The Importance Of The Eyfs

Furthermore, there are 4 main principles of the EYFS: unique child, positive relationships and enabling environments. If

Practitioners work in partnership with parent’s families, as they are the child’s first and most enduring carers and educators

Overall making sure every child is included and their special or different needs are taken into consideration will overall benefit the child educationally and socially.

To provide a broad, balanced and integrated curriculum with a view to developing the individual child’s full potential.

Understanding the EYFS is essential as my observations and reports about children have to be accurate and objective to avoid bias and show a full ‘map’ of child’s development in all the different areas. I have to make sure that my observations are always a true record of what is taking place (e.g. tempting to add something what may make more

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

Their main objective is to create a safe educational environment for the children to learn in to help them develop in all areas. The setting offers a variety of activities for the children to take part in which will develop areas of their holistic development which will work with the children to reach the goals set for them.

Partnership with parents is essential when working with children, the setting comply with the EYFS a statutory framework used as a guidance. The EYFS requires settings to work co-operatively with partners and build relationships not only to support the children

The EYFS is the core document for all professionals working in the early years; it also gives parents a sense of confidence knowing that wherever they send their child for education the same principles will apply regarding the EYFS.

The purpose of the EYFS is to ensure that all children have access to quality early years education. To measure this and to ensure practitioners have a focus for their work a series of outcomes is given for each area of learning, these are the early learning goals.

Striving to provide high quality childcare provisions that support children’s development to reach their potential.

It is very important to recognise that parents and practitioners have different kinds of relationships with the children in their care. Practitioners need to develop consistent, warm and affectionate relationships with children especially babies but they should not seek to replace the parents. Babies need to be with the same people each and every day to develop social relationships. This is why the EYFS requires all early years settings and schools to implement a key person system. Parents and practitioners have one thing in common that is very important: they all want the best for the child. The roles involved are not the same yet they are complementary. Parents know their own child best. Practitioners have knowledge of general child development.

The aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being by:

• Provision needs to be inclusive & reflect/meet the needs of all children irrespective of their background or ability.

For the children’s learning to be successful, parent involvement is critical. An orientation will occur prior to the children attending. Parents will be updated with the day care policies, the lay out of the day care, the expectations and the introduction of their child care provider. This is done to allow both the parent and child care provider to get to know each other and allows them both the opportunity to discuss the care the child will need. It is very important for communication between the parent and the day care staff to be consistent. Parent involvement can provide feedback to the parent in regards to what the children are learning daily. This helps with their child’s assessment of the program to