Archive for the ‘Coalition government’ Category
12
Jul
Posted by Frances Laing in Coalition government. Tagged: Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Criticisms of the EYFS, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, stop school league tables for five year olds. 2 Comments
Battle-fatigued is the phrase Special Educational Needs blogger Guerilla Mum Ellen Powers uses (she is currently sadly missing in action from her SEN blog). Come back Ellen – we need you. As I approach the end of term and contemplate a parents evening with my daughter’s soon-to-be Year 2 teacher – battle fatigued is how I feel [...]
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3
Jun
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Cuts in Education. Tagged: Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Child care at universities, Early Years Foundation Stage, West Cheshire College, West Cheshire Council. Leave a Comment
The Chester and District Standard front page today featured a story on “Parent’s nursery closure fury”. According to the Standard “Bosses at West Cheshire College have confirmed the ABC nursery in Handbridge will cease to exist in July. The Ellesmere Port campus closed on Friday”. Some 80 families have been affected. Local parents said: “There was no [...]
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20
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Karen Reissman. Tagged: Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Karen Reissman, National Union of Journalists, West Cheshire Council, Women Against the Cuts. Leave a Comment
Several years since I heard Karen Reissman speak at the radical National Union of Journalists Conference at the Quaker Meeting House in Manchester. Now it seems even here in middle England there is an organised movement against the cuts. Tonight’s Meeting’s focus: “Defending the National Health Service” and it starts at 7.30 p.m. Guildhall Watergate [...]
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1
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Conservative Party, Conservative party policy on reading test, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, EYFS and coalition government, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation, History of opposition to EYFS learning and development targets, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, stop league tables for five year olds international petition. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Early Years Foundation Stage, EYFS review, League tables for five year olds, Phonics test for six year olds, Say No to Phonics Tests for Small Children. 6 Comments
Front page Times Educational Supplement today we find an interesting piece by Helen Ward entitled: “Phonics knocked off it’s perch by EYFS review”. in which Helen appears to be highlighting how the findings of the government-sponsored review panel appear to directly contradict coalition government policy on the reading test for five and six year olds. I’m saying ‘coalition government’ policy [...]
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31
Mar
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our request for a parental exemption to the learning and development requirements of the EYFS, EYFS, EYFS media coverage, History of opposition to EYFS learning and development targets, League tables for five year olds, Summer born children. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our application for a parental exemption, Early Years Foundation Stage, Early Years Foundation Stage Review, League tables for five year olds, stop school league tables for five year olds. Leave a Comment
It’s fairly standard these days for a government review to be ‘leaked’ in a targeted way to the press – before it is published. That’s how certain media machines work. Your average PR agency with any clout – knows that public opinion can be influenced by providing journalists with crease-free copy before the event. That [...]
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30
Mar
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our request for a parental exemption to the learning and development requirements of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, EYFS, History of opposition to EYFS learning and development targets, League tables for five year olds, parent's guide to early years foundation stage, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, Summer born children. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, Phonics test for six year olds, West Cheshire Council. Leave a Comment
The results of the Early Years Foundation Stage Review have been announced today. Rest assured readers, I do intend to share my thoughts with you all on this front – as soon as I can. However, in the meantime – I’m sharing this photograph – sized up so that you can see the detail of [...]
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29
Mar
Posted by Frances Laing in Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition government, Conservative party policy on reading test, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Reading Tests for six year olds, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, EYFS and coalition government, League tables for five year olds. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, Early Years Foundation Stage, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, Phonics test for six year olds. Leave a Comment
Received some important post this morning from our Member of Parliament. I have my own views on this, but decided it might be interesting to hear reader’s comments first. Your thoughts, readers? Update added 29th. March (realised that the scanned version of this letter had a piece missing) here is the important missing bit – [...]
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18
Aug
Posted by Frances Laing in Coalition government, Disadvantaged children, Early Years Foundation Stage. Tagged: Council cuts in provision for disadvantaged children, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Years Council Cuts, Early Years Foundation Stage, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, Review of the Early Years Foundation Stage. 1 Comment
I’d wanted to write my next post with an analysis of the structure of the U.K. government’s review/consultation of the Early Years Foundation Stage in mind – but I’ve just received Nursery World’s e-newsletter in my in-box and I’m pulling another news item forward: Nursery World reports planned cuts in the London Borough of Westminster which will ‘destroy early [...]
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9
Jul
Posted by Frances Laing in Coalition government, Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our request for a parental exemption to the learning and development requirements of the EYFS, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation, Open Eye Conference 2010, parliamentary petition parentsguide 2009, Summer born children, The importance of play. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Documenting our application for a parental exemption, Early Years Foundation Stage, EYFS exemptions, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage. Leave a Comment
The long-awaited review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation has now been announced. The review has already been the focus of considerable media attention this week and I intend to continue analysing what the government is saying and reactions to this announcement over the next few weeks. The language originally used by organisations which [...]
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22
Jun
Posted by Frances Laing in Coalition government, Criticisms of the EYFS, Dr. Aric Sigman, Early Years Foundation Stage, EYFS and coalition government, History of opposition to EYFS learning and development targets, Open Eye Conference 2010. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Dr. Aric Sigman, EYFS media coverage, FAQ's Open Eye, Open Eye. Leave a Comment
The international Open Eye conference I attended two weeks ago received coverage in the national media, including the Telegraph newspaper: They chose the challenging headline “Ban Computers from schools until children reach age 9 says expert”. Dr. Aric Sigman is quoted: “There is evidence to show that introducing information and communications technology (ICT) in the early years [...]
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