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International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study: Why some children are running to catch up

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

| Nursery World

What can we learn from the OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study? Dr Martina Street explains criticisms of the research, findings, and what future studies should focus on

Using smartphones and tablets helps to develop early literacy

News

Friday, March 13, 2020

| Nursery World

An OECD study has found a link between five-year-olds’ use of digital devices and early literacy and working memory.

Reception baseline: 'children scared of getting it wrong', say teachers

News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

Teachers have reiterated a call for the Reception baseline to be scrapped, after a survey found that many believe it harms children and is not an accurate assessment.

Reception baseline provides 'accurate' assessment for children's progress

News

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has released new research claiming the Reception Baseline Assessment provides an accurate starting point for measuring children’s progress.

Call for rethink on draft EYFS review

News

Monday, January 20, 2020

| Nursery World

A survey of 3,000 practitioners from across the early years sector has found ‘extensive support’ for keeping the EYFS in its current form.

Schools asked to be 'early adopters' of revised Early Learning Goals

News

Monday, January 20, 2020

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has written to schools to invite them to adopt the revised Early Learning Goals from September, a year before they are due to become statutory.

EYFS consultation: Question of responsibility

Opinion

Monday, January 6, 2020

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Making ‘positive attachments’ to adults and ‘forming friendships with peers’ should not be part of the Early Learning Goals for children, says early years expert Anne O'Connor

Editor’s view - A puzzling situation

Opinion

Monday, November 25, 2019

| Nursery World

As the election draws near, policy on funding, training and revisions to the EYFS don’t make much sense

Boris Johnson would know more if he knew eight nursery rhymes by heart

Opinion

Friday, November 22, 2019

| Nursery World

Seeing Boris Johnson painfully mumble his way through The Wheels on the Bus while on the campaign trail, was a catalyst for many to lament that teaching children nursery rhymes had fallen out of fashion.

Practitioners must speak out about the failings of proposed ELGs

Opinion

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

| Nursery World

Early years consultant Helen Moylett is urging early years staff to make clear in the revised EYFS consultation the 'failings' of the proposed ELG for communication and language.