Sally's Blog

Hi

The EYFS is in the news again, with the Government Education Advisor, Mr Jim Rose, under pressure to review what are widely regarded amongst professionals as inappropriate early learning goals for Literacy.

From the BBC News website -

"The Open EYE education campaign has been running a petition on the Downing Street website which has more than 7,000 signatures.
Dr Richard House of the campaign said: "Just because some children can be drilled into meeting essentially arbitrary literacy targets at age five says nothing whatsoever about whether they are developmentally appropriate.
"There is simply no existing evidence that these goals are appropriate for five-year-olds, and plenty of evidence to the contrary - so the government is effectively playing grossly irresponsible Russian roulette with our young children’s early learning."

Couldn't agree more!

But

"shadow families minister Maria Miller said "The focus should be on making sure trained professionals are in place to help young children with reading and writing."

But surely only when the children are ready for this, which most professionals I know would insist is not during the Foundation Stage!!

Sally