Curriculum
Girls surpass boys in EYFS Profile scores
Girls continue to do better than boys in the early learning goals at the end of the reception year, according to the latest statistics from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results.
Figures published by the Department for Education show that girls continue to do better in all assessment scales, with the biggest gap in writing. This goal also had the lowest number of children working securely within it, with 65 per cent of children achieving six points or more in writing.
However, the number of children achieving a good level of development across the board is rising.
In 2010, 56 per cent of children achieved a good level of development - that is a score of six or more across the seven personal, social and emotional development and communication, language and literacy scales - compared with 52 per cent in 2009 and 49 per cent in 2008.
The assessment scales with the highest percentage of children working securely within the early learning goals were physical development (91 per cent) and personal, social and emotional development: dispositions and attitudes (91 per cent).
The achievement gap between the lowest 20 per cent of children and their peers has narrowed slightly throughout England by 1.2 percentage points since 2009.
The gap has narrowed in 117 local authority areas, widened in 32 local authority areas and stayed the same in three areas.
In three of the 13 assessment scales, there has been a decrease of one percentage point in the children working beyond the ELGs. This has been attributed to time taken to embed reporting.
According to the QCDA, monitoring processes are now more 'robust' than in previous years.
