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26 March 2022
Developing a well organised domestic role play area is vital for supporting young children’s learning. It enables children to explore relationships and make sense of events and situations in their everyday lives.…
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Fine motor control and oral composition develop apace in the early years. However, the combination of complex skills required for writing is difficult to teach, and the writing ELG is…
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What is spatial reasoning? How do we develop young children’s spatial reasoning? The answers are in the Early Childhood Maths Group Toolkit which includes posters, videos, guidance and a learning…
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Early Years practitioner and EEF Specialist Fliss James unpicks the evidence around how to ensure that interactions with young pupils are of the highest possible quality. Mere moments after birth,…
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Effective practice in school can compensate for children who have missed out on early language opportunities at home Research makes a link between the amount and quality of conversation at home and…
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The EEF’s Early Years Specialist, Fliss James, emphasises the importance of high-quality interactions for young pupils in the wake of the pandemic. The scene is a bustling nursery classroom in east…
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By ensuring high-quality phonics teaching the government wants to improve literacy levels to: give all children a solid base upon which to build as they progress through schoolhelp children to…
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The scale of the word gap and the impact of Covid on language developments remainsa very serious issue. School teachers and leaders have known for years that the language and…
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Ofsted have released a recorded webinar delivered by Shazia Akram, HMI, in the South East region, who talks about the importance of early reading and what inspectors look at on…
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Read an open access article from The Chartered College of Teaching from the latest issue of Impact. In this article Polly Crowther and Mona Sakr explore the need for improved…
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Ofsted has set out how its inspections will work in Reception classes once the new early years foundation stage framework launches. John Roberts, writing in TES has highlighted the key…
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The DfE has released a new guidance document for schools to meet existing expectations for teaching early reading. This guidance: focuses on the early stages of teaching reading and the contribution of…
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