Nursery World - Girls surpass boys in EYFS Profile scores

Girls continue to do better than boys in the early learning goals at the end of the reception year, according to the latest statistics from the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results.

Figures published by the Department for Education show that girls continue to do better in all assessment scales, with the biggest gap in writing. This goal also had the lowest number of children working securely within it, with 65 per cent of children achieving six points or more in writing.

However, the number of children achieving a good level of development across the board is rising.

In 2010, 56 per cent of children achieved a good level of development - that is a score of six or more across the seven personal, social and emotional development and communication, language and literacy scales - compared with 52 per cent in 2009 and 49 per cent in 2008.

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