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EYFS Observation, Assessment and Planning Policy and ProcedureChild Led
At Wild Monkeys Childcare, we use the new Development Matters guidance to build our curriculum. We start each fortnight by sharing our ‘book of the week’ to inspire the children. This creates lots of excitement and discussion. We then provide a variety of stimulating activities based on the book, following our children’s interests and seeing where the learning will take us! Rather than having a rigid daily plan for learning, this allows us to be flexible and helps to ensure that the children are fully engaged with their learning and play. This promotes brain development, confidence, and emotional and physical wellbeing. We also provide rotating resources and provocations related to events, celebrations, and changes in the world around them, to ensure children are exposed to lots of different opportunities, topics, and ideas! At Wild Monkeys, we have several ‘focus children’ over a period of time. Staff will focus on observing these children whilst they play to find out more about their interests and development, and to promote their learning. All children will be focus children during the term, and staff will provide the same great care to all children. When your child is a focus child, we will post on Tapestry asking you to share any information you would like about your child - this could be about their interests, their learning and development, any significant events at home, or anything else. We will use this to inform our activities during their focus time. At the end of your child’s focus time, the observations of your child will be uploaded to Tapestry, and you can contact the office to arrange a meeting with your child’s key worker. Integrated Progress Review (27 Month Check) When children are between 27 and 30 months of age, parents and the nursery must agree an appropriate time to review their progress in the prime areas of learning after the child has seen the Health Visitor. The manager will then provide parents with a short written summary of their child’s strengths and any areas where the child’s progress is not as expected. If we identify any significant concerns about a child, we will develop a targeted plan to support their future learning, involving other professionals as appropriate. If children also attend another early years setting, the provider that the child spends the most time with should complete the summary.
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