I've read somewhere on here that if you care for a child in reception class for less than 2 hours a day then you aren't required to follow eyfs for them, as their main provider is the school itself?? Mentioned this to my cm coordinator last week when she came out to go through my files, policies etc (Ofsted due!) and she said I still have to do obs/assessments right up to 31st August and she'd never heard of this before.
A school pick up I recently started to look after was 5 last year (1 of youngest in year) and I only collect dc from school over 3 days for a total of just over 4 hrs a week, by the time we walk home and I do tea, we have about 30 mins before dc collected by parent - parent often early. After tea, plays with my ds or watches tv with him (which parents are more than happy about) - don't really get a chance to 'plan' for his development (he's hit all the 'goals' for assessment as far as I can assess from the limited time I spend with him) and I'm confused about what I should be doing regarding his records. I have obs and assessment files for other mindees, which I involve parents in when completing, but to be honest it seems like a complete waste of time to compile this file (wasting ink and paper!) when I have him so few hours.
Am hoping that whoever posted on original thread can please, please let me know where in the eyfs documents I can find the bit that says dc is exempt because the care is less than 2 hrs a day - or anyone else, what are you doing with reception aged mindees you only have a few hours a week!!!???
Help, done a lot of work leading up to inspection and would hate to get a nit-picky inspector who picks me up on this without me having an answer for them!!!