early years foundation stage
In response to the Ofsted publication ‘Bold Beginnings’, Solihull have invited Helen Moylett and Nancy Stewart to lead an afternoon of exploration and debate to reflect on the key themes of the report. Nancy and Helen were National Strategy co-authors of Development Matters and were involved in writing the Early Years Foundation Stage and also contributed to the EYFS Tickell review.
On 30th April 2018, between 1pm-4pm at Sans Souci, they will lead our consideration of high quality provision for reception age children. One place per school will be available, in the first instance, for Solihull Head Teachers/EYFS leads.
To apply for a place, please email the delegate name to: inset@solihull.gov.uk
There will be a charge of £70 for the half-day session. Additional places may be offered to schools that have requested multiple-places and are on the waiting list if space allows [allocated in the order in which they are requested]. The report will also be a key agenda item on the EYFS leaders and managers meetings in the spring.
Could you please forward this information to your EYFS Reception teachers.
Places are still available on Monday 5th February, 1.00 – 3.30pm or Friday 9th February, 1.00 – 3.30pm. Both sessions will be held at Sans Souci.
Please note that the session on the morning of 9th February has been cancelled.
Audience: Teachers responsible for completing the EYFS Profile assessment and practitioners working with reception age children.
Delegates should bring along examples of evidence for children working at ELG to share and moderate with other reception class teachers and practitioners.
1 place per school is free of charge. Additional places are charged at £35.
Tutor: Jayne Draper
Bookings should be made through the Education Improvement Service. Please email delegate name/school and course name/date to: inset@solihull.gov.uk
Thank you to the schools who submitted their autumn phonics data through SIMS to the Data and Performance team. As this is a new collection process that became available at the end of last term only a small number of schools did this. Therefore, we have been able to arrange for the submission date to be extended to Friday 9th February 2018. If enough schools participate, analysis will be provided back to schools and in time we hope to create analyse within SIMS that you can run immediately after data entry has been completed. Having this data recorded in SIMS also means it is available to pull through onto other marksheets, such as tracker marksheets, which might be useful.
All schools within the CLLD network have had the relevant templates uploaded into SIMS. If you are not in the CLLD network but are interested in being part of this collection, please log a helpdesk call for EIMS, and they will set this up for you.
Arrangements for the termly collection of school’s Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 Phonics data through SIMS.
New research raises teachers concern into ability grouping and its effect on children’s self- esteem. The researchers, Dr Alice Bradbury and Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, said: “Teachers told us that the pressure upon schools to demonstrate continuously improving data in the Phonics Screening Check and KS1 SATS appears to exert a downward pressure into the EYFS.” The information from this research will be explored in the Solihull Early Years and Education Improvement CPD programme (link below).
