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The Government needs to catch up with early years professionals

Monday, March 22, 2021

| Nursery World

Early years assessment needs rethinking in light of the pandemic's effects, say Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes, Dr Siew-Fung Lee and Dr Diana Sousa of UCL Institute of Education.

Playing and learning

Opinion

Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Practitioners must protect play’s central role in early years learning and development, and watch out for bad policy and practice, says early years expert Marjorie Ouvry

Re-examine the baseline

Opinion

Monday, January 26, 2015

| Nursery World

How, why and when we should assess young children's learning is once more a matter for debate in English policy.

Literacy and play for all

Opinion

Monday, July 8, 2019

| Nursery World

The developmental importance of play needs to be recognised beyond the EYFS and into children’s subsequent years at school

Confusion over equality in the revised EYFS

Opinion

Monday, June 2, 2014

| Nursery World

Early Years Equality has been inundated by calls from settings concerned that their equalities responsibilities have been diluted in the recently revised EYFS.

A new conversation has begun!

Opinion

Friday, October 14, 2022

| Nursery World

The arena of Early Childhood Education (ECE) has always been, and continues to be, an intense area of discussion and debate, says James Hempsall, founder of hey!

Editor's View - Will the UK be able to maintain practice it has learned from abroad?

Opinion

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

| Nursery World

Fundamental change is on its way in the UK education system, with all schools, including primaries, able to apply for academy status, the door opened for parents and other groups to set up 'free' schools (News, page 4), and early years targets starting to be identified for cuts (News, page 6).

Editor's view - Tablets of stone?

Opinion

Monday, September 21, 2015

| Nursery World

Debate about the role of ICT in the early years is surely some of the most polarised around, as our head-to-head between Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith and Dr Richard House shows (see pages 14-16).

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.

Editor’s view - Adopting a position

Opinion

Monday, February 3, 2020

| Nursery World

Primary schools are being given the chance to adopt the revised EYFS a year early, while pre-school providers must wait and see

Too much, too soon

Opinion

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

| Nursery World

It is astonishing that the unrealistic writing targets in the EYFS haven't been amended, says Sue Palmer

Don't let assessment drive the curriculum

Opinion

Monday, January 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Getting the right balance between assessment and curriculum in the EYFS is tricky - but who said it was going to be easy? Dr Julian Grenier and Lydia Cuddy-Gibbs, head of early years at Ark, give their views