The Early Years Curriculum

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EYFS Activities - Supporting SEND…Social skills

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Essential Resources: Containing Scheme - Going all in

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Your outdoor calendar: December

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The children enjoyed observing the building site, taking photos and using it to inspire their play
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… a building site

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Millie’s Garden involves the children in composting and even has a compost toilet
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EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Nothing wasted

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The first part of Julie Mountain's A New Vision for Outdoors EYFS Essentials series
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Discover our new series of EYFS Essentials training videos

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Early years settings are invited to take part in No Pens Day Wednesday, which takes place on 24 November this year
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Early years settings invited to take part in No Pens Day Wednesday

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Practitioners must know the value of digital play, and learning that combines both physical and digital resources
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Curriculum - In focus… Technology

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Listening to and making music helps children to express their emotions and self-regulate
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Music in The Early Years - Strike a chord

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The trajectory scheme relates to how objects move through the air, fall and land
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Essential Resources: Trajectory Scheme - On the move

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Lorna Wigley
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Nursery Management: Embedding the revised EYFS - What matters

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Creating the museum enabled the children to use a variety of tools and skills
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… fairies

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Practitioners should note the places where talk happens between children
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EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: T is for talk

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One concern raised is that the framework’s approach to reading is too simplistic and phonics-based
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Best Practice - War of words

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Carol Payne: 'Support for speaking and understanding language must play a central role in any new early years initiative'
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'Funding for children's speech and language has been sorely lacking'

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Children starting school this year have to take tests in English and Maths before the October half-term PHOTO Adobe Stock
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Teachers brand new tests for four- and five-year-olds 'a waste of time'

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