Advice about planning in the Early Years Foundation Stage remains one of the most common searches on our editorial database. The EYFS guidance has rightly placed an emphasis on planning around the individual child and children's interests, but what is hard for some practitioners to grasp is what this look likes 'on the ground'.
Help is at hand in this week's four-page special feature, 'Follow me!' by Di Chilvers, now an EYFS regional adviser (pages 18-21). It explains what happened when one Sheffield nursery let children's interests lead the curriculum planning. The huge benefits that flowed from this way of working are clear to see and will go a long way to removing practitioner concerns about planning around the individual child and what child-initiated learning really means in practice.
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