Putting the EYFS Curriculum into Practice

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How and when you’ll be inspected by Ofsted depends on whether you’re on the childcare register or the early years register. there is a new focus on early language and extending vocabulary, with more examples on how to embed and develop vocabulary skills across all 7 areas, because this improves child development in a broad curriculum Dr Julian Grenier CBE is the headteacher of Sheringham Nursery School and Children's Centre. He was the lead writer of Development Matters (2021).

This book offers a step-by-step guide to implementing a play-based curriculum in Year 1 while fully achieving the National Curriculum objectives. The authors explore the key barriers and common pitfalls that often arise around this crucial transition, and show teachers how to successfully lead children from the Reception stage through Year 1 and to the subject-based teaching beyond. Providing practical advice and guidance for busy teachers, the authors clearly and concisely illustrate their methods with theory, personal stories and colourful photographs from transitional stories they have been a part of. Let Me Be Five shows teachers how to plan the curriculum in a way that builds on children’s experiences in the Early Years Foundation Stage and gives them meaningful contexts for learning. Including real-life case studies and views from parents and teachers, this book will give you the knowledge and confidence to plan a play-based curriculum, based on children’s interests and developmental needs that will enable every learner to thrive.

The early learning goals summarise the knowledge, skills and understanding that all young children should have gained by the end of the academic year in which they turn 5, the reception year. The following extracts from past early years teaching newsletters have a feature which supports your team dialogue around pedagogy and practice dilemmas and reflective practice. The goals are there to be used to assess children at the end of reception year, rather than for pre-school children. Changes to Development Matters: non-statutory curriculum guidance In the early years, you are often in a position where you are feeding children. How do you cope when you have a fussy or anxious eater? Development Matters is the non-statutory curriculum guidance for the new EYFS framework that everyone can use from September 2021. What the changes are Changes to the educational programmes

by Cathy Gunning What is reflective practice? Reading a book by Donald Schon early on in my career as a teacher opened my eyes to

Birth to 5 Matters: non-statutory guidance for the EYFS

By Debi Keyte-Hartland, Early Education Associate This article is based on one included in the Early Education Journal no 100. To access the full article There have been some minor changes to the safeguarding and welfare section, including a new requirement to promote the good oral health of children. What this means in practice Passionate Headteacher | Early Years Specialist | Wellbeing and Mental Health Champion | Lead Facilitator for Anti-Racist School Culture Transformation | Primary and Secondary Experienced | Proud father Professional Development can lead to improvements in quality. But, in practice, it doesn’t always succeed in that. Professional Development has to be planned carefully, delivered well and regularly evaluated. It needs to be seen as a year-round activity, not a one-off event. Lastly the authors stipulate that despite the ambitions of the EYFS, childminders have not been able to see the practical effect of this. It could be argued that there is too much paperwork involved for them within the EYFS. However there is evidence that most childminders have developed knowledge and understanding of how to put the EYFS into practice and use it to identify, plan and provide foe individual children’s needs in their care. On the other hand many childminders have given up their jobs due to this and others who are thinking of this. On one forum a childminder writes her views on the EYFS Curriculum and how she feels about it which can be accessed on