Sharing info with charges/mindees school/nursery

[Lifeinagoldfishbowl]

I was just wondering whether anyone shared information with their charges/mindees schools/nurseries and how this was done.

In my mind we are both working " alongside each other " in a sense as we are ensuring the child moves forward with their development, learns new skills, etc.

So do you work to the same topics that are set up at nitsery or do you try and help charge/mindee with their nursery targets ie charge needs to learn how to feed self independently, or to recognise the letters of their name; or do you just do your thing and not worry about their progress etc at the nursery/school.

Does school share information with me? No, it's quite rare to get any information from school - except for the newsletter in the schoolbag.

While I agree about the working alongside each other thing, it's got to be a 2 way process. If the school doesn't share information, can they really expect me to share anything with them?

What do they want to know anyway? What information would you share?

We are required by EYFS to 'share' information between settings - however it is not easy - I generally approach them in writing with a copy of the permission from the parent & then file that as I rarely get a reply

Nursery used to send me 1/2 termly topic diagrams, with aims/objectives of that 1/2 term. We had a communication book that was used on occasion.

I know I am very lucky, the school/nursery as well as other settings that I visit are all great at sharing info and its definately 2 way.
I have a termly meeting at school for my reception child and the teacher is always very interested in what I have to say, nursery is the same.

They send home copies of their planning and they also give me copies of sheets they may be using - such as for the phonics etc.

I can even go in and observe occasionally

Its all obviously with parental permission

i see all the work/info including development files

yes attempt to do the weeks/terms topics and pratice letters/shapes/numbers at home

nick - i get the newsletter emailed to me,as it comes home on a friday (which i dont work) mb will leave it out for me, but often db tidies it away

the school emails them every week to parents (incase child doesnt give it to them) so i got on the email list as well

always handy for term dates/info/topics etc

I tend to do my own thing with the children as I too have tried communicating with a nursery and got nothing back. They didn't give me anything so after a couple of months I wrote a letter saying we need to show to ofsted that we are communicating etc. and gave them some photos with obs, bits of a daily diary and what the child liked doing etc.

After 5 months still hadn't got any paperwork back and then I finished with the child anyway.

On my Self Evaluation Form online to ofsted I just put "no feedback" just to show that I had tried.

Anyway, I have another 3 year old who has just started 1 day at a nursery so I'll see if the same thing happens.

It's so hard anyway as nannynick says. I don't get the time to be knowing what they are doing in nurseries and trying to plan my own day around that so I do my own thing.