Discussion Question? Help!

Help children support each other through challenging activities and achievement.

Hi all,
I have been looking at this forum for a couple of weeks now and too be honest its been a life saver. This is my first post so I am so hoping someone can help me with this question above which is going to be part of my professional discussion.

Thanks in Advance

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi and welcome.

You could encourage them to cheer on, clap, enjoy, congratulate, commiserate and look forward to the next activity/step/stage/turn.

Look at how you all position yourself - do you sit/stand, as individuals or a group - together or alone, do you lower yourself so that you are on at the same eye level as the child to help invite & engage their interest.

Where are adults deployed in order to help the children support each other.

Use facial expressions and language that the children can use/adpat in their own experiences - words that encourage, reassure and commiserate: be understanding, be serious, smile.

Give guidance when children's self esteem drops - this may happen if a child compares the outcomes of another to their own. If circumstances fail to allow a task to be completed - time, if they wanted to partner a friend, take a turn first, not want to go at all ...

Help them to undersand everyone has strengths, does things differently and with practice / interest everyone is able to take part.

It may help if you think of some situations where children are able to support each other and how you feel or interpret 'challenging activities and achievements to mean - sports day, climbing, running & speed, mark making, ball catching, passing items to each other in transit, receiving praise, achievements assembly, grazed knee, returning to a room ..

I hope this helps, best wishes with your discussion

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Thankyou so much, I have been trying to prepare for these discussions all day.
Any ideas what this means??? My head feel like its going to explode today!!

How do you implement transparent procedures and information drawing on available resources about access to provision to meet the needs of all children?

[Ruthierhyme]

This can refer to information and practice that is kept unnecessarily private and also the reasoning behind why a setting needs to safeguard its information and practice.

Transparent being - what you read, what you request information on, what you see/hear/feel/touch and smell is exactly what you get as a parent, as a child, as a colleague, stakeholder, or an interested party.

Implementing procedures to ensure transparency will involve ways of evaluating all that happens in and around the setting - evaluation in this situation asks 'why is something considered confidential or why is it freely available and should they be - if yes, why and if no, why?

Evaluating what you do and the way's it's done can be introduced through staff and other meetings, reading and sending in feedback, challenging what happens or doesn't happen, receiving or researching additional information and working in partnership.

Other ways are to use easy to read language that minimises or explains any industry specific terms/jargon eg: Acronyms are given full names or explanation.
Basic details are always included - not including them can be like picking up a new book and starting in the middle.

When something is confidential being transparent means you can explain why it is confidential and be reassured by the knowledge that those explanations/reasons do not dicriminate or cause harm.

There are two good indepth replies to this from members - here and here.

If you need to find an example to base a reflective account on try thinking of all the information that you wouldn't or that you'd think twice about stating or discussing openly in public - this may can depend where you are and who you're with.

Identify why you are concious of not disclosing or discussing the information and you will discover the reasoning behind confidential and freely available information - who is at risk, why and what the information may be used for.

Data protection act

Hth
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