Stargrower
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Me too!
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We don't charge for anything except meals (breakfast, cooked lunch, cooked tea). Parents supply nappies, we supply everything else. We don't charge for snacks.
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I'm glad you had such a positive experience Louby Lou! Could I ask what paperwork relating to staff she looked at. Did she read supervision records and talk about targets for staff etc?
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We used to have a kind of flat box that attached to the wall. It was made specifically for big books and had two holes in the top that you hooked onto hooks on the wall. Have you tried Googling "big book storage"?
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Commission an independent review of childcare funding and affordability The petition, which has more than 112,000 signatures, states: “We have the second most expensive childcare system in the world. A full time place costs, on average, £14,000 per year, making it completely unaffordable for many families. Parents are forced to leave their jobs or work fewer hours, which has a negative impact on the economy and on child poverty.” In its response to the petition, the Government said: “The Government is not currently planning a review of the childcare system. Support is available to help with childcare costs, and the Government monitors the sustainability of childcare providers.” Well that was short and to the point wasn't it! -
Progress Check at Two
Stargrower replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
Oh goodness, I didn't even realise there was one!! Is that where everyone's gone? 😆 -
Progress Check at Two
Stargrower replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
Thanks everyone. I'm going to look at ours today/tomorrow (probably tomorrow, ha ha!) so all your replies are helpful. I have to say, although I love Tapestry and we have used it from the start, I'm worried about the term "concerns". I think it could make it sound like we are worried about a child's development, when it could just be that we are keeping an eye, supporting etc. I'll have a look at the EYA Progress Check, thank you. -
Hello everyone Has anyone made any changes/amendments to your Two Year Check because of the revised EYFS? Or are you carrying on as you were? All seems very quiet on the forum lately, I hope everyone is ok 😊
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ofsted-eif-inspections-and-the-eyfs/registered-early-years-providers
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The whole thing makes me feel so weary and overwhelmed (not caused by this thread!) It's a shame we're all feeling our way and not sure which way to turn. We are open all year round, so I don't know if I'll have a solution by September. Plus Ofsted came our way over four years ago...😬
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But hasn't the learning and development part of the EYFS always been our curriculum? In the old days, we had the pink folder which was called Curriculum Guidance to the Foundation Stage with Birth to Three added later. Then it became the Early Years Foundation Stage with the six areas of learning, then it was changed to the seven areas of learning plus the Characteristics of Effective Learning. Development Matters/Early Years Outcomes has been about (and non-statutory) for a while as support documents. I think of all of this as our curriculum and it's down to us to decide what we think the learning priorities are for our children and how we teach them.
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I think we are already doing this and have been for years. If we have high expectations of our children and what they are capable of and we differentiate for children who learn at different rates then our curriculum is ambitious. It is carefully planned, no matter what 'style' of planning we use - we all think carefully about what we want children to learn and how we're going to teach it. And of course, it is sequenced. We know all the processes and skills that children need to practice before they are able to start writing (for example) All that sensory play as babies, leading on to manipulating malleable materials with hands, then tools, experiencing mark-making on a big scale, shoulder pivoting, before refining it down to smaller movements, tinkering with smaller resources to develop those fine motor skills, all that emergent writing etc etc. We do all this! I don't think it was Julian Grenier's intention for us all to write (or re-write?) a new curriculum. But maybe I'm wrong?
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They way I understood it (and this maybe/probably is completely wrong) is that we don't need to devise our own curriculum. The curriculum is everything we do with children, everything they learn, everything we teach them, no matter which way you plan (or don't plan at all). I was looking at it from OUR children's point of view. What do we want the children at OUR setting to learn? What are THEIR needs? Do we need an extra focus on speech and language? What will out post-pandemic thoughts be on PSED? Will our children have extra needs in this area? We live and work in a small, rural market town and have a mix of well off and deprived families. But if we were an inner city nursery with lots of families living in high rise flats and many different languages spoken, our curriculum would be different to meet the needs of those children. We will be using Development Matters at least to begin with as I feel the transition will be more straight forward.
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Thank you so much! Yes, that's it! I couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd seen it but it was obviously in BT5M. Thanks again.
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Hopefully someone will come along who knows! I've tried "googling" but I just got lots of results about children and ballroom dancing! 🤪
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Hello I saw a quote a little while ago about how children's learning and development is more like dancing round a ballroom than... I can't remember the quote (as you can see) and I don't know where it's from. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thank you!
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Thank you for replying. Yes safeguarding records definitely need to be kept. I think I'm going to get rid of old registers though.
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I'm having a massive sort out and am debating what to do with paperwork. The information sheet I have from the Early Years Alliance says... Children's records, registers, medication records, accident records - a reasonable time after children have left the provision (e.g. until after the next Ofsted inspection is a requirement or - until the child reaches 21 (24 for CP records) is a recommendation If I go with 'requirement', I can (securely) get rid of mountains of paper! What do you do?
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Transition paperwork
Stargrower replied to AliceinWonderland's topic in Early Years Setting Management
I know, it is a lot! Some years we've had more than twelve. We're in a small, rural market town so have children from quite a wide area. Unusually, quite a lot of the villages still have primary schools, so our children go here, there and everywhere! -
Transition paperwork
Stargrower replied to AliceinWonderland's topic in Early Years Setting Management
I completely agree with Zigzag. Any transition information is to help the child to settle and have a good first experience at school, and to help the school make this happen. We do all the likes/dislikes/friends/behaviour/personality stuff verbally. Pre-Covid, this was a visit from the reception teachers. Last year it was phone calls or Zoom. This year I think will be a bit of both. We are in Suffolk and send children to about 12 different primary schools! -
I've managed to log on now too!
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I can't log on to the EYA portal at all. I've emailed them too...
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Definitely not us! I can't wait to have parents back in the nursery. It's one of the hardest changes we've made. We're all different I guess! 😄
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Hello all I am finding more and more when recruiting, that companies and even other settings are refusing to provide references. They will only confirm someone's dates of employment. Is this standard practice these days? How do I go about getting a proper reference and if I can't, how does it reflect our Safer Recruitment policy? Thanks
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I think you can only get them if you're in a maintained nursery or school. PVI settings have been left out...again.
