“Babies and young children are individuals first, each with a unique profile of abilities. Schedules and routines should flow with the child’s needs.” (EYFS card 3.1)
For those settings signed up to the Service Level Agreement subscription scheme, a wide range of information, guidance and support materials to help you meet this requirement are available from Shropshire Council’s team of Education Improvement Service development officers and Quality Improvement Learning co-ordinators.
All Ofsted registered providers MUST have policy guidance on:
Settling in
Partnership with parents
All Ofsted registered providers SHOULD have policy guidance on:
Key person
Quality Improvement Learning co-ordinators and development officers can help you with the following:
- Child development
- Play
- Meeting individual needs
- Observation
- Assessment
- Planning
- Partnership with parents
- Environments - outdoors and indoors
- Resources
- Routines
- Interacting with children
- Supporting learning
EYFS areas of learning:
personal, social and emotional; communication, language and literacy; problem-solving, reasoning and numeracy; knowledge and understanding of the world; creative development; physical development