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I have just spent all day,doing the early years self evalution form ,and I still have not finished it
Could anyone tell me how to make this work load easlier,or will I still be doing it to Christmas!!

[cabin]

I'm doing mine tomorrow - or should I say starting it tomorrow. xxxx

good luck,let me know how you get on,if you can finish it in one day, I will give you a gold star
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[cabin]

Well, I sat down with my deputy - we looked at it....... then put it back in the folder and had lunch and a good long chat instead - think that's what's called 'burying (s?) ones head in the sand' syndrome!

oh well...... there's always tomorrow!

xxxxx

Originally Posted by cabin

Well, I sat down with my deputy - we looked at it....... then put it back in the folder and had lunch and a good long chat instead - think that's what's called 'burying (s?) ones head in the sand' syndrome!

oh well...... there's always tomorrow!

xxxxx

Nice one!!
I spent the next day doing it,and it does not feel like its getting any where,so Im giving up on it,until I go back to Pre-School, and then
I'll have another go with the staff help, not that they will want to do it!!!!!:laughing:

[Brandy]

we have done it it took us quite a long time having 2 things to refer to eg the guidance and the form, made it very time consuming, it took us a day to get it sorted and now we have finally got our code to get it online, and i expect that will be another story how long that will take!
When i first started in playgroup 9 yrs ago it was very different not half so much paperwork, i can see why we need to do it, but its having the time, in a busy setting, we did it in our own time in the hols otherwise we would never have got it done.

[suewhit]

well cabin I thought we where the only group that had the sand syndrome !
sue

[cabin]

and parents think it's there for the children to play in!!!!

xxx

[cabin]

mines still looking at me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......... still there's always tomorrow,

Seriously though, depending on what kind of setting you are -you need to look at these things in perspective....
Since I've been at current setting we've always done a kind of self evalution ( During my training I was lucky enough to be envolved with the ELLs project at an early stage) and it is something that I always carry at the back of my mind)......... eventalully the self eval becomes somthing that is part of everyday life at the setting, you probably do it anyway - questioning what you do and why............. even making sure you have the correct pol + proc on a regualr basis makes you question why you do certain things and how you can improve - and can help you from getting stuck in a rut.

For me the most important thing is to get the staff fully involved. Where I am now the staff seriously lack personal development skills -as the last owner was a total control freak and wouod not allow staff have any real input. That said this is where the 'crunch' comes - how on earth do you find the time + money for wages to allow full staff imput??
I could sit (in my own) and probaly do it in and wiz through it in a couple of hours (because I'm familiar with the process) but what's the point of that??? We need full staff input for it to be effective, and to do this I know would taken much, much longer, and with lots more people - and our setting for one cannot really afford this luxury, so in reality- I will fill it in - and we will just have to gloss over it at our next trainning day. Our LA allows us one child free session a term fully funded, so we'll jsut have to run through it there, however in two and half hours, with the need to do other bits+bobs I don't think we'll do it much justice.

Rant over!!!!!!!!! .....apologise for spelling and bad grammar
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[Brandy]

thought we had done ours apparantly we have not praised ourselves enough according to our advisor, another day tweaking it is needed before it goes online, more paperwork!