Nursery World - The Foundation Stage Profile

The Foundation Stage Profile is a way of 'summing up' the accumulated observations and knowledge of the whole child, in relation to stepping stones and early learning goals contained in the Foundation Stage curriculum. It is intended to show what the child can do in all areas of learning at the end of the Foundation Stage, based entirely on formative records. Scales

Scales

The profile comprises 13 scales across the six areas of learning: Personal, social and emotional development

* Dispositions and attitudes

* Social development

* Emotional development Communication, language and literacy

* Language for communication and thinking

* Linking sounds and letters

* Reading

* Writing Mathematical development

* Number as labels and for counting

* Calculating

* Shape, space and measures

Knowledge and understanding of the world

Physical development

Creative development

Points

There are nine points within each assessment scale. Points 1 to 3 describe children who are still progressing towards the early learning goals and are based mainly on the stepping stones. Points 4 to 8 relate to the early learning goals, and point 9 describes a child who is working beyond the level of the early learning goals. To be assessed at point 9, a child must have achieved points 1 to 8.

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