You were all so helpful to me before and I’m really hoping to pick your brains again so thank you so much in advance.
DD has just turned 3 and is showing lots of aptitude. She only attends nursery one day a week but we are looking to increase this now she is 3. However, her local nursery is a play-school which is a chaotic rabble and doesn’t offer any form of academic stimulation. At first, this was ok as our main priority was for her to stay local and make local friends but could this environment be damaging to her development as her nursery hours increase?
Between September and December we did not receive a single piece of artwork or anything produced by dd. On top of this, no effort is put in to her EYFS reports. The wording has been almost identical for all four reports in all sections.
For maths for example, according to the EYFS she has remained at the exact same level as when she first joined having just turned two. This means she is now currently assessed at being below her age. By way of context, DD is secure with size and shape, can count to and recognise numbers 1-100 (reciting or counting objects), do 1 more and 1 less and knows her number bonds to 10 (thanks Numberblocks!) Her key worker told us how all of the Auntie’s had her reciting 1-10 in 5 languages (a party trick she learnt off of Bounce Patrol!) and although dd can be stubborn, with an awareness of a ‘talent’ like this it is hard to see how they’ve spent even 1 minute over the last year ‘assessing’ her. Again, this isn’t the main reason why she is at nursery but if it is going to be the ONLY feedback we receive all term it could at least be accurate.
So, in short, we aren’t receiving any artwork and the EYFS is completed with no effort whatsoever. But...she has made friends there? Does this change things?
There is another decidedly average local nursery so we we have signed her up to a morning there on a trial basis to see if she likes it and we’ll contact her current nursery to try to get them to try a little harder as she’ll continue there in January for the other day. Will two nurseries be ok (she’s used to a variety of baby groups) or is this a stressful move?
What do we do? Please help!!
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OutnumberedDad · 22/12/2018 01:31
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