Not sure if anyone has any information on this. A childminder at my school had her inspection earlier this week. She was pleased that overall she got a good, however the inspector made a big deal of the fact that she had no planning in place for her before/after school children (the inspector gave her satisfactory against one aspect because of this). Now I wasn't in a position to stop and chat to find out more.
Now I know nothing like this has been mentioned in the posts by those that have had their new inspections. Do you think it could be one of those ofsted inconsistencies of inspection?
Does anyone know if we have to show planning for our 5 to 8 yr olds. I only have one child in that bracket and he's only with me for 1/2 hour after school. His mum arrives before we've even finished snack.

I had my inspection today:D and the inspector was more than happy with my daily diary for the over 5's. Also if a big interest then I will plan for that event, for example they older children where talking about the moon being made of cheese, and mars being made of mars bars ect:laughing: so I got some books about space, dug out the binoclous ready to look out to 'space' and torches in the dark garden, she was well impressed:clapping:

I don't have any children (apart from my own) in the rising fives, but in the past have written the daily routine and linked it with the goals

I'm working on something for after schoolers now...

It will follow my group planning, with space for following the child's interests.

You are right, they are an often forgotten age group with all this concentrating on the little ones. :D

I am also doing things for the over 5s

Not a lot

But just to cover myself - a lot of the time during the holidays they are doing what the younger ones do anyway so its only a bit more paper work for me

Angel xx

How are you documenting what you are doing with the after schoolers?

I have done them a scrap book so they/I can take pics so the parents can see what they get upto and they put pics in so they have something to show for their time here when they leave but I want to plan some activities so they know what to expect on what day. Any suggestions of how I can document that?

I'm working on something for after schoolers now...

It will follow my group planning, with space for following the child's interests.

You are right, they are an often forgotten age group with all this concentrating on the little ones. :D

Sarah

Will be you selling as an ebook? The after schoolers are my main income and have to be honest and say I haven't done anything. They just come back to mine and have freeplay!

Rachelle

Sarah

Will be you selling as an ebook? The after schoolers are my main income and have to be honest and say I haven't done anything. They just come back to mine and have freeplay!

Rachelle

I've just added 'After School Children' to my mini e-book library... it's on my website.

I was nearly finished writing it when I read this post...

There are not a lot of activity ideas though, as I think I've covered those elsewhere and I think free play is pretty much all they need tbh after a full day at school.

It's more about managing this agegroup, getting the paperwork right and the Childcare Register figures big time as it's so important to get the legal aspects sorted out. :D

Thats tonights reading sorted then

Thanks for everyone's replies. I'm not sure what I will do. As I said I only have one child in the 5 to 8 category and he's with me for such a short time he's barely finished his fruit and drink when his mum arrives so there really isn't much planning I can do there.
During the school holidays I have children between 2 and 4 yrs and then over 10's. Obviously the planning I have covers the little ones but as far as the older ones are concerned I got fed up of planning activities for them to do and them saying 'don't want to do that' and 5 minutes later ' what can I do?' so I get them to list what they want me to provide about a week before the hols so that I can get any stuff. They also decide together what outings we do (I give them a list of suggestions and a budget and they research them on the internet before making their choice).
I do find that the big kids will often join in with the little ones activities too as long as you don't ask them to.......just get on with it and they'll ask if they can join in.

At the moment I only have before and after schoolers. I find that they just want to come in from school and relax, go on computer and basically do their own thing. What I do try and plan are the multicultural festivals, halloween, we had sparklers (with parents written permission) on bonfire night - one of the parents didn't give permission and suggested glowsticks for that child - so got them for each child as well - inclusion - spent a small fortune on them and said child was picked up early so had to send it in the packet home with child:angry:
Carol