These areas are: personal, social and emotional development; communication, language and literacy; mathematical development; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical development; and creative development.
'Each area of learning has a set of related Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Curriculum guidance for the Foundation Stage is intended to help practitioners plan to meet the diverse needs of all children so that most will achieve and some, where appropriate, will go beyond the ELGs by the end of the foundation stage.
'The Education Act 2002 extended the National Curriculum to include the Foundation Stage. The six areas of learning became statutory, and the Act also specified that there should be ELGs for each of the areas' - the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. Here are some organisations whose courses will aid early years professionals at work.
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