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I am so sorry it is so late! I have been putting my heart and soul into the portfolio which is now complete. I have uploaded my outdoor learning approaches. I just briefly explained Forest schools and Danish Udeskole. Both very similar approaches and can definitely be extended throughout school life and beyond. Fabulous 🙂

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Great session as always Nicky. Thank you for all that you all do x

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We don’t use a pedagogical document exactly, other than Development matters. However, this will be reviewed in July to suit the setting’s needs. We use a range of theoretical perspectives, again, to suit the needs of the setting and children at the time. We are very much on the wavelength of KEYU and the ITMP concept. We continue to reflect and adapt our practice regularly as the children change.

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Fingers crossed this works (new laptop)

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Maybe that’s why I am too, but i am so happy to have people around me who are equally as passionate as I am 🙂 Team EYFS rock!

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Love the Welcome to Holland. It really hits home for me, as we lightly discussed, Nicky. My 16 year old son has always been different to the other children in his classes and from my own children. He has been hard, hard work! My first born, my baby, and I was only his age now when i found out I was pregnant, so just a child myself. But he taught me so much about the world. Different outlooks and perspectives. I love to discuss with parents when they comment on their own child’s quirky or challenging behaviours and say “I know this feeling”.

Yesterday he bought me a Mother’s Day gift and that is something he has never done before. He has always been too awkward. But he sort of threw it at me in embarrassment and ran off! haha. I am so proud of my quirky boy, and although we refused assessment because it was too distressing for him, I am confident he is finding his way into adulthood 🙂

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Please find attached my interim tasks.

Thank you 🙂

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I found the article really interesting and totally relatable.

Staff are passionate about the child’s voice in my setting and this was picked up at the last Ofsted.

An example, recently the display board was blank after Christmas and I just did not know what to do with it. It was dull. One day before xmas a parent had donated (quite frankly) a bag of rubbish… however, in this bag was a little door. So we put the door on top of the display board and totally forgot all about it over xmas. The children had not even seen the door yet. When the children returned one of the children noticed it. The whole class became absolutely fascinated by what may be behind the door. We called a circle time to discuss and the children planned a whole theme! So much so that it totally inspired us to change our provision. We are mostly ITMP but now we had to incorporate this idea of a theme because the children got so much out of it. It exploded! Parents were involved, we documented so much of the child’s voice, so much so we made a whole slideshow video (will happily share the link, just have to ask parents first) and showed the children who were amazed at becoming “Youtube stars”

Throughout the week the children and parents were making comments about other things they’d like to see and explore at the setting. So every week we magpie these ideas and suggestions and ask the children to plan the activities, which now goes on the display board, re-named “the working wall”. We put up any work they have done at home to show they’ve been talking to their families about it, photos from home or the setting and eventually the wall builds up to be a huge masterpiece of progression. We also ask the children to give themselves goals that they want to achieve. It can be to get up and sing to their friends, learn to do their zip, or anything at all and this is displayed for them too.

I could go on all day, I’m super passionate about this stuff. But if you’d like to know more about what we do at Smiley Pre-school I’ll happily lead a tour or zoom session or even write a blog about it!

We often discuss morals and feelings, for example with the door, it had become a fairy that lived there (the children’s choice) so we often talked about the fairy being lonely, bored, we gave it songs, stories, left activities for it to play with. We shared all of this with parents for them to get involved too to discuss further with their children and wish us. So lots of BV and CC going on there 🙂

[LaurenClay]

Will be starting on this next week after I have written the attachment assignment so this is really helpful, thank you 🙂

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Will be there, I have some questions on the attachment task 🙂

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Can I just say thank you so much Amanda for running that catch up session. You’re so busy and I really appreciate it! It was so beneficial. You’re a superstar!

Also, with regards to transitions pacey’s e-learning page have recently provided a free course for this.

There’s also some new ones about attachment and outdoor learning which people may find beneficial for future assignments or change project, for example.

Have a lovely evening x

[LaurenClay]

I’ll be there, portfolio at the ready and with some brilliant info from the Early Years Fundamentals team x

[LaurenClay]

so gutted I missed this. It was hubby’s birthday and after what has been the most difficult year for our marriage I thought I best make an effort haha. Hope it went well and see you at the next one x

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Here is my reflective log and audit.

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Ah well done lovely. I love the forum. I love reading through all the posts x

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