Primary teachers, please can you answer a question.

[Shoshe]

I am CM following EYFS.

Ofsted now require us to liaise with all our school age mindees (not just reception) so that we do not do the same things after school as you do during the day.

To continue the child's progress and to have a written plan linked to the schools one.

Now we have a Confidentiality Honour with Parents, so do Schools, so how is it possible for us to discuss a child without the Parents permission?

And if we have permission, when do we discuss said child? in the playground and pick up time, or do we both have to give up yet more time after work to discuss said child?

Do we come along to Parents Evening as we have input into said child?

To me it is bloody stupid.

Primary teacher here - I agree, it is bloody stupid

Thank you Fimbo
But answer my question, you dont get out of it that aesy!

Feenie I just called you Fimbo!!!! To much blardy EYFS see I cant even read properly

It isn't possible for you to discuss the child without the parents' permission, nope.

You could make an appointment after school to chat to the teacher with parents' permission - I wouldn't mind talking to a cm about this if it were me. Or you could maybe just discuss the curriculum in general with the class teacher, which would avoid any repetition of activities. Or simply plan in general, then ask the child on a day to day basis what they had done to check for repetition?
I have a lovely cm for my ds, and I pay her to spend her working time caring for my ds. One of her EYFS courses had suggested putting the mindees into a playgroup for an hour so that they could get their paperwork done! Whole thing is bonkers.

at Fimbo! Know the feeling - just done a parents' evening tonight, have another tomorrow.

See that is the thing, NOWHERE in any of the mountains of EYFS paperwork, courses, Ofsted Inspections, have I ever been told to get parents permission!

Are you saying Ofsted require you to do this for OLDER schoolchildren???? That can't be right

You are right though, you would have to have it.

Shoshe-tis bloody ridiculous.. as is most of EYFS.
I am a teacher and want my cm to give my son a cuddle and let him play. I trust her and don't need any planning for him, just a snack and clean loo really.

My suggestion is that most schools send a termly letter to parents detailing roughly what they are doing; if you have a copy of that in each child folder, then you can show you are planning different activities.

What happens if child wants to do what they did at school to show you?

Hamster for all children in our care, even if only 15 minutes twice a week for the walk to school!

If that's true does that mean all after school provision has to do the same? E.g. After school clubs have to liaise with all the class teachers of their children(and some of those may come from different schools) and not repeat any activities. Because if you have to do it, they should have to do it.

Yep - they do it's legal for EY & recommended for all other ages

The nursery and school I take my littlies to give each child a "chat" book to take home each day with any comments the teacher wants to put in it. The parent then fills in anything she/he feels is appropriate and returns the book the next day. My parents are happy for me to contribute to this book and to read what the parents and teachers have written. This works well but I have a feeling at some point the littlies books may go walk-about in transit and it worries me a bit that all their info will be out there somewhere. Also I dont have a copy of this book to show ofsted they will just have to take my word that I contribute to it.

At my last school we used to give a half termly plan to all parents with details of the sort of thing that might be covered. This would certainly be something that could be passed on to childminders as there wasn't any confidential information in it.

I am with Robinpud. My children need to chill after 61/2 hours of working hard at school.

Askthe teacher for a copy of the curriculum map for the half term. many schools provide this for parents. Gives you an idea of topics and themes at least