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29 June 2024
Learning rhymes and playing rhyming games in Early Years ticks many developmental boxes. It also helps children to build confidence and be curious about the world, explains poet Jane Newberry……
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Maria Kay highlights the close relationship between music and literacy in the early years, and suggests simple rhythm games to help you develop children’s skills. Usha Goswami, a professor of…
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Early educators can support young children’s development by teaching them how to be more aware of their feelings and actions. This is according to research underpinning the Education Endowment Foundation’s…
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The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) has released the assessment and reporting arrangements for the reception baseline assessment (RBA) for the 2024/25 academic year. This statutory assessment applies to maintained…
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The DfE has opened a consultation on proposals to strengthen the EYFS safeguarding requirements and make them more comprehensive for early years providers. This is to ensure that all children are kept…
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We all live our lives via a series of routines. We get up at a specific time each day, put the bins out on a set day each week and…
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What schools, registered early years providers and childminders need to know about delivering the early years foundation stage (EYFS), and Ofsted inspections under the education inspection framework (EIF) guidance document…
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The guide for local authorities and schools submitting early years foundation stage profile data for 2024 has been updated. The guide explains how local authorities and schools should submit data…
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The beliefs and values of the world’s religions and cultures are expressed in many ways, including through festivals and celebrations. Whether they relate to rites of passage, the seasons, living…
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The Standards and Testing Agency had planned to have children answer some reception baseline assessment (RBA) questions on a touchscreen device from this September. However, the STA has confirmed the…
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Sand and water are wonderful mediums to use to develop children’s maths knowledge, skills and understanding. Playing with them involves, amongst other things, investigating, experimenting, constructing and problem-solving – and,…
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To enable children in Early Year settings to develop early scientific skills, we need to equip them with the correct language. Widening their scientific vocabulary will facilitate their EYFS science…
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