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Baseline £10m contract goes to NFER despite protests over Reception assessment

Sunday, April 15, 2018

| Nursery World

The sector has expressed concern that the DfE is pressing ahead with plans for a Reception Baseline check following the news that NFER has been chosen to design and deliver the assessment.

Ofsted calls for early years experts

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Thursday, August 30, 2018

| Nursery World

Ofsted is calling for academics, researchers and practitioners to apply to take part in a new early years forum to debate early years teaching and practice.

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

| Nursery World

Malorie Blackman, who has won many awards for writing books for teenagers, is the new Children's Laureate.

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

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Monday, October 8, 2018

| Nursery World

Local primary school children are contributing ideas to the multi-million-pound revamp of the V&A Museum of Childhood in plans to make it the ‘world’s most joyful museum for children’.

Changes to Early Learning Goals 'criminal' says early years expert

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Friday, November 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Children are being steered towards pleasing teachers over developing a genuine love of learning under proposed reforms to the Early Learning Goals, early years experts said yesterday.

New award champions books for babies and under-fives

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

| Nursery World

A new book prize for the early years has been launched.

Finland's early years curriculum grows across the globe

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Thursday, February 14, 2019

| Nursery World

An early years approach based on Finland’s educational system is expanding across the world

Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry

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Friday, March 1, 2019

| Nursery World

The move by the Department for Education (DfE) to press ahead with the Reception baseline and invite schools to take part in a trial of the assessment, starting in the autumn, has been met with frustration from the early years sector.

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

| Nursery World

Changes to the EYFS and new Ofsted framework are based on 'ideological and ill-informed' reasoning, early years experts warned at a conference last week.

Hundreds of children and parents march against Reception baseline

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

| Nursery World

More than 200 four-year-olds, their parents and teachers marched to Downing Street today demanding the Government halt its plan to test children when they first start school.

Schools start to prepare children for SATs ‘as young as three’, report claims

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

| Nursery World

Some schools start to prepare children for SATs from when they are in nursery, according to research on the impact of testing on primary-age children.

Teachers unsure if new Early Learning Goals will prepare children for KS1

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Friday, October 25, 2019

| Nursery World

Schools that piloted the revised EYFS Profile thought the new Early Learning Goals (ELG) were clearer, but were unsure as to whether they would better prepare children for the next stage of their education.

EYFS consultation proposals don't go far enough

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Friday, November 1, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government consultation on the EYFS incorporates changes to both the educational programmes and the Early Learning Goals (ELGs), but these fall well short of early years experts' expectations for the framework.

Coronavirus: EYFS requirements and ratios to be relaxed

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Thursday, April 16, 2020

| Nursery World

Early years settings will no longer be required to meet the learning and development requirements of the EYFS or staff:child ratios, in temporary measures to be put in place during the coronavirus outbreak.

New Birth to 5 Matters guidance to be published

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

| Nursery World

The new Birth to 5 Matters guidance document is being launched by the Early Years Coalition in a live Facebook stream, tonight.

Campaign calls for EYFS to include sensory food play

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Friday, October 21, 2022

| Nursery World

Baby food brand Ella’s Kitchen has launched a national campaign calling on the Government to improve childhood nutrition by introducing sensory food play in all early years settings.

Training scheme boosts speech skills

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Monday, June 29, 2015

| Nursery World

A national early language training programme has been successful in boosting the communication skills of two to three-year-olds.

Takeaway ideas tantalise childcarers

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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

| Nursery World

Hundreds of early years practitioners in Luton, Bedfordshire, exchanged ideas on best practice and showcased early learning initiatives at a networking day organised by the council.

More children passing phonics test

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Friday, September 26, 2014

| Nursery World

There has been a five percentage point increase in the number of six-year-olds passing the phonics reading check.

Sector urges re-think on plans for 'harmful' baseline assessment

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Monday, November 3, 2014

| Nursery World

The early years sector is calling on the childcare and education minister to reconsider plans for a baseline assessment for reception pupils.

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

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Thursday, November 20, 2014

| Nursery World

A more detailed breakdown of the EYFS Profile statistics, published today, shows that the gap has widened between children with special educational needs and their peers.

Online resource promoting writing focuses on boys

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

| Nursery World

A new online resource bank brings together guidance on writing in the early years with new material to support the needs of boys.

EYFS boosts rise in quality provision, says Ofsted report

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

| Nursery World

The number of nurseries and childminders judged good or outstanding has risen significantly since the introduction of the EYFS, according to a report by Ofsted on its impact.

Free care offered to two-year-olds

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

| Nursery World

Free part-time, high-quality childcare for two-year-olds is to be the centrepiece of a 46m initiative for children aged nought to three unveiled in the Welsh Assembly government's budget last week.

Sector responds to free places for poorest two-year-olds

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

| Nursery World

All the most disadvantaged two-year-olds are to be offered free part-time nursery places as part of a 'fairness premium', deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced last Friday.

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Baseline £10m contract goes to NFER despite protests over Reception assessment

Ofsted calls for early years experts

Malorie Blackman named as Children's Laureate

Children join in re-design of V&A Museum of Childhood

Changes to Early Learning Goals 'criminal' says early years expert

New award champions books for babies and under-fives

Finland's early years curriculum grows across the globe

Baseline pilot go-ahead sparks outcry

EYFS 'not recognised' in new Ofsted school documents

Hundreds of children and parents march against Reception baseline

Schools start to prepare children for SATs ‘as young as three’, report claims

Teachers unsure if new Early Learning Goals will prepare children for KS1

EYFS consultation proposals don't go far enough

Coronavirus: EYFS requirements and ratios to be relaxed

New Birth to 5 Matters guidance to be published

Campaign calls for EYFS to include sensory food play

Training scheme boosts speech skills

Takeaway ideas tantalise childcarers

More children passing phonics test

Sector urges re-think on plans for 'harmful' baseline assessment

Figures show wider gap in attainment for five-year-olds with SEN

Online resource promoting writing focuses on boys

EYFS boosts rise in quality provision, says Ofsted report

Free care offered to two-year-olds

Sector responds to free places for poorest two-year-olds

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