What is the Early Years Foundation Stage 2012?

What is the Early Years Foundation Stage 2012?

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 2012 The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) was established under the Childcare Act 2006 and is a framework for learning, development and care for children from birth to five.

What is the current framework for early years?

The EYFS framework sets the standards to make sure that children aged from birth to 5 learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. The framework is for all Ofsted registered early years providers in all settings, including: nurseries. childminders.

What are the main changes to EYFS 2021?

Physical Development will be strengthened to include a greater focus on development from birth to reception and on the link between gross and fine motor skills. Literacy will include a stronger emphasis on pre-reception literacy learning, and the link between language comprehension and later reading and writing.

What are the four key aims of the EYFS framework?

These are: Communication and language; Physical development; and. Personal, social and emotional development.

What are the 3 prime areas of the EYFS?

The three Prime areas, Personal, social and emotional development (PSED), Communication and language (CL), and Physical development (PD), describe universal core aspects of early child development.

What are the 7 areas of learning?

We’ll now take a brief look at each of these 7 areas and why they are important.

  • Communication and language development.
  • Physical development.
  • Personal, social, and emotional development.
  • Literacy development.
  • Mathematics.
  • Understanding the world.
  • Expressive arts and design.

What are the changes to EYFS 2020?

The main changes are to the ELGs and the wording, including: Literacy goes from two ELGs – Reading and Writing – to three, now encompassing Comprehension, Word Reading, and Writing. Mathematics loses Shape, Space and Measure, replaced with Mathematical Patterns.

What are the 7 early learning goals?

The Statutory Framework has 7 Prime areas for learning:

  • Communication and language development.
  • Physical development.
  • Personal, social and emotional development.
  • Literacy development.
  • Mathematics.
  • Understanding the world.
  • Expressive arts and design.

What are the EYFS 7 areas of learning?

The areas of learning are:

  • communication and language.
  • physical development.
  • personal, social and emotional development.
  • literacy.
  • mathematics.
  • understanding the world.
  • expressive arts and design.

What are the 5 main areas of child development?

There are 5 key areas of development:

  • gross motor skills, for example crawling, jumping or running.
  • fine motor skills, such as writing and drawing.
  • speech and language.
  • cognitive and intellectual, such as counting or identifying shapes.
  • social and emotional skills, such as playing with other children.

What are Ofsted looking for in EYFS?

Ofsted will be looking for examples of how parents are engaged in their children’s learning in EYFS and how you as a practitioner deliver the information and report on the child’s developmental needs. Questions to consider: How successful do you feel you are at engaging parents in their child’s learning/development?