Am I doing the right thing?

[SaliMali1]

Hello, I just want you as parents to help me, I work 2 afternoons a week supporting a child with Downs Syndrome, he is great and doing really really well he is 2.10 years.

Today we made fathers day cards football shapes with a child's pic pf their dads face. Well my 1-1 id doing great but no way in hell will he manage this so we did an alternative, my setting leader went mad at me so we argued as I felt his dad would rather something he had done as uposed to something that I have basicly done or a card that he has dne all himself! Wew dissagreed and in the end we did it my way, but was a right?

Yes you are right SaliMali1.

Practitioners in early years settings should all have got the message by now that it is the process which matters, not the product. There is no point whatsoever in you producing a card for him. It has to be his own work.

Practitioners who produce a series of identical pieces of artwork on behalf of the children need to have another look at the EYFS.

Hello salimali; I have a salimali book here, hadn't heard of it until last week, well I never LOL.

You were right.

Youa chieved the same outcome- a card for dad- and amended the subject content to suit the ability of teh childhood.

Bang on. Differentiated learning, exactly how it should be.

Thanks you two it helps I often feel like I am out on limb on my own ! My setting leader insists all children do the same craft regardless of weather they can do it or even want to !!!! The child I support can't do some of these so I swap them for something he can do, this oveously has anoyed the setting leader.

Sancti Sali Mali is how I learnt to read in Welsh, she lived in a house with a blackbird for company !!!

She does LOL, it's ds4's first Welsh book (we moved here 5 years ago, he's the first welsh born in our faily since my Uncle in 1940)

salimali - you are absolutely right.

I owuld far rather have something produced by dd1 entirely, even if it is a single scribble, or a smeared hand print, etc.

why on earth would I want a card made by someone I don't know