Nursery Grant – Downham Nursery
This can be claimed by the school on your behalf. The grant pays for 15 hours per week i.e. 6 sessions.
During these sessions the child’s key person will make observations on each stage and area of their development. Currently these are arranged into 7 areas.
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication, Language
- Physical Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding of the World
- Expressive arts and Design
After making careful observation the key person will plan the next stage for each child’s learning. Each child has a very detailed Progress Record Book into which all observations are noted. When the child transfers to their new school, a summary of their levels of achievement is extracted from these records and sent to the Local Education Authority. The records are also given to parents to give to their child’s new teacher. This helps their new teacher plan for each child’s needs when they transfer.
When Ofsted inspectors visit the school they ask to see these records to ensure that they are being kept correctly and that the children have the opportunity to take part in all areas of the EYFS curriculum. Using these they make a judgment about the school’s effectiveness in monitoring each child and the plans, which are then written, to guide the child through their next stage of development.