As we have recently updated the children’s assessment journals, we thought it would be a good time to share what else we do to support your little people.
Everything we do at Karibu is carefully thought out and is linked to developing a particular skill or disposition.
We start by observing your child, noticing what they can do but also what they need support in. We note these observations down and then add a few of the observations to their assessment journal.
Having made observations we then start using the observation as well as our professional opinion to assess your child. We use the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage - Development Matters’ document which you can simply access via Google. It’s a great read! We use the assessment journals to regularly record how your child is developing within the age-bands. If you ever want to take a look at these then please just ask as you are more than welcome to take them home to look through.
Having observed and assessed your child, we then use this information to inform our planning. We look at their assessments in their journals and chose some ‘next steps’ for your child. We really like it when you give us some ideas on areas where you think your child needs to develop as children can often be very different outside of the home. All of this process comes together and an ‘Individual Plan’ is then created. This is a plan that we share with yourselves and we work from on a daily basis.
These plans inform what we are doing on a day to day basis and who to target during particular learning experiences. For example, during a creative activity we may be encouraging one child to use scissors with one hand, another child might need to develop their control of pen using a tripod grip, a few children might be needing to develop their imagination when drawing a picture and we might be developing independence with another child and aim to give them less support. All children access an activity at different levels and it’s up to the adult to facilitate their learning.
The process then starts again. Using our planning we observe how they learning (through independent and adult-led sessions), assess them and then plan how we can move them forward!
If you have any questions or would like to see any of what we have mentioned then please just ask.
Simon Jay