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Exporting Reports in Word
Mouseketeer replied to CLG's topic in Weavers Future Development Suggestions
Another vote her for being able to open as a word doc (though I will check out the above to see if they can be converted), I’d like the Summative assessments as word doc so I can fit a cohort on one sheet and not have a couple drop onto a new page that I have to cut off and sellotape to the bottom of page one 🤣 -
There is definitely a leaning to ‘being best friends’ rather than parent/child relationships with some of ours :-(
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Does anyone else wonder if the past years of free choice, free flow, free anything else you fancy has finally caught up with us?
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I hear you Blondie…it’s driving me nuts, I keep asking mine to cut down on what they’re doing , I even split key children up so they could focus on less a week to try and cut the work load but they just now do excessive amounts on those few a week, I really hope I can get them to adjust their mind set for September 🤨
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HELP!
Mouseketeer replied to zigzag's topic in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
Sounds like a plan, sometimes it’s the adults that need teaching in our place they will let a group create a massive mess inside then move outside leaving the next adult in to clear it away with the help of children who didn’t get it all out to start with ☹️ -
HELP!
Mouseketeer replied to zigzag's topic in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
It isn’t just you zigzag, we have a right unruly bunch at the moment and feel like we’re failing to get on top of it, they don’t treat anything with respect (I have never known so many broken resources), they wind each other up endlessly and use lots of of silly language, no doubt picked up from older siblings or the rubbish they’re allowed to watch on tv but then the younger/immature ones in the cohort hang on it and think it’s funny to keep repeating it, if anyone has ideas on putting a stop to that I’d love to hear them (the ignoring it strategy is definitely not working) 🥺 -
I hope all you half termers have managed some down time …I’ve pottered in the garden, read a book, met friends for lunch and had 2nd vaccine, am now feeling a tad guilty that I’ve given little thought to work other than plant watering (well that’s not strictly true, I have thought about it, just not acted on it 🙈) hoping the last half term is good to you all 🤞
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Fab! added to the list 👍
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Crumbs Panda I’d forgotten all about Peter, the manager previous to me used to sing this quite a lot ...may try it tomorrow. Row, Row, Row your boat 🚣♀️ (Working together, animals, speeds, actions, rhyming, making up their own) Gently/stream/crocodile/scream Quickly/river/polar bear/shiver slowly on the lake/long snake/quake Bobbing on the sea/bumble bee/freeze
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I was already convinced I’d been given a placebo anyway when practically everyone I knew was some kind of unwell and I didn’t even have an arm ache 🤔
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Is anyone any closer to making a decision on whether they’ll follow DM or B25 (or something else altogether) from Sept? I just keep swinging between the two, I like the JG short videos and think these will be great for sharing with staff and discussing the reasoning behinds a more informal way of assessing (not statements > concerns/no concerns) but prefer the assessment side/ranges of B25 and that aspects are included in all ranges, so thinking about mixing them up. Is there any news on when/If B25 will be available on Tapestry? And will it have aspect flags and ranges as well as area flags please? I think I’m asking will it be possible to show a child for example is: Literacy/Reading/Expected range 4 🤔
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Me too louby 🥺 is the kissing/hugging thing really necessary yet? I wonder if there will be any changes to Monday’s plans with the rise in the Indian variant? Has anyone been invited to take part in the antibody test? I did it last night and being 8 weeks post 1st vaccine it showed no antibodies present ......I know it says it’s not 100% accurate but now wishing I hasn’t done it 🙁
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Please can it be the end of term soon forget Friday 🤦♀️ hope the week gets better Froglet 🙏
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Mouseketeer replied to CarolineAS's topic in Weavers Future Development Suggestions
Thanks Ben, I do appreciate that but it must just be me seeing it as un-logical if it hasn’t been raised by any of the other thousands of users ...put it down to age 🙈 -
Even later but Happy Birthday 🥳
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Mouseketeer replied to CarolineAS's topic in Weavers Future Development Suggestions
Ummmmm I’m not convinced 🤣 to my mind if I’ve set a reflection to available to all staff and ready for discussion it has been actioned/submitted/added (well by me anyway 😛) -
Recipes for slime and anything messy and fun!
Mouseketeer replied to Greenfinch's topic in Teaching and Learning
Sainsbury’s (other supermarkets are available) do a nice chn bath foam, £2 a tin but you get a lot from it, smells lovely and can mould with it :-) I’ve never found a slime recipe that is any good tbh, though chia seeds make a nice kind of slime texture. -
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Mouseketeer replied to CarolineAS's topic in Weavers Future Development Suggestions
I really like the reflection tool and use it for sharing things with staff like group meeting notes, CPD, adding links I want them to see But why was it developed visually to show if it’s been made available to staff in the opposite format to whether an observation has been added e.g when an ob has the solid line on left of thumbnail (orange) it hasn’t been made available (added) but the reflection with the solid (blue) line, left of thumbnail has been made available (added)....my brain doesn’t cope with this at all well 🤯 -
You could always eliminate that bit if you come up with your own curriculum 👍
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I’ve watched a number of JG short videos on the matter and really like them and as they are in short bites they will be easy to share with staff for discussion at a meeting, I am leaning toward DM, I think B25 may well become a ticking exercise again for staff who see everything as needing to be in black & white. I also like the idea in theory of coming up with my own because I still think SSM is important and don’t want it forgotten, but then wonder how it might fit with Tapestry if we personalise things, I’m confused as to why they both have aspects yet they seem to be being ignored in any assessments going forward e.g I may have a ‘concern’ in UTW but it won’t necessarily be the whole area just one of the aspects...oh I don’t know 🤷♀️
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It is useful for comparing both, I’ve read too many FB posts on the subject now, it’s nice to discuss what we all have planned (or don’t yet) here 🙂
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This author is very pro B25.
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Could you both have a look and tell us which/how to use either/both...I think I’m in a fog with it all and the new framework + inspection handbook to take on board ...it seems bloody unfair that this has all been dumped on us now after the year we’ve had, I’d really have liked to have the time & the inclination to pull the best from both and create my own curriculum but I really don’t have either these days 🥺
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Nor me Louby...I personally think DM is far too loose and yes I’ve read all the arguments put forward about not thinking of it as age bands but it’s exactly that! 0-3/3-4 are age bands, it’s too big to just say a child is ‘expected’ in it when they could be a 3 year old who is only just walking and I know my professional judgement tells me there is obviously a concern there but then you question what’s the point in the DM document at all? just use your judgement (but not sure how NQ staff will manage with nothing to reference) and I don’t like that the aspects are not given more prominence (I really liked that gross & fine were being split, that never worked as one). But I don’t really like B25 either as that has too many age bands/ranges making it too restrictive, they both needed putting in a bag and shaking up ....though we’d probably just get back to what we already have ......there’s clearly no pleasing some people 🙈🤪
