Children's minister Beverley Hughes said on Monday that she hadappointed Sir Jim Rose to review two of the goals centred on children'sability to write and use punctuation in simple sentences by the age offive.
A number of early years experts have criticised the goals as being settoo high for children.
In what will be seen by many as a climbdown by the Government, Ms Hughesacknowledged that, while the EYFS was 'a highly flexible framework',some parents and childcare providers felt that some 'specific parts wereincompatible' with their philosophy'.
Ms Hughes said, 'I have listened to these views, and while we believethe EYFS to be compatible with their philosophy, we have agreed that atime-limited process should be possible, so we can monitor theimplications of the EYFS in these particular settings and inform ourreview in 2010.'
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