If a centre with this history, reputation and strength can be threatened and undermined, no nursery school is safe, anywhere.

However practitioners should have an in depth knowledge of their key children, so that they can use the EYFS Framework to support and help plan opportunities and activities. We meet every week to discuss all things early years and primary and at every other meeting we choose a chapter to read and discuss. If I have not yet learned to love Darth Vader, I have at least made some useful discoveries while watching him play.G et al (2010:105) “we need to focus the curriculum on what is important for the children, the things that they need to be doing at this stage of their development”. If we don’t have a clear vision for EYFS assessment within our school or setting then practice can become weighed down by the burden of too many unnecessary written observations and captured images. The EYFS Statutory Framework obliges practitioners to provide experiences which are based on children’s interests.

I spent weeks compiling my Portfolio, cataloguing my Toys, books, games, puzzles and equipment; compiling cleaning rotas, putting together endless policies, parent information booklets, files for training, files for resource collections, working out a system for recording each child’s development, the list goes on and on. The contributors were all so keen to share their practice from the thick of it in the EYFS - and now you're all sharing it too. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. It’s easier to navigate, and shorter in word length to allow for more freedom to develop the right broad curriculum for the children you work with. That's an argument which opens a dangerous door a bit wider, letting in a very chill wind of hardship and destruction.Concentrating on the 0 to 3 age range, the book considers all relevant legislation such as Every Child Matters and the new Early Years Foundation Stage.

On the other hand many childminders have given up their jobs due to this and others who are thinking of this.

Please include your name, contact information, and the name of the title for which you would like more information. Although the EYFS is a helpful framework for thinking about the relationship between the child, the environment, and learning and teaching at the most significant time in a young child's life, there is limited guidance on how the principles of the EYFS and the areas of learning and development can be put into practice.