blondie
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Everything posted by blondie
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could you try on ofsted site?
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and also stop looking at empty containers wondering what you can use them for.
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That is absolutely beautiful and well deserved. xx
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Girl says "Did you hear the thunder last night?" "I did." "It was even louder than your voice." (please note I don't shout)
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Little boy tells me "I got a bite on me." "Oh dear, what happened?" "A Dorito bit me." "Dorito? Oh you mean a mosquito." 🤣🤣
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thank you - it is so very hard to choose only ten. As a Pre-school how do you work this into your story telling and song time please?
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Looking into having ten core books and rhymes that the children will know inside out and back to front by time they leave us. Does anyone else do this, if so what are your top ten books and rhymes? How do you work this into your story telling etc.,
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bless you both - it has been a very hard year and I think it is all starting to catch up on all of us !! Hopefully the weekend has given you a bit of you time, take care. xx
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Thank you, We usually order through Hampshire County Supplies but they are no longer selling any powder or liquid paints. I have looked on this site and they only have leaf green. I wonder if it is something that all County Supplies will do in the future?
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why is there such a shortage of powder paints? Cannot get any anywhere - unless you want black or purple!!
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thank you - just looked and seems they only have black and one other colour.
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TTS all sold out.
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These are all sold out x
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We are needing to buy some powder paints but are unable to get any anywhere. Does anyone have a supplier we could use please?
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sounds ideal!! We had rain all day and quite chilly too. Coat's soaked through and just realised my wellies leak too. 😫
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Only just started here so not done any of this - at the moment they do one obs per week per child (each keyperson has 6-8 key children) but there is sooooo much in it. To me there is too much, I think if you are looking at a next step of something like turn taking / sharing then that should be the focus of the obs but they then add other things like recognising numbers, shapes, saying number names etc., as they say that is next step for that area so obs gets longer and longer. I really think they are making the work for themselves the way they work. They have one step for each area as I said eg PSE - MR, SC, MFB and CL - LA, U, S and PH - MH, HSC so you can imagine what it's like and they try to cover all these over the half term !! How would you change this? x
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Thank you Cait - I have just started at this setting as a deputy and am finding that staff seem to be constantly snapping photos and writing notes on children. I think they are doing too much but don't want to rock the boat as they say but at the same time they are also complaining about how much time it is taking them to do obs (get time to do these at home which obviously isn't enough) They are putting lots of next steps (one for each area eg PSE - one for MR, SC and MFB ) so are putting the pressure on themselves, the manager isn't very hands on so I would like to relieve the pressure and the constant snapping of photos etc., so they spend quality time with the children rather than always thinking about getting a next step done - hope that makes sense?
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How many obs do you do / expect for each child over a six week term? We have been having lots of discussions over the last few weeks and want to sort before new preschool year. And how do you decide what they will be etc., ? Any support on this would be appreciated as new setting seem to be going mad on obs.
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so very true.
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some of ours that have just returned seem to have lost all their language skills and still in nappies even though parents have had ages to sort this out.
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I was offered one on Isle of Wight which is a ferry ride away for me ⛴️ - so that was a no! I guess when they look it isn't far from Southampton as the crow flies 😆 Then offered one local to me - only 5 miles away which I had Saturday.
