Nursery observation for a 2 year old 'working towards'. What does that mean? Behind?

[sharingzoe]

My 2 years and 1 month old goes to nursery 2 days a week. He's been in his new room since the beginning of January only.

I got his observation through today, and it's all 'working towards' with a couple of 'on tracks'.

He doesn't really speak at nursery, and doesn't like touching wet paint but apart from that I don't know why he wouldn't be 'on track' for everything. He can count to two and he puts two works together often/has around 50/75 words that he uses. His elder brother had slightly delayed speech so we've got some experience with speech therapy etc. I haven't been at all worried about my second until receiving this observation.

Seems a bit harsh to be honest.

Can someone have a read and a sense check?

Isn’t the criteria based on where they should be when they go to school? I would ask for clarification on that so you know if he is actually behind or not.

Erm .because you have to??

He is just 2. He has another 11 months to 'hit' the 2yr old targets. Children do not develop exactly as the stages are set and as a pp stated it could simply be that staff have not witnessed him doing things especially if he's shy, it doesn't mean he CANT do them, just they haven't seen it.

Oh no… I don’t think there’s ever been a case that someone wasn’t admitted to a fancy university because of their assessment at 2 😉

These are literally observations they’ve made just like you you have (you agree on the finger paint!). You know it has nothing to do with his potential.

Thonk of it as him being with a family member that says. “Huh he doesn’t really fancy finger paints but but he sure loves banging pots together”

Honestly at 2 isn’t he (and all the other kids) working towards learning just about everything?

There aren't any '2 year old targets' that I'm aware of. The 'Development Matters' document from the Department for Education has a band of 'Birth to 3'.

OP the link is here. I expect your DS is doing most of the things in the birth to 3 band but remember he's going to develop a whole lot in the next 10/11 months.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/988004/Development_Matters.pdf

There aren't any '2 year old targets' that I'm aware of. The 'Development Matters' document from the Department for Education has a band of 'Birth to 3'.OP the link is here. I expect your DS is doing most of the things in the birth to 3 band but remember he's going to develop a whole lot in the next 10/11 months.https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/988004/DevelopmentMatters.pdff*

This makes the observation all make sense. Thank you.

Parents should probably have this shown to them!

It is a requirement for early years workers - be it nursery or childminder to do a 2 year check for each child in their care. The idea being that it coincides with the HV check. There is no other compulsory observations as part of the EYFS now until they reach the end of reception. That's why I was asking the OP if it was to feed into that.

He's a baby - I would challenge their bullshit talk.

Better to just ignore it.