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Leading the Agenda

28th March 2017

0-3 Quality Assurance Group

Summary of visits to Eligible Two’s Settings

Marie Keen

Eligible Two Settings visited

• Broomhouse & St Joseph’s Primary School
• Cameron House Nursery School
• Fort Early Years Centre
• Fox Covert Early Years Centre
• Gylemuir Primary School
• Leith Walk Primary School
• Oxgangs Primary School
• Royal Mile Primary School
• Hillwood Hub

Self Evaluation Report

The report outlined:

• Background
• Strengths
• Areas for Development
• Clear Action Plan

(Task, By Whom, Resources, Time, Impact/progress)

Strengths

• Welcoming and inviting environments with high quality

equipment, furniture and natural resources in most settings

• Warm, positive and warm interactions between staff and

children in all settings

• Good range of outdoor experiences in almost all settings
• Story sessions were well supported by practitioners in all

settings

• Examples of joint working and

supporting transitions in the majority

• f settings.

Areas for development

• More heuristic play opportunities
• Better defined arts and craft areas with more

consistent mark making opportunities throughout the room

• More block play opportunities
• Bed time stories developed further
• Further training and support with floorbooks /

E Learning journals

Action Plan

• 1. Staff in each setting to engage in moderation

sessions on floorbooks / e-learning journals

• 2. Staff will provide better defined and accessible

arts and craft areas with a wider range of resources for children to choose freely

• 3. Staff will attend training on block play and

develop and promote further in their setting.

Self Evaluation - Moderation events

Eligible 2’s – planning and assessment

‘Using HGIOELC to self evaluate planning and

assessment : What is our capacity for Improvement?’ Building the Ambition Relevant toolkits

Examples SQIP Action Page

SQIP

SQIP COMPONENTS

Standards and quality report

• This should be informed by ”intelligence” gathered through self evaluation from a variety of

sources

• Be evaluative
• Include information on the impact of current priorities

Improvement plan action pages

• Linked to the NIF

Report to parents

Improvement planning

Builds on self-evaluation by:

• involving staff in understanding and valuing

the best which already exists

• acknowledging what needs to be done
• taking the views of all stake holders
• identifying the best way forward

PRIORITIES

Identified from:

• auditing the work of the nursery
• national or authority initiatives
• NIF
• the nursery vision
• particular local initiatives/cluster
• HMIe / Care Inspectorate reports/ action plan

EY Blog

http://tinyurl.com/edearlyyears