Information about current influences on the planning provision of learning opportunities.
Staff Ratio
If you do not have enough staff within the setting, you cannot carry through certain activities you may have previously planned for the children. The EYFS website states that “Staffing arrangements must meet the needs of all children and ensure their safety is paramount. Providers must ensure that children are adequately supervised and decide how to deploy staff to ensure children’s need are met. Providers must inform parents/carers about staff deployment and when relevant, aim to involve them in these decisions. Children must be within the sight and hearing range of their key worker or a member of staff”, and also “only those 17 and …show more content…
This piece of legislation is one of the sole reasons we have and do planning within a childcare setting. Because of this piece of legislation we have to ensure that we are meeting the needs of each child, listening and allowing them to participate. It also means we have to make time to do observations on each child to see where they are at and what we can do to help them keep developing and growing.
Regulatory Reform Order 2005/2006 – this piece of legislations leads practitioners in Risk Assessment. When planning certain activities the practitioner will need to carry out several risk assessments, especially if the activity involves outdoor play or going on a field trip out of the setting.
Curriculum
Many curriculums and frameworks suggests ways and ideas for planning, and the curriculum is definitely one of the main influences on planning for this reason.
The national curriculum and EYFS frameworks are what we use to craft our lesson plans within a setting, for example, within the EYFS framework, it states that for children to develop well, they need to be involved in the following within their …show more content…
Inclusion Policy/Equality and Diversity
All the way through your planning, you must follow the Inclusion policy, ensuring you are involving all children, all children’s needs are being met and their interests taken into account, and that no one child is being discriminated e.g. a child whom may struggle to speak English being made to join in the nativity and have a big part within it which involves speaking, but ensuring this child is not being left out or not given a chance at taking part even if it means having little sentences to grasp and challenge.
Medical Needs/Care plans
You will have to fit these into your care plans, so for instance if Child A has specific dietary requirements, such as allergy to lactose or gluten, change a cake baking session to one that is gluten/lactose free and this includes the child, ensuring their medical needs are being met and the children are still getting to be creative with baking. If Child A’s parents have requested that they do not nap at naptime due to not sleeping at night, you may have to include something within your planning to do with Child A at nap time whilst the other children are