The Early Years Curriculum

The children enjoyed observing the building site, taking photos and using it to inspire their play
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EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… a building site

Practice
Millie’s Garden involves the children in composting and even has a compost toilet
Features

EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Nothing wasted

Practice
The first part of Julie Mountain's A New Vision for Outdoors EYFS Essentials series
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Discover our new series of EYFS Essentials training videos

Equipment & Resources
Early years settings are invited to take part in No Pens Day Wednesday, which takes place on 24 November this year
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Early years settings invited to take part in No Pens Day Wednesday

Resources
Practitioners must know the value of digital play, and learning that combines both physical and digital resources
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Curriculum - In focus… Technology

Practice
Listening to and making music helps children to express their emotions and self-regulate
Features

Music in The Early Years - Strike a chord

Practice
The trajectory scheme relates to how objects move through the air, fall and land
Features

Essential Resources: Trajectory Scheme - On the move

Practice
Lorna Wigley
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Nursery Management: Embedding the revised EYFS - What matters

Management
Creating the museum enabled the children to use a variety of tools and skills
Features

EYFS Activities - We’ve explored… fairies

Let’s Explore
Practitioners should note the places where talk happens between children
Features

EYFS Activities - An A to Z of learning: T is for talk

Activities
One concern raised is that the framework’s approach to reading is too simplistic and phonics-based
Features

Best Practice - War of words

Practice
Carol Payne: 'Support for speaking and understanding language must play a central role in any new early years initiative'
News

'Funding for children's speech and language has been sorely lacking'

Policy & Politics
Children starting school this year have to take tests in English and Maths before the October half-term PHOTO Adobe Stock
News

Teachers brand new tests for four- and five-year-olds 'a waste of time'

Provision
A render of the 'pre-walker and toddler zone' at the Young V&A, the new name for the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, which is to reopen after a redesign and refurbishment in 2023 PHOTO V&A
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Young V&A will ‘celebrate play’

Families
Small-world play offers the opportunity to reflect both familiar environments and those beyond personal experience
Features

Revised EYFS - In focus… A sense of place

Practice
Early mark making is the beginning of children’s journey to becoming confident writers when they are older
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EYFS Best Practice - All about… mark making

Practice

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