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EYFS Review 2011 Revealed
The Key points of the EYFS Review:
- The six areas of learning to be replaced with seven areas
- Three prime areas: communication and language; personal, social and emotional development; physical development
- Four other areas: literacy, mathematics, expressive arts and design, understanding the world
- The 69 Early Learning Goals covering the areas of learning should be reduced to 17
- Early years practitioners to carry out a child development check with children between 24 and 36 months of age
- A summary report of the check should be included in the ‘red book’, which all parents are given and kept alongside their child’s health records
- Early Years Foundation Stage Profile to be ‘slimmed down’ to take account of changes to the number of Early Learning Goals
- The EYFS Profile should include a simple scale to measure whether children’s learning and development at the age of five is emerging, expected or exceeding the Early Learning Goals
- Ministers should consider the findings of the Advisory Panel for Food and Nutrition and provide guidelines for healthy eating and nutritional requirements for under-fives to early years practitioners
- A graduate-led early years workforce should continue to be an aspiration for the Government
- Entry qualifications to early years should be of a high standard consistent with the NNEB qualification
- Communication and language should be given greater emphasis than literacy in young children’s development
More to follow when the full report is published!
Source: Nursery World