1. Early Years Leaders and Managers Network 4 th November 2015

2.  Children’s Centre referrals- Kay White  Profile Highlights - Karen  Training updates – Elaine and Danielle  Funding Updates – Danielle and Fiona  General Updates Agenda

3. EYFS Profile 2015

4.  68% children achieved a GLD (up 7%) – national 66%  PD(90%) – highest proportion of pupils achieving ELG  Numbers(79%), Reading (78%) and Writing (72%) are the goals with the lowest proportion of pupils achieving the early learning goal  Girls outperform boys in many areas-12% gap in Writing, 14% gap in Reading, 7% gap in Maths Swindon 2014-2015

5.  Writing is the weakest area  66% children achieved all 17 ELGs – up 8% from 2014  There continues to be a significant gap between boys and girls achievements  There continues to be a significant achievement gap between the attainment of the most vulnerable (PP) and those children not attracting PP

6. Give meaning to marks as they draw, write and paint Continue a rhyming string Begin to break the flow of speech into words Hear and say initial sounds in words Segment sounds in simple words and blend them together (aspect 7 letters and sounds) Writing (4 years +) 40-60 months

7. Children are arriving in school with very poor hand skills….  Settings need to focus more on developing hand and finger muscle strength  Lots of fine motor activities for children to choose  Variety of mark making activities and tools throughout for children to choose  Practitioners modelling and talking about mark making  Practitioners modelling and talking about letter sounds (and just sounds for younger children) Implications for FS1 settings

8.  Linking sounds to letters, naming and sounding letters with meaning-in the environment, during play  Daily letters and sounds activities (for reading and writing) starting with aspects 1 to 6, moving onto aspect 7 when children are confident Gain advice from your link school Getting onto letters….

9.  Recognise numerals 1 to 5  Counts objects to 10 and beginning to count beyond 10  Counts actions or objects that cannot be moved  Selects the correct numeral to represent 1 to 10  Counts out up to 6 objects from a larger group Number 40 to 60+ months

10.  Counts an irregular arrangement of up to 10 objects  Estimates how many objects they can see and then counts them to check  Uses language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’  Finds total number of objects in 2 groups by counting all of them  Says which number is one more or one less  Records using marks that they can interpret

11.  Numbers throughout the provision  Mathematical resources throughout the provision  Maths included in daily routines  Practitioners talking about and modelling maths when interacting Implications for FS1 settings

12. What do you do to help children practice these skills every day? Consider your Practice….

13. Schools on-line - Useful publications Mark Making Matters Children Thinking Mathematically Supporting children learning EAL Useful Publications…

14.  64 completed questionnaires  Q1 – attending training regularly? -36 ‘yes’ 19 ‘sometimes’ 9 ‘no’  Q2 - Main barrier? – cost-13 settings  27 settings stated cover as key issue  15 settings- more courses for experienced managers  7-transport  2-quality of training Training Evaluation and Feedback

15.  27 stated booking system as issue and cancellations  Q3 – request for more training on…  EAL  SEN  Maths  Lead Professional Role  Behaviour  Communication/S&L  Literacy

16.  Booking system very time consuming  Not easy to pay or book  Short notice for cancellations/confirmations Booking system/Communication

17.  45 stated they would be prepared to pay more  Not bothered about refreshments  42 replied interested in annual conference  47 settings stated they would be interested in cluster-type training General…

18.  Review of training for more experienced staff and managers-Leadership programme  More SEN training  Training for gaps in Profile outcomes -’funky fingers’  Plans to revise booking system  Develop the idea of in-house training sessions  Annual conference-plans underway  Review of Costs – very reasonable compared to other LA’s ( charge 1 day - £35, mandatory training - £40, S&L- £10 ) What next….?

19. Funding Updates…

20. Most disadvantaged children DfE –www.foundationyears.org.uk  Less developed language skills, lower levels of social & behavioural development  Parents less likely to engage in home learning activities SEED Project

21. http://schoolsonline.swindon.gov.uk SCID : Social communication and interaction guidance (Aug 2015) Encouraging positive behaviour Updated S&L referral form: www.swindonspeechandlanguagetherapy.wordpress.c om/how do I get my child seen Guidance Updates…

22. Wednesday 9 th March 2016 Next Meeting…