paperwork dilemma!!

[callialders]

hi all

i have a bit of a dilemma with my paperwork!
i am not sure what i am going to need i have an inspection in a few months as my last inspection was before they brought the eyfs out so need to make sure i have everything they will need??

i have a register which is filled in daily, first aid, ofsted and insurance certificate!
i have policies and procedures in place!

the things i am stuck on is planning( how do ya do it to ofsted standard) and i can do a observation but not sure how to link these to eyfs!! so confusing!

really need some help as would really like to get my paperwork up together if there is anyone who can help with this would be very grateful as not sure how to do thoses things and want to make sure i have these!

thanks for reading

calli xx

calli I think (but am a new childminder and no expert!) that you need short and long term planning - so long term planning might be each month you will look at a specific topic. Then short term planning is where you will say what you will do on a weekly or monthly basis.

So for example one month my topic is mini beasts (Long term planning) and each week of that month I do "mini beasts at home", "mini beasts abroad", "mini beast feasts, (what they eat!) & Mini beast life cycles.

I'm sure you can go into more detail (like on a monday you might do craft etc) but I prefer to be flexible and see what the children might like to do on any given day.

On the Learning and Development side of things I think you have to do something like this:

Say you observe a 9 month old pulling herself up on furniture, you observe the beahviour, so write something like "X was pulling herself up on furniture today independently and although a bit wobbly she looked very pleased". Then you link it to EYFS so you could say it links to Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Physical development, you can also link it to sub categories if you like - so within Physical Development there is Movement and Space - do whatever you feel comfortable with.

You then do individual panning for each child. So in this case you observed the child pulling up on objects so the next step would be to help balance and get her walking by herself - how would you do that? Buy a walker/get one from toy library, spend more time on feet and less on belly, clear obkects around the room so baby can now cruise safely and more easily.

I hope this makes sense, once you have a system of doing it I find it's relatively easy [eats own words].

And you absolutely must have done your risk assessments