eyfs planning documents

[SillyMillysMummy]

ok, so i am sorted with, policies, procedures, portfolio etc etc

but

i have had no eyfs training as of yet, and am thinking of purchasing the bcma planning, child contact and observation record, are they worth the money? i kind of understand what i need to do but am struggling with putting it into practise iykwim

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Ive bought them in the past, but, now have done the planning as a spider graph, and obs for each child in a A4 book for each of them, will link them with the symbols that were in this months Who Minds. Ofsted seemed to like it last week.

Shoshe, would you mind sending me an example of your planning? They A4 book frankly sounds a LOT easier for obs - can you stick pictures in them for "proof" as well?

Yes , umm hard to send you a example as its done freehand in the book, but basically, I draw a box in the middle, with childs age in it, draw a bigger box around it with comments of where he is on the charts, then spiders legs out of the box with the things i want him to get to next, if that makes sense.

Then I do the obs over the next few pages to link in with it then the next month, another graph with the age in the middle, what he has achieved in the middle, and the next steps on the legs.

This is for a under 1, for the older children I dont do the planning quite so often, but put more on it.

And yes I stick photos, drawings anything in it to be honest.

Personal, Social, Emotional Development
Self-Care
16-26 mths
Development Matter:
Show a desire to help with dress and hygiene routines.

Child Led: xxx picked up his shoe and tried to put it on while I was dressing another child.

Parent comment:

Forward plan: Ensure there is time for xxx to complete a self-chosen task such as trying to put on own shoes.

Photo

All the wording you need is in eyfs practice guidance. As long as you have an idea of the area of learning you are seeing and the child's age and development stage it is easy to make observations like this one.