Know Your Early Years For Senior Leaders!

Understand the core principles of the 2023 Statutory Framework and other key DfE guidance documents relevant to your setting.

Learn how to evaluate teaching and learning effectively. Move beyond data to look at the "Unique Child" and "Enabling Environments".

Review requirements for assessment to inform teaching. Understand the cycle of Observation, Assessment, and Planning.

High-quality interactions are the cornerstone of effective early years practice. We will explore how to move from "talking to" to "talking with".

• ShREC Approach: Share attention, Respond, Expand, Conversation.
• Sustained Shared Thinking: Working together to solve problems.
• Environment: Using the environment to spark curiosity.

Ensuring a smooth transition requires understanding the pedagogical shift from EYFS to KS1.

• Play-based & Exploratory
• Holistic Curriculum
• Continuous Provision
• Focus on Prime Areas

• More structured timetable
• Subject-led National Curriculum
• Formal assessments
• Goal: Gradual increase in structure

A developmentally appropriate Year 1 builds on the best of Foundation Stage practice.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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