Rainbow Staff Meeting November 2018 Topics include parent consultations, attachment theory and key worker system

1. STAFF MEETING
1 4 T H N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 8

2. TOPICS
• True False Quiz
• Role of a keyworker
• Preparing for Parent meetings
• Some reminders and new information

3. TRUE FALSE QUIZ….

5. WHAT IS ATTACHMENT?

6. ATTACHMENT
The need for babies and children to form attachments
appears to be instinctive, with early ties forming the
template for children's later relationships.
‘Attachment is central to our very survival, and what we
are beginning to realise is that it is also central to our
wellbeing'

7. ATTACHMENT TIMELINE
• Shortly after birth - process of forming an attachment begins
• Around 6 weeks - babies show preferences for human faces and voices
• By three months - babies show recognition and pleasure when they see their
principal carers while still accepting unfamiliar faces.
• 7-8 months - babies have formed specific attachments and will actively protest by
crying or turning away if a stranger approaches them.

8. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF A
KEYWORKER?

9. WHAT IS A KEYWORKER?
• The forming of special relationships between adults and children in the nursery setting
• designed to bring the building of individual relationships into group care
• an emotional relationship as well as organisational duties

10. KEY WORKER AT RAINBOW
• Home visits
• Develop relationship with children and parents – know the parents names!
• Keep the how to care for me sheet up to date, and share its information with all staff
• Know ‘everything’ about your key child (likes dislikes, smells, temperament)
• Be the ‘go to’ person for your key children and brief other (and cover) staff about ch’s
needs
• Track your children’s day, and collect information about what’s happened to them
• Change nappies, and support toileting transitioning
• Check supplies (spare clothes, nappies, wipes)
• Observe children regularly, and collect observations from others
• Build ‘progress’ portfolio
• Conduct summative assessments (x 3 times a year)
• Prepare are deliver parent-meetings

11. ROLE OF THE KEYWORKER
The Key Person meets any physical needs, such as
changing nappies, feeding or cuddling at nap time, and in
this way they begin to build a secure attachment with the
young child

12. WHO ARE YOUR
KEY CHILDREN
M A K E A L I S T N O W !

14. TOUCHING YOUR KEY-CHILDREN

15. HOW TO PREPARE…

16. PARENT MEETINGS
• All parents will be encouraged to have a meeting
• Sign up sheets for each colour group on the door of each unit
• Colour group leader + Team leader

17. EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE

18. OBSERVATIONS

19. UPDATE SUMMATIVE RECORDS

20. ANNOTATED WORK/PHOTOS
12/1/17 – Ori selected colours independently at the writing table without
adult support, she took a piece of paper and began drawing

21. PARENT MEETING PREP SHEETS

22. 5 PHOTOS ON A PAGE WITH
CAPTIONS
• Pictures should should show engagement at different times (eg – inside, outside,
free play, adult initiated activity, meal time and care routines, playing alone and
interacting with others) and across different developmental areas (physical, language
development, maths/reasoning, creativity dev, KUW)
• Pictures should focus on what the children do
• Captions should link to development and have a date
• Use an App to arrange the photos, print them from your phone by connecting to the
office printer, and handwrite the captions

23. Niv selected the tubing, took it to the craft table
and said “telephone line”. 14/3/18
Colin played for 20 minutes alone with with cars,
organising them by colour, and then crashing them into
each other, saying “boom” 5/4/18

24. REMINDERS..
• Garden zones
• Shared areas
• Setting up play spaces – all surfaces
• Attendance and holidays
• Bonus related to attendance
• Lates – 1:5 ratio, Victoria, Sivan – what is everyone else doing?