"Focusing attention"??

[beckyteddy]

We are supposed to link our observations to individual development matters statements though, so surely we are meant to be showing when and how the children are "achieving" those statements? By giving evidence of them doing each thing once we've observed it?

[moggy]

We are supposed to link our observations to individual development matters statements though, so surely we are meant to be showing when and how the children are "achieving" those statements? By giving evidence of them doing each thing once we've observed it?

We do not have to link our observations to individual Dev Matters/EYO statements. It has never been a requirement, the problems with doing so as I said above.

I link all Obs to 1, 2 or 3 relevant Areas (PD, PSED, CL etc) only, not even Aspects (but that is because I know what Aspect each would fit into and want to save time).

I find the 'best fit' age/stage for a child in my termly progress reviews by reading the complete set of statements for an age/stage and seeing if that is the best fit for that child, or not. There are many statements that a child will never do but still be progressing beautifully. There are a billion things a child will do that are not listed in those statements.

Of course, we all have our own ways of linking obs, this is just my view but where it has been discussed in the past here has been agreed Dev Matters or EYO are not 'tick lists' to be matched to word for word and ticked off.