Opinion: Editor's view - Why the 'Nappy Curriculum' nickname is getting irritating

Nursery World, 4 September 2008

The phrase 'Nappy Curriculum' has been all over the national press this week like a rash in that sensitive area!

Even the Times Educational Supplement is using the fatuous nickname in its coverage of what is the central framework for its readers teaching three- to five-year-olds - the Early Years Foundation Stage. Most national newspapers seem unaware that the Foundation Stage has been in existence for quite some time, and that the early learning goals are not a brand-new surprise sprung on an unsuspecting sector. Birth to Three Matters doesn't seem to have been on the radar either! There are...

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