Cait

Ha ha - thankyou

D'OH!

LADIES PLEASE - it's all about sharing - I must have my share (as Lady Catherine de Bourg says in Pride & Prejudice)

Hahahahaha

Yes, it was the best one I came across. We've reduced it a bit - mainly the colour aspects to keep costs down. I did a copy and paste into a word document and took out the text I didn't want and made it really workable.

Parents are good at completing their sheets too

Ok, as long as I know my remit, I can work with that!

I would have thought that was an excellent idea - keeps it all together.

Have a look at the Southampton one, which we have adapted for our own use. We found it a very useful starting point, and have it as the first two elements of the Learning Journey for each child. The last part are the pages containing the Aspects, which we use to annotate mini observations against each criteria.

Learning stories in southampton

Ooh - is that our Goal, Hali?

yes we do one each week, well we will do, I only designed this grid yesterday lol

Lovely new atavar!

absolutely! silly isn't it!?!?!

A concentrated solution of a few packets of jelly - a little bit of water and sling it in the microwave to dissolve it and mix it in

It's always interesting to see someone else's plans isn't it!

These look really good again mrsbat.

Nice and concise and simple

and ours - lots of wonderful chat round the table - it's tempting to set up a tape recorder!

I'm a bit confused by some comments about weekly continuous provision planning sheets, I see CP planning as continuous, and not determined on a weekly basis?

 

Peggy

yes, surely as the name implies, they are continuous. I suppose weekly additions for extensions to the provision would be recorded....

Hi Thankyou so much for these. Being inspected alongside the school- (we're on the same premise) tommorrow. Even though we were only inspected in June and got Good. What joy but some notice at least.

If i've not already done so - welcome to the forum Minnie

I believe the person in charge has to have one, so if your chairperson is the nominated person in charge, then I would think that this will be the case

Sorry Cait can I just ask do children leave your setting and start in reception the next week or is there a long holiday in between? I ask because children who arrive in my reception class have mainly attended our FSU but after a six week break in the summer many have regressed greatly and don't always recognise their names when they were before the break.

The other alternative is that schools/teachers can be stuck in a "well I've always done it this way" attitude.

Yes they do drop back after the six week break. But can still remember their names - many have recognised them for a long time - some have been with us for two and half years so we see this regression too.

I guess all I'm saying is that it would be nice to have the children's knowledge appreciated. Parent's say it too and often come back to me in September to have a moan.

That's right, it stated that the contract was for the duration of the recognised training qualification only.

When they enter reception more children arrive with at least one third of the class made up of children straight from home, private settings, childminders or from overseas with no english.They have varying experiences. So for the needs of these children we do go back to a picture with a name on cloakroom pegs and spend a few weeks assessing what the children have arrived with.It's not putting the nursery children back its addressing the needs of the other children in a fair way.

I agree with this, and if this were the case with the village school it wouldn't be such a kick in the teeth. The children that go there have been to us first, with the very odd exception. All can write their own name and recognise it in print - and most, if not all of the other children's names too. If they bothered to visit us, or look at the learning journeys - or even just ask, they would know this.

Sorry - ranting a bit

Works a treat ..apart from when its first thing monday morning and you forget the number

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There's some here, with links to other sites

maths stuff

I have trouble changing my avatar too sometimes.

How about just plain noodles!

My children enjoy eating with chopsticks (have you got a copy of Cleversticks?) and I buy hula hoops and wotsits or whatever for them to eat. Great incentive to 'have a go'.

They eat pieces of satsuma and things and the very adventurous eat sultanas too with them. So how about just making a fruit salad with the kind of fruits Chinese people would have?

Yes, it could be the depth. Whenever I am doing 3 packets or more I reduce the quantity of water considerably. With as many as 15 packets i'd be tempted to go with water for only 11 or 12 - after all, you can always add more water if it sets harder than you want, and re-set it