So, the hunt for a preschool has begun, and my brain is totally addled already. All the settings seem eager to impress with displays of spider diagrams and PowerPoint slides showing how well they apply the EYFS and how much planning and reporting they do, and how impressed OFSTED are with their enormous papertrail.
I just want to leave DS somewhere where he will be safe and happy, where he will learn to socialise with adults and children, where he will learn when it's time to be quiet and listen and when it's fine to storm about like a mad thing, how to share and turn take and have a sense of community before going onto big school. How and did all this form filling and box ticking come to take over all the good stuff? Do other parents really care about it (the fact that some babies go on the waiting list when they are still in the womb, suggests they do).
The world of work is full of target setting, appraisals, planning and documentation. It just feels too soon to be slapping those measurements onto a 3 year old.
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Am I a sloppy mother for not giving a stuff about EYFS and OFSTED nonsense?
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nancerama · 27/04/2013 12:27
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