1. NatSIP Tuesday 5 February 2013
Early Years
NatSIP
Tuesday 5 February 2013

2. The curriculum framework
The Early Years Foundation Stage
birth to five years
all settings registered with Ofsted
revised September 2012

3. Principles parents as child’s first educator
importance of relationships
competent learners from birth
central role of play, indoors and out
routines flowing with child
planning for individual child: what children can do
Distinctive nature of early years work

4. EYFS Materials Statutory framework for the EYFS
- the learning and development requirements
- assessment
- the safeguarding and welfare requirements
Development Matters in the EYFS
EYFS Profile
Supporting Families in the Foundation Years
Take examples

5. Development Matters A Unique Child
- observing what a child is learning
Positive Relationships
- what adults could do
Enabling Environments
- what adults could provide

6. Characteristics of Effective Learning
Playing and exploring – engagement
Active learning – motivation
Creating and thinking critically – thinking

7. Areas of learning and development
three prime areas
- communication and language
- physical development
- personal, social and emotional development
four specific areas
- literacy
- mathematics
- understanding the world
- expressive arts and design.

8. Stages of learning and development
Birth - 11 months
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Check grids - NB overlapping

9. EYFSP - Inclusion
Characteristics of effective learning and 17 early learning goals
All adults who have significant interactions with the child
Emerging - use of Development Matters earlier developmental statements
Specialist professional guidance for specific SEND

10. Links to health EYFS progress check at 2/3 years
Healthy Child Programme review at 2-2½ years
Integrated health and education reviews - testing content and process 2013
- consultation 2014
- implementation from 2015
- short written summary in three prime areas (PSE, PD, C+L)
- pilots in Islington, Medway, Leeds, Norfolk, Northants
- universal offer not just settings eg drawing on parents' knowledge (link to VIDJ)

11. Resources
Cf Positive Eye Early Years Mapping document (EYFS with VIDJ) updated

12. Early Support Materials
Parent Information booklets
Background information booklets
Developmental journals
Our Family
My Life
Multi-agency planning and improvement tool (MAPIT)
Early Support app
NB ES birth to school age and beyond
- primary user - can enter info
- standard user - invited to share

13. Parent Information booklets
Autistic spectrum disorders
Behaviour
Cerebral palsy
Deafness
Down syndrome
If your child has a rare condition
Learning disabilities
Multi-sensory impairment
Neurological Disorders
Sleep
Speech and language difficulties
Visual impairment
When your child has no diagnosis
24 on web
Cf VI - general information, EY, school age, YP
Web based material due March/April

14. Background Information booklets
Introduction
Financial help
Childcare
Social services
Health services
People you may meet
Statutory assessment - Education
Education
Contacts and organisations
Being revised
+ informed choice materials for YP due Feb?March

15. Developmental journals
Early years journal (generic)
Deaf children
Children with vision impairment
Children with Downs Syndrome
Multiple needs

16. Resources