planning

[natalie85]

Hi guys dont think im posting in the right place,
but here goes.
As a newbie childminder i like the idea of topics/themes, the minded children age from 19months to 8 years old.
I am not sure how long i should run each topic for? it cant be to long or the children will get board wont they.

your thoughts please??? xx

[charlotte1001]

we were told by ofsted that they should be termly, i work at a nursery and we used to do weekly themes but ofsted corrected this and said no they should be termly

[lyn c]

Originally Posted by natalie85

Hi guys dont think im posting in the right place,
but here goes.
As a newbie childminder i like the idea of topics/themes, the minded children age from 19months to 8 years old.
I am not sure how long i should run each topic for? it cant be to long or the children will get board wont they.

your thoughts please??? xx

Hi Natalie

we do both within our setting we plan around a child's interest and have themes/topics, we have just finished transport which we had for 2 weeks, we now have 2 weeks of shapes and then 2 weeks of colours they are all in the eyfs areas of developmant but we also plan around a child's interests e.g there is enough room that we add to the planning and sometimes take things away, so this is on going for the all weeks, for instance the planning might be colours but if a child interests are trains, we have sorting vehicles (a variety of colours that includes trains) we have a train colour game and we might put coloured bricks with the duplo trainset so we plan around the child's interest but we also incorporate the topic/theme of colours.

Hope it helps you

Lynne