The changes to the Government’s non-statutory curriculum guidance for the EYFS are minor. There have been no major changes to the curriculum guidance under the seven areas of learning and practitioners are being reassured that they will not need to alter any planning they have already done based on the September 2020 version.
Changes include:
Dr Julian Grenier, who developed the document in consultation with professionals, said, ‘Development Matters was originally road-tested with over 200 early years practitioners, who gave extensive feedback. Their input changed the document for the better.
‘Since then, over 3,000 schools have been “Early Adopters” of the revised EYFS. They have been overwhelmingly positive about the revised Development Matters, but their experience has highlighted some minor areas for improvement in the document. I would like to thank all those teachers and early years educators for being so generous in giving this time and sharing their expertise.’
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