The Early Years Curriculum

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EYFS activities - Education for Sustainability: All equal

Practice
Rowlands Hill's Garden of Hope
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Gardening - Full of hope

Practice
Children are introduced to, watch and take part in ballets such as The Nutcracker
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Dance - Give it a whirl

Practice
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Adult Role: Non-Verbal Communication - On show

Practice
Guildford Nursery School: Books that reflected real life were part of the prompts to encourage storytelling
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Listening to Children - Tell us a story

Practice
Three-quarters of the primary schools surveyed said that children starting in Reception last September needed more help with language skills than in the previous academic year
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Coronavirus: ‘Concerning’ impact on language development and PSED among four-to five-year-olds

Child Development
Children starting school in September will be the first to take the Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA)
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Call to scrap the Reception Baseline intensifies

Early Years Curriculum
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Prepare for the revised EYFS with Nursery World's online conference

Careers & Training
Parents say that children settling in and making friends are important factors for children starting school
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Reception Baseline: Overwhelming majority of parents reject testing children starting school - survey

Reception Baseline
Nancy Stewart: 'The baseline idea is based on a mechanical, data-driven view of learning that assumes a school is like a factory'
Opinion

Baseline assessment – busting the ‘myth-busters'

Observation, Assessment & Planning
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Birth to 5 Matters experts hit back at criticism of guidance's stance on anti-racism by Conservative MPs

Review of The Early Years Foundation Stage
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New Birth to 5 Matters guidance to be published

Child Development
Children will be assessed at the start of the Reception year from September
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DfE confirms revised EYFS and Reception Baseline statutory from September

Review of The Early Years Foundation Stage
Caroline Wright: 'Children are at the centre of all we do'
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Interview - Caroline Wright, Early childhood director at Bright Horizons

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Essential Resources: Minibeasts - A bug’s life

Practice
Relationships that are warm and nurturing are vital to children’s PSED
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Revised EYFS - In focus… Personal, Social and Emotional Development

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