Mouseketeer
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Progress Check at Two
Mouseketeer replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
Well it’s a Tapestry group, though there was an FSF group that Inge (I think it was) started eons ago 🤔 -
Progress Check at Two
Mouseketeer replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
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Progress Check at Two
Mouseketeer replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
I feel the same about ‘concerns’ but not sure what says it in a more parent friendly way…supported/no support? Action/no action? But if we change it then it won’t tie up with Tapestry print outs anyway. -
Progress Check at Two
Mouseketeer replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
I’ve never seen an EYA version, is that a buy into? We find when we raise a ‘health’ concern with the HV it’s always passed back to us to deal with, very little partnership working there 😞 -
Progress Check at Two
Mouseketeer replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
It is tricky because if there is a ‘concern’ you don’t want to sugar coat it as the point of the 2 year check is to raise potential send issues 🤔 -
Progress Check at Two
Mouseketeer replied to Stargrower's topic in Practice and Provision: General issues
Hi Stargrower, it does doesn’t it? I think all the questions go in the fb group now. I’ve changed ours by dropping aspects and the age bands/EDS (just the 3 prime areas) and adding concerns/no concerns to each area, we had already told our parents we would changing assessments to concerns/no concerns as Tapestry but we had a couple of not too happy parents because we’d recorded as ‘concern’ in an area so may need to look at the term we use again but I’m not sure what, I expect some will take offence what ever we use (additional support/not on track/intervention 🤷♀️,) I don’t think they quite understood the difference between E,D,S so didn’t seem as stark. -
Thankfully the nearest IKEA is over an hour away!
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If anyone is looking for child friendly graphics to go with curriculum goals Mycutegraphics.com has hundreds of lovely free ones 🙂
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I did look 🙈 they must be affiliated to Ikea, great stickers for tubs and tops 👍
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Nooooooo I’ve just signed up to the Perry's creation 🙈
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I painted the home corner cooker rings black….I can take a photo tomorrow 🤣 🤣
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Fantastic Louby on the grant front 👏 my LA have been less than helpful through it all tbh and then send emails patting themselves on the back for the great job they’re doing from the safety of home 😠 Have EYA included anything to do with witchcraft in their updated safeguarding policy? I haven’t done that yet either. Thanks for the updated flow chart zig-zag 😊
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You’ve achieved lots 👏 I’ve never bought into the EYA policies, it irks me that we get nothing for their membership as it is and then have to pay extra for the policies, a bit like my refusal to pay extra for a garden bin! Thank you for the reminder about the no vaping in sign. RIP Jill Murphy …..Peace at last is on my half done core book list 😔
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Pretty depressing feeling when the coolmilk email came today knowing that when it comes next week I won’t just be able to ignore it and will have to tell them how much milk I need for the following week 😢 The TDL is going ok, the curriculum/pedagogy overview ✔️ new starting point sheets for parents done ✔️(given up waiting to see if WTEW is being updated) registers ✔️ (not printed), sorting/tidying in hand but a way to go (I won’t need to worry about other opinions as no one will offer to help anyway). This link might be of use if still needing an outbreak management plan, no idea why if Slough PHE can manage one the rest of them can’t 🤷♀️ I haven’t done one yet, or updated my Covid risk assessment (mainly because I can’t get my head around children coming when a family member could be knowingly at home with Covid) and I haven’t updated any policies ….maybe the TDL isn’t going as ok as I thought 🤨 https://thelink.slough.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-01/2020.12.18_A4ActionCard_Earlyyearssettings_0.pdf Good luck with the chauffeuring froglet, sending any patience I can muster your way, though it isn’t much these days 🙄
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Wow Cait, how lovely, she looks stunning in both 👍
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And just when you think you’re on top of it all ….photos done, online journal accounts set up, key groups sorted, name labels made, registers done someone will phone and ask if they can change their days or someone who wanted a Jan start would now like September instead and you have to start over again 🙈
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These Fridays are coming around too quickly 😢
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Who saw ‘the van man’ on undercover boss last night? 🙄 (the boss man did pull him up on his comments)
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That’s strange, I had an email a couple of days ago asking me to submit my July claim, I thought I’d already done it but did it again anyway 🤔 we also have very little wall/ board space, floor to ceiling windows seemed a good idea at the time 🤨
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It looks pretty good, I can see it’s a huge french fancy and lemon ones are my favs!
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I just decided if I was creating this bloody curriculum I had to get on with it rather than worrying about it and move on to the other things on my TDL that I wasn't able to focus on, I'm not sure if I should now create an age related pathway to the goals or just go with 'if that's my goal I'd expect them to be achieving that by then' 🤷♂️ good luck with it 🤞
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Wellllllll I think I’ve created our curriculum, a bit more wordy than I’d first intended, it ended up on 2 pages instead of one but does include our pedagogy too, I still don’t really know if it was needed or not, but if nothing else it will be a simple crib sheet of what goes on in our setting for staff. I haven’t read anything about WTEW yet, we used it for parents as a starting point, my intention is to create a starting points sheet using the DM checkpoints, one for the 2 yr olds as that’s when most start with us and then a 3/4 years one for late joiners and include some ‘specific’ questions on that one. I am not re-buying it, hardly anything changed that has any relevance to warrant it being so much longer, I’ve scribbled the main changes and stuck stick it notes on to make finding different areas easier ….it was driving me nuts trying to find the area I wanted 🤪
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…and when they wanted posters displayed for parents they’d send them….all that coloured ink 🙈 At least we have a grasp of ‘past & present’ when it comes to that part of our curriculums 🤣
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That was in the oldern days 🤣 It is a shame the chat rooms don’t exist anymore 😞
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Hi, I have seen adverts about this but hadn’t worked out how to find out the 3 words for wherever you are, I’ll look for the app 👍
