SOME ADVICE ON PLANNING PLEASE (C.M.S) THANKS

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I childmind seven children. Two under school age and five school age.

I would like to improve my planning.

Do you plan overall for all the children or do you plan for each child?

For example one child may need to develop the use of scissors would i just include that in my fine motor skill planning or for that child only.

Not sure where to begin and how to set it out. Comments most welcomed.

I plan for each child my sheet is then kept in their learning journey I can email you some ideas if you want

If you do observations on a child you can finish each observation sheet with a next steps section and use this information in your next weeks planning.
You do need to do planning for each age group. So I would do two planning sheets. or three if one of the children is under 2.
The next steps would be how you would furthur the child's development or another way to reinforce development.

Thanks much appreciated. Lesbianmummy1. thank you yes please. or do a link. thanks.

Will email you does your email address start with M think it is saved in my inbox somewhere

mjohn......

Thanks

Have emailed you

I don't plan medium or long term for any of the children I look after. Just when I do an observation (maybe once a month)then I do an observation, assessment and a short sentence to say what I plan to do to help or what to do next for the child.

I put stuff in a daily diary how they're getting on but I've cut down on my paperwork lately due to personal circumstances, even though I got an Outstanding last September.

I might be wrong but I thought we didn't have to do any EYFS stuff with school age children?

If so, then just carry on your paperwork with the two under 5's.

Scarfmaker you have to do eyfs until a child leaves reception year at school. They may phase that out with the new framework as that was a frequent comment in the consultation. It does not have to be as much though as you are not main provider but you must show you consider their needs in your planning.

How about doing something like planning a fine motor skills activity (targetted to the particular child you have observed but available to all children) and then differentiating it for the different ages/stages your children are at.

For example - if you did a gloop activity with three children aged 10 months, 2 years and 5 years old you might expect the 10 month old to explore the gloop with their hands, you could provide tools like rollers/rakes/spoons for the older children, and pens/sticks to encourage the 5 year old to "write" in the gloop, pracitising a pencil grip etc.

Do you have a copy of the practice guidance?

I plan for children in a nursery so slightly different, but the way I do it is to plan an activity for each day. Each activity is linked to an observation on a particular child (their next step) and then differentiated so every child regardless of ability is getting something out of the activity.

Thanks LesbianMummy1. Got info.

I wonder if I am trying too hard.

Do you plan for the older children (5 plus) or do you just plan generally for the older ones.

THanks

I have my long term planning (12 months at a glance) which is for all the children.
I then have my medium term planning (a month at a glance but with a bit more detail) which is for all children.
I then have short term planning for each child in the EYFS. This comprises of a weeks worth of topics, themes, activities etc taken from the medium term planning sheet, split down into the 6 areas of learning with alot more detail.
Then using the short term planning, each childs next steps and their age/stage goals, I work out a play plan for each child for that week.

Not sure if that is how it is supposed to be done but it works for me and I gained an outstanding grade at my last inspection, so Ofsted were OK with it.
So I must have been doing something right LOL.

Wow Tas1 very impressive. How long have you been cm'ing

Hi Tas1, what would the 12 months at a glance include. Im also so stuck. Would it be cheeky to ask for examples for long/medium term?

Love the long term planning etc. I am watching this space as some great ideas being shared.