Am so stressed with Mrs O coming on Wednesday, mainly because it is my sisters wedding on the weekend so I won't be home to get anything done :o( Am struggling to get paperwork done here, but having a 17 month old it is hard!

I haven't done a SEF, am not sure if I have to right now? I have only had one mindee at the moment who is 6. I collected her from school 2 days a week. She is now away for the summer holidays and I will have her again for a week before school starts.

On the day that Ofsted are coming I have a settling in morning with a 2 and 3 year old. I have met the mum, but not the dad or children as they are away for the summer! I don't really think I can show any plans for them as I only know their names so I don't know what their interests are or what they like? The 3 year old is only coming for 2 mornings as she is helping her sister to settle with me and then she is starting in nursery, but I won't be taking her. The 2 year old I will hopefully have for 2 mornings a week though.

I do have another mindee lined up for January but that is a long way off! I have met him though, he is the same age as our daughter which is nice. It will be for 4 long days so I'm very happy!

I'm just not sure how I can write anything in the SEF as in relating to what children think of my setting and what activities I do with them, but does this only relate to the EYFS? I'm so confused.

I think I have all my policies in place, am doing risk assessments and making sure that I have all my paperwork for child records completed. I remembered to put parental consent down on my forms as well. Do I need to show some planning if I haven't met the children yet, or could I talk about what I would like to do and what learning areas it would cover?

Thanks load for reading, love Claire X x X

Hello

Did your tell them this when they phoned to make appointment.

Personally I do not think it is a good idea to have Mrs O come on a day when you are settling the children - it is not fair to the children - you will be extra stressed and will have some of your attention on Mrs O not them.

As you rightly say - you won't have any planning for the children present done or any LJ evidence - and Mrs O will be expecting to see this for the children present on the day.
I would advice you to phone Ofsted and ask if you can rearrange for in a few weeks time once the children have settled and you have some plans and other evidence available. Explain that having thought about it - it is not in the children's best interests to have a visitor to the setting on that day. - and if ofsted insist - well you did warn them.

Penny :)

Penny,

Thanks so much for your reply!

I didn't think it would be very fair either as it would be their first day, but didn't want to be making excuses to get out of it! I decided to phone them to see if I could postpone it, the lady I am going to see next week has just phoned me back!:eek: Oopps!! She has said that it is absolutely fine and that it doesn't matter if you have kids with you or have never had kids! She just wants to make sure I have everything in place for when I do. Hhmm seems a little unfair to me as I can't show her anything to do with the kids, but as you say at least I warned her!

I also asked about the SEF and it only relates to the Early Years, so I can't take anything from the play I did with the 6 and 8 year old. Oh well, at least I have said that all I can do at the minute is write about my setting which doesn't seem like a lot to me.

Guessing I will just have to ask the little ones on the day what they like etc and start planning!! Any ideas on some nice things to do, or just let them decide themselves?!

Thanks loads, X x X