FloraDora
17-02-2015, 04:28 PM
Well, The 'phew I've done it' period after Ofsted has worn off now and I need to get back on the treadmill of improving my practice!
In my action plan, the only uncompleted issue was making an area for independent access to art and craft, so the inspector and I ( silly me!) decided this could be my development point- she insisted that it be called 'messy play' as she pointed out access to pencils, crayons, felt tips, chalk, whiteboards etc.. Was already independent in the area I referred to as Mark making/ writing.
So it says :
'continue to enhance the already strong focus on supporting children's independence and decision making, for example, by enabling children to more easily access messy play resources throughout the day.'
I don't have a play room. I currently use my dining room table or a camping fold away table in the kitchen.
My current practise is that I might ask what they want to do or they ask me : they will say paints or collage or printing etc...and I then decide, depending on other activities out and age of children whether we sit at table or work in kitchen or sometimes camping table in dining room, but then it doesn't leave a lot of space in there. I set it out and the children experience.
In the summer though I had a great system of out door free access - I had an old wheeled hostess trolley with paint and glue in hand pump containers along with different papers, collage bits, printing materials, roller paint bottles and splodge paint bottles, rollers, sponges etc... The children helped themselves to paint or/and glue and pumped it into containers
Then chose which paper , what else they wanted and therefore it was completely independently accessed and worked really well. Almost free access, not waiting for me to set it up. The rusty old trolley got wheeled into shed at end of day ..easy peasy.
I would like to create an all year round version, but I like my house to not have any children stuff downstairs on days off and at the weekend and I have used up storage in dining room - I have a bureau that I have taken over, top drop down part is my art and craft storage and bottom cupboard is small world - this bottom bit works well for this, as all mine love small world beyond anything else and the easy independent access is constantly in play.
So I am after ideas, DH can make but I don't want it permanently out unless it looks like a normal piece of furniture, yet it has to be easy to disappear too.
I think I have set myself an almost impossible task, but of course I have now set myself up for the next inspection when I will need to show how I have addressed issue! And I do want this independence in art ....but I no longer have a classroom! ( improving my multicultural/ british values resources would have been so much easier!!!!)
She could see the summer art on my slideshow so new why I had it in my action plan ....and it is the only area They are not independent in accessing all year round...
Any suggestions? Sign posts? Good practise sharing? I would be very grateful if you could share. How you allow independent access to the messier art materials would be good to hear about too as I could take on board your ideas as a launchpad for design ideas for mine.
In my action plan, the only uncompleted issue was making an area for independent access to art and craft, so the inspector and I ( silly me!) decided this could be my development point- she insisted that it be called 'messy play' as she pointed out access to pencils, crayons, felt tips, chalk, whiteboards etc.. Was already independent in the area I referred to as Mark making/ writing.
So it says :
'continue to enhance the already strong focus on supporting children's independence and decision making, for example, by enabling children to more easily access messy play resources throughout the day.'
I don't have a play room. I currently use my dining room table or a camping fold away table in the kitchen.
My current practise is that I might ask what they want to do or they ask me : they will say paints or collage or printing etc...and I then decide, depending on other activities out and age of children whether we sit at table or work in kitchen or sometimes camping table in dining room, but then it doesn't leave a lot of space in there. I set it out and the children experience.
In the summer though I had a great system of out door free access - I had an old wheeled hostess trolley with paint and glue in hand pump containers along with different papers, collage bits, printing materials, roller paint bottles and splodge paint bottles, rollers, sponges etc... The children helped themselves to paint or/and glue and pumped it into containers
Then chose which paper , what else they wanted and therefore it was completely independently accessed and worked really well. Almost free access, not waiting for me to set it up. The rusty old trolley got wheeled into shed at end of day ..easy peasy.
I would like to create an all year round version, but I like my house to not have any children stuff downstairs on days off and at the weekend and I have used up storage in dining room - I have a bureau that I have taken over, top drop down part is my art and craft storage and bottom cupboard is small world - this bottom bit works well for this, as all mine love small world beyond anything else and the easy independent access is constantly in play.
So I am after ideas, DH can make but I don't want it permanently out unless it looks like a normal piece of furniture, yet it has to be easy to disappear too.
I think I have set myself an almost impossible task, but of course I have now set myself up for the next inspection when I will need to show how I have addressed issue! And I do want this independence in art ....but I no longer have a classroom! ( improving my multicultural/ british values resources would have been so much easier!!!!)
She could see the summer art on my slideshow so new why I had it in my action plan ....and it is the only area They are not independent in accessing all year round...
Any suggestions? Sign posts? Good practise sharing? I would be very grateful if you could share. How you allow independent access to the messier art materials would be good to hear about too as I could take on board your ideas as a launchpad for design ideas for mine.