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Early years settings told they can relax ratios as Covid deemed an 'exceptional circumstance'

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has confirmed that early years settings struggling with staff absences due to Covid can relax their ratios in line with the EYFS.

Early years settings in Wales prepare for the roll out of the new national curriculum

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Friday, April 1, 2022

| Nursery World

Wales’ education minister Jeremy Miles has praised the work of early years settings as they prepare for the roll-out of the new national curriculum for three-to-16-year-olds.

DfE keeping Reception Baseline for September under review

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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

| Nursery World

Controversial plans to test four-year-olds in English and maths when they start school in September are ‘under regular review’ by the Department for Education, in light of the disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis.

Child-led approach to learning to read is blamed for illiteracy

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

| Nursery World

Primary schools are 'breeding illiteracy' in children by allowing a 'child-led' approach to learning and because they are failing to use synthetic phonics repeatedly, according to the right-wing think-tank Centre for Policy Studies.

Academy chain founder Ofsted appointment challenged

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Thursday, July 7, 2016

| Nursery World

The education secretary’s favoured candidate for the Ofsted top job has been rejected by a committee of MPs, throwing the appointment into jeopardy.

Education policies: Current certainties to new visions

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Monday, May 4, 2015

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A new book looks at the ways we teach children and how we assess their progress - and sets out a vision for improving our methods. One of the book's editors, Dominic Wyse, explains.

League tables loom for EYFS Profile results

News

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

| Nursery World

Early Years Foundation Stage Profile results are to be published by school for the first time, under proposals in the Department for Education's five-year business plan.

Re-examine the baseline

Opinion

Monday, January 26, 2015

| Nursery World

How, why and when we should assess young children's learning is once more a matter for debate in English policy.

DfE invites proposals for Reception Baseline Assessments

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Monday, October 6, 2014

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The Department for Education (DfE) is inviting proposals from organisations to design and deliver Reception Baseline Assessments to schools from September 2015.

Gap likely to grow in social mobility 'coldspots'

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Thursday, February 21, 2019

| Nursery World

The Government’s shift in focus towards childcare as a means of getting parents back to work, away from good quality early years education, is affecting settings’ quality and impacting social mobility, a cross-government report warns.

DfE promotes baseline assessment in new video

News

Thursday, February 28, 2019

| Nursery World

The Department for Education has uploaded a new YouTube video on the Reception baseline assessment explaining how it will work.

Charities unite to call for action on children's SLCN

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

| Nursery World

Sixty charities and organisations have joined forces to urge the Prime Minister to do more to improve support for the 1.4 million children with speech, language and communication needs.

Self-regulation dropped from Reception baseline

News

Friday, March 15, 2019

| Nursery World

Self-regulation has been removed from the Reception baseline assessment, following a trial in schools.

Prime areas not in 'reception baseline' criteria criticised by many

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Monday, June 2, 2014

| Nursery World

More details of the new baseline assessment that children will be expected to take at the start of Reception have been set out.

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.

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'.