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Leaders and ManagersNetwork Meeting
6th March 2014
9.30-11.30 am
Agenda
• Welcome & Introductions
• EYFS Networks
• Training Plan
• Ofsted
• Transition document
• Messages from school & good practice transition
• Early Help Record
EYFS Networks
19th March : Ladybird Children’s Centre
26th March : Moredon Children’s Centre
Focus: Communication & Language
Training
New Early Years Educator qualification
From September 2014
Grade C minimum in English & Maths GCSE
EYFS amendments
Ofsted Inspections
• Safeguarding & Well-Being
• Leadership & Management
• Teaching & Learning
Safeguarding and Well-Being• Staff knowledge
• Secure attachments & emotional needs
• Care practices
• Physical exercise and healthy diet
• Transitions
• Understanding risks
• Behaviour management
• Safe & welcoming
• Motivated & engaged
Leadership & Management
• Provider is involved and fully responsible
• Safeguarding & welfare requirements
• Educational programmes & planning
• Rigorous self-evaluation
• Well-focused improvement plans
• Effective staff supervision
• Trainees & students
• Tackling underperformance
• CPD opportunities
• Deployment of staff-qualifications & skills
• Effective partnerships
• Sharing information
• Monitoring children’s progress
• Interventions where necessary
Meeting Children’s Needs: Teaching & Learning
• Planning-Prime & Specific Areas
• Engaged & motivated
• How children are supported to develop & learn
• High expectations
• Meeting individual needs
• Key Characteristics of Effective Learning
• Practitioner’s ‘Teaching’ facilitates learning
• Quality of teaching-consistent
• Focus on C&L , PD and PSED
• Practitioners have secure knowledge
• Assessment on-entry
• Ongoing assessments demonstrate progress
• Challenge
• Flexible routines
• Indoor & outdoor learning opportunities
• Two-year progress check
• Planning for transition to school
• Key Person system-parents involved in assessments
• SEN and children with additional needs making appropriate progress
• Equality Act 2010
Typical Range of Development• Age of Child
• Additional Needs
• Circumstances
• Attendance
• 40-60 months on transition to school
TeachingEarly Years Educators…
Many different ways in which adults help young children learn. Includes…
• interactions during planned and child-initiated play,
•communicating and modelling language
•Showing, explaining, demonstrating, exploring ideas, encouraging, questioning, recalling,
• providing a narrative for what they are doing
• facilitating and setting challenges.
• Takes into account equipment and the physical environment as well as structure and routines
• How practitioners assess what children know and can do as well as take into account their interests and ways of learning
• Use this information to plan children’s next steps in learning and monitor their progress
During the Visit:documentation
• DBS records
• Recruitment records
• Qualifications
• Training plan/CPD records inc. safeguarding
• Induction records
• Planning & assessment documents
• Complaints record
• Medical policy/accident book
• Self Evaluation
• Development plan
• Actions from previous Inspection
The Visit
• Meet Provider
• Talk with parents
• Tour
• Observations of practice
• Case track
• Leadership & management meeting
• Arrange feedback
Time for Discussion..
‘Moving On’ Document..
• General information pages
• Summary page
• Request ‘gaps’ sheets
• Learning journals
• Add date
• Assessments are inconsistent
• Phonics and aspect 7
• PD weak – hand skills/fine motor poor
• SEN guidance
• Good links and communication with feeder settings
• throughout the year
• Inviting children and staff to visit in terms 5 & 6
• Visits to settings
• Transition meetings for SEN in term 5
• Networking opportunities
• Involving parents
Next Meeting…