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Ofsted: best practice guide - Planning for challenge

Monday, April 15, 2019

| Nursery World

Bristol-based setting The Nursery has won praise for its approach to planning to best challenge children and taking into account their next steps. By Hannah Crown

Nursery Management: Inspection - In the frame

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| Nursery World

What is new in Ofsted’s recently published Education Inspection Framework, and what are the implications for managers in the PVI sector? Former council early years leader and consultant Pennie Akehurst reports

Ofsted: best practice guide - Monitoring and Evaluation

Features

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

| Nursery World

In the first of a series presenting models of best practice for inspection, we look at monitoring and evaluation processes at Poppy and Jack’s. By Hannah Crown

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 12: Top Ofsted issues

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Monday, February 18, 2019

| Nursery World

To round off our series on common themes in Ofsted inspections, Pennie Akehurst presents the top ten problem areas from 2017-2018

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 11: Teaching and Learning and the New Inspection Framework

Features

Monday, December 10, 2018

| Nursery World

Former head of early years Pennie Akehurst looks forward to the Education Inspection Framework, set to launch in September 2019

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 10: Monitoring and Evaluation – A rounded view

Features

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

| Nursery World

When it comes to vulnerable children, how should settings approach areas such as assessment and planning and performance management, asks Pennie Akehurst

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 9: Partnerships

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Monday, October 15, 2018

| Nursery World

With the 30 hours leading to more children attending multiple settings, Pennie Akehurst finds the common areas settings can improve on when it comes to working together

Unpicking Ofsted reports, part 8: vulnerable children

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Monday, September 17, 2018

| Nursery World

When it comes to vulnerable children, how should settings approach areas such as assessment and planning and performance management, asks Pennie Akehurst

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 7: Quality of teaching and learning

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Monday, August 20, 2018

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst, a former council head of early years and childcare, finds the common reasons why settings fall down on teaching and learning

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 6: meeting children’s needs 2

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Monday, July 23, 2018

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst asks Fiona Holiday, a certified therapeutic play practitioner, what must be in place to meet the needs of children and get the best out of them

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 5: meeting children’s needs - The best we can be

Features

Monday, June 25, 2018

| Nursery World

When it comes to meeting the needs of children, Pennie Akehurst’s analysis of Ofsted inspection reports finds that meeting the needs of staff is the first step

Your guide to the latest early years documents

Features

Friday, June 1, 2018

| Nursery World

Are you using the most recent Government documents giving advice on early years and safeguarding legislation?

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 4: A New Evaluation Framework - Self-assessment

Features

Monday, May 28, 2018

| Nursery World

Following her article last month on monitoring and evaluation systems, Pennie Akehurst looks at how to develop a new system of self-evaluation

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 3: Monitoring And Self-Evaluation

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Monday, April 16, 2018

| Nursery World

Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, looks at how settings can replace the recently axed Ofsted self-evaluation form

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 2: Performance Management Systems - A poor performance

Features

Monday, March 19, 2018

| Nursery World

In the second part of this series, Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, finds some settings fall short on performance management

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 1: Safeguarding - falling short

Features

Monday, February 19, 2018

| Nursery World

In the first of a new series looking at common issues highlighted in Ofsted reports, Pennie Akehurst, former head of the Early Years and Childcare Service at Derbyshire County Council, discusses the areas where settings often fall down on safeguarding

Stepping out: Journal of a nursery founder

Features

Thursday, February 2, 2017

| Nursery World

In the second instalment of his monthly diary, Colin Eustice outlines his experience of registering a new nursery with Ofsted

Learning & Development: Inspections - Beyond Ofsted

Features

Monday, November 28, 2016

| Nursery World

A positive inspection is vital, but so too are other measures of effective provision. By Dr Julian Grenier

Nursery Management: References - An impossible requirement?

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Monday, March 21, 2016

| Nursery World

Ofsted wants nurseries to seek staff references – but an employer was recently sued for providing a negative one. Beena Nadeem investigates how settings can weigh up the options

Management - Assess for success

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Monday, November 30, 2015

| Nursery World

Ofsted has praised her ‘exemplary’ assessment and inclusion system – here, Lyndsey Murray, manager of St Richard’s Atherton Pre-School, shares her methods

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Ofsted: best practice guide - Planning for challenge

Nursery Management: Inspection - In the frame

Ofsted: best practice guide - Monitoring and Evaluation

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 12: Top Ofsted issues

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 11: Teaching and Learning and the New Inspection Framework

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 10: Monitoring and Evaluation – A rounded view

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 9: Partnerships

Unpicking Ofsted reports, part 8: vulnerable children

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 7: Quality of teaching and learning

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 6: meeting children’s needs 2

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, part 5: meeting children’s needs - The best we can be

Your guide to the latest early years documents

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 4: A New Evaluation Framework - Self-assessment

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 3: Monitoring And Self-Evaluation

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 2: Performance Management Systems - A poor performance

Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 1: Safeguarding - falling short

Stepping out: Journal of a nursery founder

Learning & Development: Inspections - Beyond Ofsted

Nursery Management: References - An impossible requirement?

Management - Assess for success

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