Amanda Spielman said she ‘doesn’t think it is the case’ that handbooks associated with the upcoming Education Inspection Framework will encourage more formalised teaching in Reception.
Speaking exclusively to Nursery World at the National Day Nurseries Association conference last month, she said, ‘The [new early years] handbook very much builds on the EYFS’, while the ‘slight differences’ in the new schools handbook were ‘essentially about making sure that expectations that are right for Reception don’t accidentally bleed down into early years because we don’t do separate nursery inspections in schools. We don’t want nurseries to think they are expected to teach children to read and write.
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