Nursery World - New Foundation Stage Profile results show rises in children's achievement

Five-year-olds living in the most deprived communities in England are beginning to catch up with children's achievement in other areas, this year's Foundation Stage Profile results show.

The figures, which are based on practitioners' observations at the end of the reception year, show that in every area of learning more children are working securely within the early learning goals, which means they are achieving six or more points out of nine in each scale.

Girls continue to do better than boys across all assessment areas in the Early Learning Goals.

Physical development is the early learning goal where the majority of children do best, with 89 per cent of children achieving six points or more.

The largest rise in achievement has been in the communication, language and literacy (CLL) goal for linking sounds and letters, where 71 per cent of all children are working securely, compared with 65 per cent last year.

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