Planning in new EYFS

Planning in new EYFS

by: redsky - 22-07-08 21:31

Hey, how is everybody doing with their EYFS planning? I am the head of preschool at my setting.
I am sooo stressed, we have only just had our training from our local early years service, and it is all "trial material" that we are supposed to have a look at and use how we think and feedback ideas etc and will be all permanent next year when received all feedback etc. And it is nearly August already, it's all supposed to be in place by September, but I am getting no time out at all to do anything, I have read the whole EYFS from front to back, and looked through all of the early years service documentation, at home of course, but I need to sit down and figure out what we're doing, with our teacher, and the room leaders from the younger rooms, and our manager, and it's just not happening! ARGH! Any ideas anyone??

by: Millie

Hi redsky

Everything is virtually the same as Birth-3 or the Foundation Stage requirements they have been blended and it is really not that scary -as a childminder I have experienced both of these and now the new EYFS is not so daunting.  If you are used to these you should be OK.  Only things have changed are the developmental benchmarks that a child should reach (or not as each child is different) as these now thankfully overlap (+Numeracy section - some of the wording - but no doubt you know this already so wont go into it).

 Although you can have a lose curriculum plan for the year your planning should be based around the children's interests and individual needs. 

Maybe start with aiding memory and recall skills re holidays and their experiences.  The weather is sometimes OK in September and you could create a beach/holiday scene inside or outside. 

Use small paddling ponds one with sand and one with water - provide buckets, spades (Have regard for H&S for those of you who may pick me up on this!!).  One nursery I recently visited covered their whole back room and did this -- fantastic for boys and pre-writing skills, they were writing their initials or names in the sand using upper arm actions, the younger ones were manipulating, scrunching the sand between their fingers and creating patterns,  promoting both gross and fine motor skills enhancing their development.

Also if you look on the EYFS website and disc there are many proformas and examples of planning that you could use to help you move forward.

Good luck

by: bam259

hi redsky,

I am going to run with 'ourselves' or 'all about me' to get something down on paper (obs, photos) for each child re:interests and then will begin to personalise based on evidence collected. I will use continuous provision to replace long term planning.

We can but try.

All the best.

by: Jo

Hi,

We have recently sent out booklets for the parents to fill in and return to us about their children thier likes/dislikes e.t.c we are now looking at these booklets and taking ideas off them to start us off with our individual planning, hopefully once this is in place we can then look forward to planning activities for the children's own interests and build on their experiences. Hope this helps.

by: k23

hi recently i worked in a private day nursery as a nursery officer. WeE did the EYFS training as a whole nursery and found it really good. For the induvidual planning it does not mean u have 2 have a seperate plan for each child as this would be ludicris!

We used to do our observations dailiy ensuring that each child had 1 observation per week. Then we would c what the children are interested in and encorporate this in our planning as an adult intiated activity. This helps to extend the childrens learning by adults but originating from the childs interests. On my planning sheets i would jot down the initials of the particular child/children i was carrying a certain activity out 4 and make sure they attend the setting on the day u plan it for. This means you can plan ahead some things for the week but mainly do the planning at the end of each day from what u have seen the childre doing the previous day.

hope this helps x 

by: kaz

We have been slowly implementing the EYFS for nearly a year now and the final stage was the planning. We have PLODS (possible lines of development) sheets that my staff add to when they want to plan for a child's interest. For example, new child this week is mad about trains so next week we are planning to get the train track out on the days he attends and do some train songs etc.....On the planning sheet, a child initiated activity is in blue with the child's name under it and the adult (planning for the 6 areas) is in black. Each member of staff is now taking responsibility for a weeks planning using the PLODS to inform it.