Getting Ready for the Revised EYFS September 2012

EYFS Support Meeting Summer 2012

Aims

• To ensure practitioners are familiar with the key elements of the revised EYFS ready for implementation in September 2012

• To network and learn from each other

• To share national and local updates

Implementing the Revised EYFS

Retain resources and

systems

Building on existing good practice –

refinement rather than change

www.foundationyears.org.uk

DocumentsAvailable

• Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (DfE)

• Development Matters (Early Education)

• A Know How Guide The EYFS progress check at age two (ncb)

• Check list of changes

To follow

• EYFS for Parents (4children) Summer 2012

• The EYFS Profile 2012 (STA)

Revised EYFS - Key Themes• Safeguarding • Child development, how children learn

areas of learning and development• Partnership with parents• SEN and inclusion• Assessment• Early intervention, inter agency working

Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage

• The Learning and Development Requirements

• Assessment

• The Safeguarding and Welfare requirements

The Learning and Development Requirements

Section 1

• Wrap around and holiday providers

• Prime and Specific areas of learning.

• Individual needs, interests, and stage of development Development Matters

• English as an additional language

• Planned, purposeful play through ‘a mix of adult led and child initiated activity’

• The different ways children learn Characteristics of Effective Learning

• Early Learning Goals

Section 2

• Assessment Progress check at age two A Know How Guide: The EYFS progress

check at age two

Taken from Development Matters in the EYFS page 5 Early Education 2012

Development Matters Characteristics of Effective Learning

Playing and Exploring,

Active Learning and

Creating and Thinking Critically support children’s

learning across all areas of

learning

• Activity: Reflection

Assessment

• The EYFS progress check at age two

• Progress from the Start

• EYFS Support Meeting Autumn 12

The EYFS Progress Check at Age Two

Activity: True or False

True / False

The EYFS requires that providers carry out a progress check at age two

True / False

• When recording the progress check , practitioners must use a government prescribed format?

True / False

The progress check at 2 involves the

• Childs key person

• Observational on going assessment

• Voices of the child, parent and other

professionals involved

True / False

• The progress check should describe the activities and strategies the provider intends to adopt to address any issues and concerns

True / False

One of the aims of the progress check is to review a child's development in the 3 prime areas

True / False

Practitioners should encourage parents to share information from the progress check with other relevant professionals, including their health visitor

True / False

If a child moves between settings between the ages of two and three, it is expected that the progress check would usually be undertaken by the setting where the child has spent the most time

The Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements

• How do I ensure that I meet all the requirements?

Meeting the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements

Meeting the Safeguarding and Welfare Requirements

• What are the important changes?

• Activity: Scenarios

Ofsted Inspection and Regulation from September 2012

• New frameworks for registration, inspection and enforcement

• Guidance and frameworks published end June 12

• What Ofsted intend to achieve

• Proposed inspection judgements

Refreshment Break / Networking