by Rebecca Platt
27. July 2009 12:27
As part of my early years professional status training I have been looking at how we set up our activities for the children to enjoy and how we lay out our rooms so the children can get the most out of them – inside as well as out.
I have been out and about looking at different nurseries and researching this and have come up with some changes I would really like to implement with the two nurseries and this formed the basis of what I trained the team on on the 17th July.
Here’s what we will be doing:
- Each room will “zone” their room, so they will have distinct areas e.g. a construction area where all the construction toys will be. These will all be different for each of the age ranges reflecting their development.
- Each room will start to run their own planning meeting where the next 6 weeks will be discussed.
- We are moving away from weekly topics. Instead we will spend a week focusing on each area of the Early Years Foundation Stage, e.g. Communication, Language and Literacy and plan an activity for a small group based on the children’s individual development needs.
- We will send you out an email every 6 weeks describing the different areas of learning we will be focusing on each week and giving some suggestions of things you can try at home to help support your child as well as still things you can bring in
- We will also be changing the look and feel of the learning journals, putting less photos and art work in there, instead focusing more on special and “first time seen” things the children have either done, made or drawn
Please tell me what you think of these ideas and particularly what you think of moving away from weekly emails
