From September next year, early years settings around the country will be offering funded places for targeted two-year-olds - an exciting prospect, but one that also presents challenges. To help practitioners prepare to offer early education to this age group, we at Cheshire East Early Years and Childcare Team have written a good practice guide, 'Are you ready for me - now I'm 2?'
The main aim of the guide is to promote high-quality provision and practice that is age-appropriate and so ensure, as early years author Jennie Lindon once put it, 'that two-year-olds don't end up as square pegs jammed into threeor four-year-old holes' (What does it mean to be two? page 2). We wanted too to celebrate the uniqueness of being two and ensure that the voice of the child is really heard - so decided to present the good practice ideas as if written by the child itself.
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