CASE STUDY Denise's story As a starting point, I have identified four fundamental values of my programme which represent my philosoply and my unde standings of the interets or uns for community in which I work The overall protramme and the children relate back to these am trying to see ute child iss a w le person a not worrying much h developmental area. Instead I am looking their skills, interevu, dispositions and needs This Lakes me away from u narrow view that limits the child as a positive whole this culturally centre ithe seeing me reflect better that child's culture, first language and liome exper cnces I have become clearer that it is not une contentof the activities the programme oflers that is important but the tury they are oflered, how adults and peer inter within them and how this interaction is experienced by the ch!ldren, making them experiences rather than acititiei The way I am planning now allows me to focus on what children ure really learning, as well as supporting individual staff to input directly au and when they can with the children. This method helps acknowledge that teaching strateg routines and rules are a vital part of the learning environment part of what underpins all that happens l now write the overall plan so it include stall timetables, routines, the location of experiences, our objectives, with space for possible groups and modifications Groups and modifications are written onto the plan as part of the evaluation process. Individual children have plans written for them, with objectives, strategies and experiences relating back to ule underlying values of the programme. One xperience in the overall programme may meet several children's plans due to our teaching strategies For example, one of ue underlying tulues of my programme is for children to understand that their actions have an effect on ouhers and take responsibility for these consequenc lo achieve this clildren need to have the following skills or dispositionn empathy, communication and self belief lo develop or enhance these skills or dispositions, on term otjectives can be identified that lead children to develop or practice cooperation, problem solving, concentration, conflict resolution, impulse control, resilience, understanding ano acceptance of difference Plans for an individual child will redecu this objective, us t will parts of Ute overall prognumme. It might be that the overall plan has an objective that relates to this underlying value and three of the children do too, but the identified skills or dispositions will be different The experiences offered will be across programme but the way they are implemented with each child will depend on the object res we are focusing on. How I would like it to work A basic programme would be planned based on our knowledge of where children are and where we would like them to be going, reflecting staff interests and strengths, and involving all staff. The plan would be written on an(electronic) whiteboard that could be added to during the daylweek by staf, children and parents, including modifications, addiuons and evaluations by all or any parues. This could then be printed from the whiteboard and would be our documentation. Staff would maintain records on children from observations, overviews, individual plans and information from meetings with parents. We would give more ume to the quality of relationships, spending more time with children and reducing surveillance of them. There would be ongoing evaluation and modification of the planning process involving all the participants in the centre.