Nursery World - Enabling Environments: EYFS Principles

A primary school in County Durham has been embracing the principles
of the Early Years Foundation Stage - in a whole-school approach aimed
at more flexible learning for all ages. Marianne Sargent reports

When Foundation Stage teacher Tessa Fenoughty took over as head of a small rural primary school last September, she had a vision that would completely transform the way teachers and pupils work together.

'The attraction for me, with being the deputy head and Early Years Foundaton Stage (EYFS) leader in my previous job, was that I wanted to have a school where I could take the ethos of the early years with more flexible learning and implement it in a whole school and I knew a small school like this would have the ability to make that change quite quickly,' Ms Fenoughty explains.

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