As the coalition government sets about it’s business – coalition agreements on education and schools are analysed in the mainstream press but official statements on the future of the Early Years Foundation Stage compulsory Learning and Development Requirements remain noticeably absent. The e-parliamentary petition system was de-activated by the U.K. administration around six weeks ago (due to the election, they said). [...]
Archive for May, 2010
14 May
Coalition government, Michael Gove and the Early Years Foundation Stage
There are advantages to being an older parent. You watch political developments with a certain, patient stoicism. Without panic. You’ve seen (most of it in different guises) before, after all. In our household we’ve lived through a whole lot of political history. I was in Germany for ten years and lived through the fall of the Berlin Wall. Proportional representation became second [...]
4 May
Are Early Years Foundation Stage Profile scores being used to predict Sats results in YOUR CHILD’S school?
Measuring things can be very useful, can’t it? Especially for small children. A tape measure is fun to use. Clocks tell us when it’s time for tea…(or in this case – hot chocolate in M and S). But (and it’s a big but) – targets can also distort the way we perceive our fellow human beings. [...]
