Year one phonics screening check

The Government is pressing ahead with its plan to introduce the Year One Phonics Screening Check as a statutory test for all children in Year One. The Check will take place for the first time in all primary schools in June 2012. Guidance on the administration of the Check will be available to schools in January 2012 in the Assessment and Reporting Arrangements document.

The National Union of Teachers welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Department for Education’s Consultation on a Revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The NUT supports the retention of the ‘Overarching Principles’ within the EYFS and believes that throughout the document the emphasis should continue to reflect the fourth principle which is ‘children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates’.

The purpose of this document is to provide further information and guidance on the Second Wave Pathfinder Local Authorities implementing the Early Years Single Funding Formula (EYSFF) from April 2010.

The NUT recommended in this submission that the Government should re-evaluate its policy on early Years Funding in order to ensure that high quality early years provision in maintained nursery schools was not lost.

Important changes are taking place to the provision of early years education in England. Free nursery entitlement for three and four year olds is being extended from 12.5 hours to 15 hours per week.

A survey on the extension of free entitlement to early education and care for three and four year olds was conducted in January and February 2009. The survey was sent to a random sample of 1000 NUT members who identified themselves as working in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). 259 questionnaires were returned, giving a response rate of 26 per cent.

This document provides up-dated professional advice and guidance to members who work in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

This document provides information on the statutory requirements and non-statutory guidance on staffing ratios for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in England.

This document provides information and guidance about initiatives arising from the Government’s Ten Year Childcare Strategy and the Childcare Bill and their implications for members working in early years settings.

The purpose of this resource book is to provide further information and guidance on issues raised in the NUT play policy document Time to Play?