Nursery World - Three-to-seven curriculum piloted

More than 40 schools and early years settings across Wales are due to start piloting the Foundation Phase for three- to seven-year-olds next month. The new framework, which takes a play-based approach to learning, was distributed to 41 settings last week. It contains guidelines and good practice to help Welsh practitioners establish a learning continuum for children from three to seven.

The new framework, which takes a play-based approach to learning, was distributed to 41 settings last week. It contains guidelines and good practice to help Welsh practitioners establish a learning continuum for children from three to seven.

Announcing the four-year pilots, Jane Davidson, minister for education and lifelong learning, said, 'Best practice in early years education, with a strong focus on all-round growth and development, will give children the best start in life and in particular, support those facing disadvantage and poverty.'

Tina Bruce, honorary visiting professor in Early Childhood Studies at London Metropolitan University, welcomed the Foundation Phase and 'any approach which emphasises in-service training of teachers in developing the curriculum, rather than a testing climate'.

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