Archive for the ‘Criticisms of the EYFS’ Category
7
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Anti-academies alliance, Authors against Sats, Cheshire West Against the Cuts, Coalition Against the Cuts, Criticisms of the EYFS, Cuts in Education, Homework at the age of four, League tables for five year olds, Reading in primary schools, stop league tables for five year olds international petition. Tagged: Campaign for th e Book, Cheshire West Against the Cuts, West Cheshire Unison Easter Strike 2012. 5 Comments
This blog has developed organically over the course of two and a half years. My daughter is now six and a half. We are acutely aware of the damage that has been done by testing young children too much. And too much too soon, as has been evidenced by the mistakes made with the early [...]
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4
Apr
Posted by Frances Laing in Bullying and the under fives, 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 materials, League tables for five year olds, Phonics testing for five and six year olds, Reading in primary schools, Reading scores in primary schools, Reading Test at Five, stop league tables for five year olds international petition, stop school league tables for five year olds. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Day Motion Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds, League tables for five year olds, Michael Rosen and Phonics, Phonics test for six year olds, Say No to Phonics Tests for Small Children. 1 Comment
Here is the very sensible Michael Rosen (who signed the international petition to Stop School League Tables for Five Year Olds) with his take on synthetic phonics, targets and creating a love of books:
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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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10
Dec
Posted by Frances Laing in Criticisms of the EYFS, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation, Michael Gove, Open Eye Conference 2010, Summer born children. Tagged: Early Years Foundation Stage, League tables for five year olds, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage. Leave a Comment
Michael Gove’s plan to introduce league tables for five year olds has given rise to a flurry of protest letters in the print edition of the Times Educational Supplement today – among them this one by Margaret Edgington of Open Eye which I’m taking the liberty of re-publishing here: Five years old is no age for [...]
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28
Nov
Posted by Frances Laing in Bullying and the under fives, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Years Foundation Stage, Summer born children. Tagged: Anti-bullying policy, Bullying, Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Years Foundation Stage, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage, White paper on education. Leave a Comment
It’s been a while. For many of us – after the government’s spending review – planned early years projects have been delayed, re-arranged or scrapped altogether. The future is uncertain. I’ve been looking at the government’s new white paper on education. All eighty pages of it. What strikes me is that the Finnish model of education is [...]
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28
Sep
Posted by Frances Laing in Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Years Foundation Stage, Early Years Foundation Stage review, Freedom of Information Act queries, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation. Tagged: Criticisms of the EYFS, Early Years Foundation Stage, Early Years Foundation Stage Review, parent's guide to the early years foundation stage. 2 Comments
Dear Readers, I’ve been away from this particular blog – but by no means idle. I’ve finished writing a chapter for a forthcoming book on the English early years education system. I’ll post further details on the launch as soon as I get them – it might take a while. The deadline to complete responses to [...]
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4
Aug
Posted by Frances Laing in Criticisms of the EYFS, EYFS and coalition government, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage legislation. Tagged: Government review for EYFS, Government review of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Leave a Comment
I mentioned in the previous post that I’m currently writing a chapter for a book which analyses the English Early Years Education system. Since we’re the only parents in the U.K. to our knowledge to have applied and been refused an exemption to the Early Years Foundation Stage learning and development requirements in a state-funded [...]
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