this is like have only had a brief glance at it
alis2son Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 Have you tried striding through the stepping stones? its not cheap but along with a file you get a disk with the same contents so you can print off what you need and also alter it for your specifications. Its by focus education also from amazon. You can see some pics on amazon too.
Guest Wolfie Posted February 25, 2007 Posted February 25, 2007 I've also been on the lookout for the same thing but haven't had any success so far and am thinking that it's probably best to devise my own! I've looked at both the Sound Learning scheme and Striding through the Stepping Stones and am not keen on either of them! The Striding thorugh the Steepiong Stones one in particular is so big...so much paperwork!! I'm not sure whereabouts in the country you are - it might be worth checking to see if your authority's early years advisors are recommending any particular approach or scheme or are even maybe devising one of their own? More and more authorities seem to be coming up with their own schemes now. Two books that I've found particularly helpful as background reading to devising your own scheme are by Vicky Hutchin - "Tracking Significant Achievement in the Early Years" and "Observing and Assessing for the Foundation Stage Profile". I got them both from Amazon. Let me know if you find the sort of thing you're after anywhere!
Rea Posted February 26, 2007 Posted February 26, 2007 Like wolfie says, I'd check with your EY people. I've heard they are piloting a nursery profile here in Birmingham, maybe other places are too. In the meantime I'll ask at work, they were locked in the office for ages a couple of weeks ago and it was something to do with assesments !
Rea Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 Birmingham are piloting the nursery profile. I dont know exactly where but it's in the community day nursery I'm at. I've managed a brief look, it's based almost entirely on the FS folder with the stepping stones. The booklet didnt say anything about evidence from what I could see but I'll have a more indepth read tomorrow.
Guest Wolfie Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 I'd be very interested to hear more at some stage Rea!
JacquieL Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 It might be wortthwile looking at this document which is for 3-5 year olds. http://wgfl.digitalbrain.com/wgfl/web/foun...n/elg/index.htm
Inge Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 this is the one our EY dept use, it has been around for a few years now so may need a bit of updating, we use our own but very similar to this Inge foundation_stage_profile.doc
Guest Wolfie Posted March 1, 2007 Posted March 1, 2007 That's also very useful - thank you very much!
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