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Government rejects calls for more focus on play in new qualifications

Friday, July 12, 2013

| Nursery World

Despite a call for more emphasis on play-based learning from many respondents to the consultation on Early Years Educator qualifications, the Government has not amended the criteria.

Ofsted chief calls for review of early years assessment

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Friday, June 21, 2013

| Nursery World

Children could be assessed when they start school rather than at the end of Reception, Ofsted has suggested.

National Curriculum review - A springboard for success?

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Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Headteacher Alison Peacock argues that the teaching profession should respond courageously to the draft curriculum by enhancing it with a richly diverse and irresistible school curriculum that builds on high-quality early years practice.

Questions over funding for creationist nurseries

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Friday, May 3, 2013

| Nursery World

Creationist schools are being funded by the Government to provide free nursery education places, according to the British Humanist Association (BHA), Nursery World can exclusively reveal.

Northern Ireland education minister considers flexible school starting age

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

| Nursery World

School starting age campaigners in Northern Ireland have welcomed a commitment by the education minister John O'Dowd to look in to making the age summer-born children start school more flexible.

Government funds 5m early education study

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

| Nursery World

The first major early years research to begin since 1997 will look at the impact of free early education from the age of two on the development of thousands of children.

Union warns primary curriculum will 'turn out robots'

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

| Nursery World

The proposed primary national curriculum will hold back the progress of many children and label others as failures according to 102 individuals and organisations.

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Friday, March 8, 2013

| Nursery World

Tickets are selling fast for Nursery World's Two-year-Olds: Policy and Practice conference on 19 April, which features a fantastic line-up of early years experts all ready to share their knowledge and experience.

'More Great Childcare': a guide to the key points

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Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

The long-awaited Government response to Professor Cathy Nutbrown's review of early education and childcare qualifications goes further than responses to her recommendations.

'More Great Childcare': Schools to be able to take children from two

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Monday, January 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Primary schools will be encouraged to take children from the age of two, under new plans announced by the Government in its response to the Nutbrown Review.

Steiner Waldorf schools win victory on EYFS exemptions

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Friday, January 25, 2013

| Nursery World

Steiner kindergartens have been successful in achieving exemptions from those aspects of the Early Learning Goals in the EYFS that do not fit with the Steiner educational philosophy and ethos. The ruling applies to all Steiner settings.

Parents win deferred school entry for daughter

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Friday, January 11, 2013

| Nursery World

Parents of an August-born child have won a two-and-a-half year fight to defer her school entry until after her fifth birthday.

A new international manifesto for early childhood

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Friday, November 23, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years practitioners need to take a principled stand against political power that is not in the best interests of children, argue Marie Charlton and Richard House of Early Childhood Action

Campaigners launch 'alternative' EYFS

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Friday, October 26, 2012

| Nursery World

A group of academics and early years practitioners has published an 'alternative' EYFS.

Private schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

| Nursery World

Independent schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS from the end of this month.

Nearly half of all six-year-olds fail phonics reading check

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Just under six out of ten six-year-olds met the standard required by the new phonics reading check, the results of the first year of the test show.

Teachers call for end to 'pointless' reading check for six-year-olds

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Monday, September 3, 2012

| Nursery World

More than eight in ten Year 1 teachers in primary schools believe that the phonics check for six-year-olds should be scrapped, according to a survey by teaching unions.

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

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Monday, July 9, 2012

| Nursery World

Male reading volunteers in schools and parenting programmes that focus on fathers are among the recommendations of a major report into how to tackle the gap between boys and girls in reading.

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

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Monday, June 18, 2012

| Nursery World

Teaching unions have joined forces to protest against the phonics screening check, which all six-year-olds will have to take in the next few weeks.

Primary curriculum is 'fatally flawed', Gove adviser says

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

| Nursery World

A leading academic who advised the education secretary on plans to revise the primary curriculum has slammed the Government's proposals.

Re-discovered research says early school starting age 'harms children'

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

| Nursery World

A leading education campaigner and child psychologist is calling on the Prime Minister to intervene in the ongoing debate about the age at which children should start school.

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

| Nursery World

Head teachers have threatened to put an end to the phonics reading check for all six-year-olds, if it is seen to be politically motivated and used as a weapon to attack teachers.

The Early Years Foundation Stage - a timeline

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Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

It's fair to say the EYFS has generated more headlines than anything else published in Nursery World during the past few years.

Early years sector gives its verdict on the EYFS

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Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Aspects of the new framework such as the Prime and Specific areas are being welcomed, but there are reservations too, says Annette Rawstrone.

EYFS: Nurseries count the cost of DfE decision not to provide printed copies of the revised EYFS documents

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Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

Early years settings have raised concerns about the time and cost of printing the revised Early Years Foundation Stage and accompanying documents.

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Government rejects calls for more focus on play in new qualifications

Ofsted chief calls for review of early years assessment

National Curriculum review - A springboard for success?

Questions over funding for creationist nurseries

Northern Ireland education minister considers flexible school starting age

Government funds 5m early education study

Union warns primary curriculum will 'turn out robots'

Sign up for the best advice and information on caring for two-year-olds

'More Great Childcare': a guide to the key points

'More Great Childcare': Schools to be able to take children from two

Steiner Waldorf schools win victory on EYFS exemptions

Parents win deferred school entry for daughter

A new international manifesto for early childhood

Campaigners launch 'alternative' EYFS

Private schools will be able to opt out of the EYFS

Nearly half of all six-year-olds fail phonics reading check

Teachers call for end to 'pointless' reading check for six-year-olds

'Reading for pleasure' key to turning boys into readers

Teaching unions protest over phonics reading check

Primary curriculum is 'fatally flawed', Gove adviser says

Re-discovered research says early school starting age 'harms children'

Heads threaten to boycott phonics reading check

The Early Years Foundation Stage - a timeline

Early years sector gives its verdict on the EYFS

EYFS: Nurseries count the cost of DfE decision not to provide printed copies of the revised EYFS documents

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