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The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets the statutory standards that all early years providers must meet. This includes all maintained schools, non-maintained schools, independent schools and all providers on the Early Years Register.
The EYFS seeks to provide:
The EYFS specifies requirements for learning and development and for safeguarding children and promoting their welfare. The learning and development requirements cover:
The safeguarding and welfare requirements cover the steps that providers must take to keep children safe and promote their welfare.
The EYFS learning and development requirements comprise:
The seven areas of learning and development and the educational programmes The early learning goals, which summarise the knowledge, skills and understanding that all young children should have gained by the end of the Reception year; and
The assessment requirements (when and how practitioners must assess children’s achievements, and when and how they should discuss children’s progress with parents and/or carers).
There are seven areas of learning and development that must shape educational programmes in early years settings. All areas of learning and development are important and inter-connected. Three areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive. These three areas, the prime areas, are:
1.4. Providers must also support children in four specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied. The specific areas are: