Nursery World - EYFS literacy goals and exemptions to be reviewed

The Government is to review two of the literacy Early Learning Goals and allow nurseries and childminders to apply to be exempt from specific parts of the EYFS on 'philosophical' grounds.

Children's minister Beverley Hughes said on Monday that she had appointed Sir Jim Rose to review two of the goals centred on children's ability to write and use punctuation in simple sentences by the age of five.

The two EYFS early learning goals under review are:

* Use their phonic knowledge to write simple regular words and make phonetically plausible attempts at more complex words

* Write their own names and other things as labels and captions and begin to form simple sentences, sometimes using punctuation

A number of early years experts have criticised the goals as being set too high for children to realistically achieve them.

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