Observation, Assessment & Planning

Features

Adult Role: Non-Verbal Communication - On show

Practice
Parents say that children settling in and making friends are important factors for children starting school
News

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
Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes
Opinion

The Government needs to catch up with early years professionals

Viewpoint
Observation enables practitioners to build a holistic picture of a child's needs, interests and development
Features

Observation - Take notice

Practice
Dr Grenier is head teacher at Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre
Features

EYFS Guidance: Effective Practice, Part 3 - Ticking over

Practice
The International Early Learning and Child Well-Being Study looks at children at age five
News

Low birth weight an indicator of delayed development at age five - study

Child Development
Learning stories are individual to the child and their family, and rely on practitioners tuning in to them
Features

Learning Journeys - All about you

Practice
Children are enabled to research their interests and explore them. Below: a bag from the fabric project
Features

EYFS Activities: An A to Z of learning - I is for… interest-led

Practice
Dr Alice Bradbury led the research
News

Autumn phonics check ‘pointless’ in pandemic, most teachers say

Child Development
Diversity was a key part of the Fostering Effective Early Learning Study
Features

EYFS guidance: Effective practice, part 1 - Starting points

Practice
The group wanted to build in aspects of learning that it feels are missing from the EYFS
Features

Curriculum - Goals of our own

Practice
More Than A Score campaigners have called for the Reception Baseline to be axed
News

Reception Baseline on hold until September 2021

Coronavirus
Margaret Greenwood MP, shadow schools minister
News

Labour schools shadow calls for baseline assessment to be cancelled

Observation, Assessment & Planning
Photos at N Family Club, N London Fields by Anna Gordon
Features

Building Your Curriculum: Knowledge, Part 1 - A matter of fact

Practice
Children are expected to take the Reception baseline in the first few weeks of starting school
News

Call to scrap the Reception Baseline

Reception Baseline

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