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Children's early cognitive skills should be prioritised to close the disadvantage gap

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

| Nursery World

Early years services must prioritise children’s cognitive development to combat income-related learning gaps, an early intervention charity has warned.

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.

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.

Disadvantage gap will take 'more than 100 years' to close

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Wednesday, July 25, 2018

| Nursery World

Children must be given equal access to high quality early years provision to tackle educational inequality, a leading think-tank has said.

Early years experts weigh up the revised ELGs

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Monday, July 9, 2018

| Nursery World

Now that the revised Early Learning Goals are finally out, we asked an expert in each area of learning to give their initial thoughts.

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

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Thursday, July 5, 2018

| Nursery World

Early Education says that the Government’s revision of the Early Learning Goals has far wider implications and is in effect a re-write of the whole EYFS 'by the back door'.

Damning report finds Reception Baseline not fit-for-purpose, unethical and damaging

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Wednesday, July 4, 2018

| Nursery World

The Reception Baseline is ‘flawed, unjustified and wholly unfit for purpose’, according to a report by a leading educational research body.

New Early Learning Goals released, as autumn pilot confirmed

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Friday, June 22, 2018

| Nursery World

Twenty-five schools in England will take part in a pilot of the revised Early Learning goals for the end of the Reception Year.

Early Learning Goals group ‘unrepresentative’

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Monday, June 11, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has come under fire after a Freedom of Information request revealed little early years sector representation among those involved in reviewing the EYFS early learning goals.

Reception baseline trial will take place in September

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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

| Nursery World

A trial of the new Reception baseline will go ahead with a number of schools in the autumn.

Government mental health plans ‘failing a generation’ of children

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Wednesday, May 9, 2018

| Nursery World

The Government has come under fire from both the education and health select committees of MPs, who say that its flawed plans risk leaving hundreds of thousands of children without the care they need.

Halfon launches inquiry into impact of early years on later success

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

| Nursery World

MPs are to examine the role of early years education on a child’s life chances.

DfE launches schemes to support early language development

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Monday, April 30, 2018

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has launched two schemes to help close the ‘word gap' that exists between disadvantaged children and their peers at the age of five.

Teachers vote in favour of opposing the new Baseline

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Tuesday, April 3, 2018

| Nursery World

Teachers have voted in favour of campaigning against the Government's plans to introduce a new baseline assessment for four-year-olds.

France lowers statutory school starting age

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

| Nursery World

All children in France will start nursery school education at the age of three from September 2019.

Scotland aims to boost role of outdoor learning for nursery-age children

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Friday, March 2, 2018

| Nursery World

The Scottish Government has pledged more than £860,000 to boost outdoor learning in the early years.

Campaigners publish case against the baseline

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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

| Nursery World

A coalition of educational experts, teachers and parents is calling for the Government to abandon plans for a new baseline for four-year-olds.

Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

| Nursery World

More than 1,700 academics, Reception and nursery teachers, early years practitioners, parents, headteachers, union leaders, and MPs have signed a letter expressing concern about Ofsted’s Bold Beginnings report.

Ofsted chief 'taken aback' by criticism of Reception report

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

| Nursery World

Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman has hit back at critics of the inspectorate’s ‘Bold Beginnings’ report.

Ofsted’s Reception report ‘narrow and political’

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Monday, December 11, 2017

| Nursery World

The publication of Ofsted’s Reception year report ‘Bold Beginnings’ has been met with dismay by some teachers and early years experts, particularly those concerned about the push of more formal learning from Key Stage 1 into the EYFS.

DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline

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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has put the contract out to tender for a supplier to develop, pilot and oversee the Reception baseline.

Government announces new English Hubs to improve reception children's literacy

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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

| Nursery World

A national network of English Hubs to improve children's early language and literacy are to be created by the Government.

Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

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Monday, October 2, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government’s decision to bring back a baseline assessment in Reception, just two years after it was forced to scrap the previous attempt, is a controversial one (see Analysis, page 14).

Changes to early years goals and Profile planned

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Friday, September 15, 2017

| Nursery World

The Government is proposing to revise the Early Learning Goals, and to cut the number that are assessed in the EYFS Profile.

New baseline check for Reception and revised early learning goals

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

| Nursery World

Education secretary Justine Greening has confirmed that there will be a new baseline measure brought into Reception from 2020, and early learning goals will be made 'clearer'.

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Children's early cognitive skills should be prioritised to close the disadvantage gap

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

Ofsted calls for early years experts

Disadvantage gap will take 'more than 100 years' to close

Early years experts weigh up the revised ELGs

Call for major overhaul of ELGs with early years experts

Damning report finds Reception Baseline not fit-for-purpose, unethical and damaging

New Early Learning Goals released, as autumn pilot confirmed

Early Learning Goals group ‘unrepresentative’

Reception baseline trial will take place in September

Government mental health plans ‘failing a generation’ of children

Halfon launches inquiry into impact of early years on later success

DfE launches schemes to support early language development

Teachers vote in favour of opposing the new Baseline

France lowers statutory school starting age

Scotland aims to boost role of outdoor learning for nursery-age children

Campaigners publish case against the baseline

Campaigners against formal learning in Reception call for controversial report to be withdrawn

Ofsted chief 'taken aback' by criticism of Reception report

Ofsted’s Reception report ‘narrow and political’

DfE invites bids to develop and run £10m Reception baseline

Government announces new English Hubs to improve reception children's literacy

Baseline providers give views on form of new assessment

Changes to early years goals and Profile planned

New baseline check for Reception and revised early learning goals

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