The Foundation Phase Of Non Maintained Sectors

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five years and is a mandatory framework for all early years’ providers from 1st September 2012.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the statutory framework that sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children are ready for school and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills t hat provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life. The Early years foundation stage was introduced in 2008 and sets out one standard framework for learning, development and care for all children from birth to the foundation year.

Theories of development and frameworks to support development are incredibly important to us working with children and young people. They help us to understand children, how they react to things/situations, their behaviour and the ways they learn. Different theories and ways of working with children have come together to provide frameworks for children’s care, such as Early year’s foundation stage (EYFS) which is used within all child care settings. This encourages us to work together, help and check the development of babies, children and young people, to keep them healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to

The Early years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is a piece of frame work that relates to children from birth to

Wales: The foundation phase extends from the ages of 3 to 7, which combines early years and key stage 1 of the national curriculum.

The purpose and legal status of the early years frameworks and how it relates to achievement of the Every Child Matters Outcomes (Unit 12 – criteria 1.1) (Unit 13 – criteria 1.2)

The legal status and principles of the Early Years Foundation stage is used with children aged from birth to five years. The Government have outlined three primary and four specific areas and seventeen early learning goals that they think are important to a child’s development and planning is used to meet a child’s individual needs.

The Foundation Curriculum in England and Wales runs from age 3-5 and is therefore implemented in nursery schools right up

The EYFS is concerned with the care, learning and development of children from birth to 5 years. It replaced previous separate guidelines for practitioners caring for children of 0-3 and 3-5 years and ensures that the same standards and requirements are applied to all early years practitioners including childminders and nursery staff.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) was implemented in England in 2008 and applies to all children aged 0-5. This new curriculum combined existing government ideas regarding the care of under 5s including the 'Every Child Matters' (ECM) policy: children's services have to respond to 5 outcomes for all children from birth to 18: being

In addition to this it motivates us to have a better relationship with our colleagues, this helps bring out the positive environment for the children and promotes good behaviour. The guideline that helps us to take on our duty of care appropriately and efficiently is the Early Years Foundation Stage. This provides a detailed explanation of children’s developmental stages which further increases our knowledge for how to demonstrate the safeguarding and protection of the individuals around us.

The Early Years Foundation Stage is a comprehensive statutory framework that sets the standards for the learning, development and care of children from birth to five years. All providers are required to use the EYFS to ensure that whatever setting parents choose, they can be confident their child will receive a quality experience that supports their care, learning and development. It is implemented in all registered early years settings, maintained and independent schools. The settings are required to meet learning, development and welfare requirements in the EYFS package and with regard to the guidance associated with those requirements as appropriate.

Introduction The Foundation Phase curriculum is an integral part of a child’s learning, preparing themselves for not only further education but life experiences too. It puts the child’s personal and social development, well-being and cultural diversity at the core of the curriculum, as well as emphasising the need for creative development and outdoor experiences. The Framework for Children’s Learning for 3 to 7-year-olds in Wales (the Framework) was put into place in order to ensure that schools in Wales are fulfilling their obligation towards their pupils to provide an all-round education that will provide all children with a chance to achieve their full potential both in their education and in later life (The Framework, WAG, 2008). All the areas of learning within the Foundation Phase curriculum are developed in a cross curricular way, it is all interlinked as it is a holistic curriculum.

From your experience of working within both the lower and upper foundation phase. In which Phase do you feel children have more access to outdoor learning opportunities?

The Foundation Phase provides a diverse approach to learning for children which attend a setting funded by the Local Education Authority and are aged between three and seven years old. The learning and teaching of the pedagogy within the Foundation Phase focuses on the practitioner being willing to continuously progress with personal learning and develop the ability to reflect on personal experiences. (DCELLS. 2008). This is strengthened by the quote that a practitioner should be ‘both self aware, willing and able to reflect and analyse from a range of perspectives’ (Pound,L. 2011). The Foundation Phase’s ‘progressive framework’ also allows for children to develop at an individual pace within the same class and consists of seven areas of learning. The areas of learning include personal and social development, well-being and cultural diversity, language, literacy and communication skills and mathematical development. The framework also includes Welsh language development, knowledge and understanding of the world and physical development. Finally the Foundation Phase includes creative development. The Foundation Phase has not always been implemented in the way it is today. (Welsh Assembly Government. 2014.)