cms - can anyone summarise oap?

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I am finding it all a bit complicated, and I know you all do it a different way, but could you summarise how you do your obs/assessment/planning so I know if I'm on the right track? Is it weekly / monthly / termly? do you do 'proper' obs or just constant ones like the diary? or both? I am thinking that if you can summarise it then it's not as complex as i think it might be.... thanks anyway if you have the time!

I do lots of little obs in my daily diary sheets, which i use a duplicate book for. I then do some notes on them and stick pictures with them in each child's file. About once a week i note down next steps on these pages. If something major happens i will do a specific obs on it. Each term i do a summative assessment on each child, where i pull all the info together to see if they are meeting their expected milestones. I know i do more than some and less than others. Hope this helps.

Maybe once a month/every six weeks I'll do an OAP page - say if mindee enjoyed using mark making materials, would say would provide crayons, paper, chalk and chalkboard, waterpens, etc.

I don't do anything about how babies/toddlers are meeting their expected milestones HSMM?

Thought that all happens when they turn 5 and the main carer has to do a 69 points page.

Just to add that I do a daily diary for each of my 4 mindees and mark an orange cross against anything they have done/said to warrant an observation.

I think I'm doing too much daily diary really (a full A4 page for each) and sit up till late at night usually, by the time I've seen to my own three, dinner, etc.

I've got so many folders and one is about to leave soon so all this work will have been for nothing really - because Ofsted are months behind with their inspections!

There is a whole section on development in eyfs. Also the attainment at age 5 starts from birth, when they first learn to move. Of course we might get a whole new structure soon, but i'm hoping it will be similar.