Archive for the ‘Early Years Foundation Stage - Private Schools’ Category

Teaching under-fives lawful in schools again, says shock report

Dame Clare Tickell’s report into the EYFS makes interesting reading. Frankly, my expectations of government-commissioned “independent” reports are quite low, written, as they tend to be, in formulaic colourless jargon. You read pages and wonder at the end what they have really…

Born Creative

Think-tank Demos recently hosted a roundtable discussion to discuss the role of creativity during children’s early years development, and to launch a new pamphlet, Born Creative. At the heart of the discussion was the purpose of…

Practical implications of Social Mobility Myths

At a seminar hosted by Civitas yesterday, Professor Peter Saunders expanded on the discussion of social mobility laid forth in his publication Social Mobility Myths. Prof Saunders began the discussion by identifying Britain as a nation dedicated to…

Research highlights economic advantage of strong early years education

In the ongoing debate about the long-term value of early years education programmes, research tends to focus on achievement effects as measured by test scores. A recent report from the ONS and NIESR found that children who learn to…

Science teaching at prep schools

Today’s publication of the latest of The Royal Society’s ‘State of the Nation’ reports makes for interesting reading.  The report casts light on the teaching of Science and Maths between the ages of 5 and 14, and draws attention…

Independent Schools and Early Years Foundation Stage

By definition independent schools have the freedom to set their own curriculum and have freedom in their choice of pupils and are not dependent on Government or Local Authority finance.

Why then are they now being told that they will…