Nursery World - DfE-funded website still fails to include all EYFS areas of learning despite amendment

Oak National Academy has updated its website to more accurately reflect the EYFS, however it only lists five of the seven areas of learning, leaving early years experts confused at such a change.

Oak National Academy has amended its website following sector feedback, but has not included all areas of learning

Just over a month ago, Dr Sue Allingham, Sue Cowley and Ruth Swailes called upon Oak National Academy, which provides online teaching resources, to update its website to accurately reflect the EYFS areas of learning.

The trio said they had repeatedly asked Oak National Academy, which is partly funded by the Department for Education (DfE), to amend its website.

At the time, the EYFS section of the Oak National Academy website listed an incorrect set of ‘subjects’ – literacy, maths, music, RSHE (PSHE) and understanding the world.

At the end of September, Oak National Academy told Nursery World that ‘due to technical reasons with the website platform design, it could not easily change categories and terms on its website.’

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