help with planning FS

[skiteacher]

HI guys, I need your help. I've spent the last 2 days starting to get my head around my new job. And it's spinning more than ever. The planning / timetables / example of daily planning i've got from the old teacher does not make any sense to me / give me enough info on how the class works, so i'm starting from scratch. Unfortunatly the school / class is quite different from the 2 other reception classes I work in regularly and what we do there just won't work. I'm also not used to planning FS totally from scratch.
I'm sure I remember some of you are in reception. Could you help out and send me examples of your planning - weekly / or long term. And a time table? Or any of you that know people in reception that might be able to get hold of something? I'm been wading my way through the web and found some useful stuff but not overall planning.
Thank you muchly in advance.
Bit of background: it's a inner london, low acheiving 5 form entry infants school, lots of EAL / non-english background, really need to do more outdoor stuff, there is a huge area but not used well.

[firecrest]

I wish I could help but I have never planned any FS work and I am not sure what goes on in our unit it looks like organised choas. Hope some else can be more help for you. Good luck
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[smc533]

Hi Ski

First, go here
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It doesn't actually come into effect until Sept '08, but most schools and publications are starting to implement it from now on in.

The best way to approach it is to pick a topic and then do a topic web with the areas of learning identified in separate sections. Write down all your
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s for each area. Plan to do one topic per half term and cover all the learning areas about equally over the year.

Split your class into small groups based broadly on ability. Find out how much class support you'll hvae 'cos then you can plan to have maybe 2 or 3 groups working with support and the others on free choice (but limit that 2 a
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of things so there isn't chaos).

Also, bear in mind that for the first half term at least, the kids will be exhausted by about half way through the afternoon, so you'll probably need to give your last session of each day over to songs and stories.

Practical Preschool magazine is a good thing to subscribe to, with good
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s (follow the link to my website to check out some of the things I've written for it and you can link to their website from mine too.

Hope that helps at least a bit. Let me kow if I can help any further

[skiteacher]

Thank you S. - i'd bee nthinking along those lines. But i'm only there the next 1/2 term! I'll worry about starting the year if I get a job for sept! I was going to pick a theme, just not sure whether one theme for the whole time or a
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of weeks at a time. I have a ta the whole time and an LSA for a SEN girl some times which is great. It's more trying to work around what they've done so far and routines established, yet the fact it looks like chaos to me! I think i'm going to have to implement alot of my own
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s / routines simply because i can't get my head around how it works at the moment - which is sayign sometimes as after a year of solely doing KS1 / FS supply, this is the first planning / timetable i've felt like this about.
i got loads of help from my regular supply school today, got their overall plans and they showed me the stuff from DFES about EAL children, the new phonics guidance, so when I sit down to do this again on friday, hopefully it will be better.