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Unread 02-06-2014, 12:04 AM
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Nowadays ofsted want planning to be very much child innitiated. Of course as adults we still need to add our own ideas, so that we continue to enhance childrens understanding and imagination and give them new ideas. We do plan for all the 7 areas of learning but with a mixture of child and adult initiated activities. You need to get a good balance. We plan for the week ahead. Plans usually done on a thursday. That way we can see what interest the children have and incorporate them into the week ahead. Also they give us ideas. We do topics but loosely as for example we've just done the Chinese New Year which was fab, but a child brought in a map to show everyone some have been creating our own maps and using compasses. You need to get a good balance but plans should be fairly simple really. Two of the activities on the plans are observed with notes being taken on each child.
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