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Key Person & Attachment

WebA key person is a named member of staff with responsibilities for a small group of children who helps those children in the group feel safe and cared for. The role is an important one and an approach set out in the EYFS which is working successfully in settings and in Reception classes. It involves the key person in responding sensitively to

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Play & Learning

WebThe Importance of Play. Play underpins the EYFS. It also underpins learning and all aspects of children’s development. Through play, children develop language skills, their emotions and creativity, social and intellectual skills. For most children their play is natural and spontaneous although some children may need extra help from adults.

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Health and Well-being

WebHealth and Well-being A Unique Child Growing and developing Although newborn babies vary in size their growth rates are very similar. Children’s health and well-being are affected by both the genes they inherit and the environment in which

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What has happened since Dame Clare Tickell’s review of the EYFS

WebDame Clare’s recommendation have been considered by the government alongside wider proposals to improve young children’s life chances. Currently there is a consultation on a proposed new Statutory Framework for the EYFS. Most but not all of the Tickell recommendations are addressed in the consultation, however many are …

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Effective Practice

WebPositive Relationships are: warm and loving, and foster a sense of belonging. sensitive and responsive to the child’s needs, feelings and interests. supportive of the child’s own efforts and independence. consistent in setting clear boundaries. stimulating. built on key person relationships in early years settings.

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Observation, Assessment and Planning

WebObservation, Assessment and Planning EYFS Statutory Assessment. The Early Years Profile is to remain statutory for the time being. However, following the decision to abandon on-entry assessment of children entering reception classes last year there has now been a consultation: Primary Assessment in England which invited views about the perceived …

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Physical Development

WebAspects of Physical Development Moving & Handling Health & Self-Care Why Physical Development is a Prime Area There has been considerable concern over the last few years about an increase in children’s sedentary behaviour and a reduction in their physical activity. Physical development has been described as ‘experience-expectant’ learning which …

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Positive Relationships

WebPositive Relationships. Babies and young children learn to be strong and independent through loving and secure relationships with parents and carers and other family members such as grandparents. When children are looked after outside the home they can develop security and independence through having a key person to care for them. Children’s

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Working in Partnership

WebIn early childhood settings this can involve teams from different disciplines such as education and health and social care teams working in partnership with families to ensure each child’s individual needs are met. How partners work together is defined by the agreements reached about data sharing and about confidentiality – any information

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Physical Development (PD)

WebPhysical development is as the title suggests about how babies and young children gain control of their bodies, but it also includes how children learn about keeping themselves active and healthy and how they learn to use equipment and materials successfully and safely. In the Early Years Foundation Stage, Physical Development is broken down

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Enabling Environments

WebEnabling environments encourage babies and young children to play because they feel relaxed, comfortable and ‘at home’ in them. When children feel emotionally safe and secure they are able to explore and find out about the place they are in and the things they can see, touch, manoeuvre or manipulate. In the EYFS the environment is described

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Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage

WebThe Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage document is designed to be used together with the Practice Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage booklet, which contains further information and advice, and the EYFS resources (the CD-ROM, the Principles into Practice cards and the poster).

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Learning, Playing and Interacting

WebPlaying – indoors and out, alone and with others, quietly or boisterously – allows children to find out about things, try out and practise ideas and skills, take risks, explore their feelings, learn from mistakes, be in control and think imaginatively. Playing is an important centre of learning for young children.

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Indoor and Outdoor Environment

WebIn the outdoors, children’s use of language is five times greater than indoors. Resources don’t need to be expensive. Old tyres, some logs and crates will stimulate imagination and can be used in a number of ways. A sheet can become a den. Flower pots and hanging baskets and a ‘wild area’ give contact with the natural world.

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Inclusive Practice

WebInclusive Practice A Unique Child Children’s entitlements All children are citizens and have rights and entitlements. Children should be treated fairly regardless of race, religion or abilities. This applies no matter what they think or say; what type of …

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Emotional Environment

WebEmotional Environment. The environment is more than physical space because it contains the emotions of the children who spend time in it, the staff that work there and the parents who leave their children there. The emotional environment is an invisible measure of ‘feelings’ – sometimes it can have a ‘feel-good’ factor where the

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The Bercow Report

WebFor any other use please contact [email protected]. 1. Bercow Review of Services for Children and Young People (0-19) with Speech, Language and Communication Needs. Executive Summary. This report makes recommendations to Government about the steps it should take to transform provision for and the experiences of children and young

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