EYFS Support MeetingAutumn 2013

9.30-10.30 Letters and Sounds

10.30-11.00 Partnership working/networking

11.00-11.30 ELCS Update

Letters and Sounds

Phase 1

Childminders, PVI

settings, other early

years provision

Phases 2 - 6: Schools

www.foundationyears.org.uk

Phase One ActivitiesListen attentively

Speak confidently to adults and other children

Enlarge their vocabulary

Discriminate phonemes(phoneme - a sound in a word)

To develop oral blending and segmenting of sounds in words

Phase One Activities

These activities are intended to be used as part of a broad and rich language curriculum that:

• has speaking and listening at its centre• links language with physical and practical

experiences • provides an environment rich in print • has abundant opportunities to engage with

books

Phase One - 7 Aspects• Environmental sounds • Instrumental sounds • Body percussion• Rhythm and rhyme• Alliteration• Voice sounds• Oral blending and segmenting

‘Considerations for Practitioners’ section – helps you to reflect and develop practice

Phase One Activities• How do you / could you use this in your setting?

• How could you adapt this activity for younger/older children?

• What implications are there for practitioners?

• Discuss opportunities for providing similar activities within the continuous provision/everyday routine

• How do you share key messages and ideas with parents?

• As a leader/manager how do you monitor the implementation of Letters and Sounds in your setting?

Points for Reflection• Experiences should be play based and fun

–follow the children’s interests

• The role of the adult

• Parent partnerships

• Small group activities

• Letter and Sounds activities available to revisit in the continuous provision - indoor and outdoor

Partnership Working/NetworkingPartnership working will be crucial to the success of the two year old funded programme

Identifying and meeting the holistic needs of families is central to the two year old programme

Networking – peer to peer support, sharing positives/issues that have arisen, best practice around two year olds and their families

More great childcare – A plan of action

• Raising the status and quality of the workforce

• Freeing high quality providers to offer more places

• Improving the regulatory regime

• Giving more choice to parentsJanuary 2013

www.gov.uk/goverment/publications

August 2013

More affordable childcare – A plan of actionwww.gov.uk/goverment/publications

• Help families to meet the costs of childcare

• Increase the amount of affordable provision

• Give parents the right information so they can make informed choices about childcare

July 2013

September 2013

Early Education and ChildcareLocal Authority Duties

Local authorities to act as ‘champions’ for children and parents, particularly disadvantaged children and their families

Early education places for 2, 3 and 4 year olds (eligibility, flexibility, quality, funding, delivery)

Securing sufficient childcare

Information to parents

Information to childcare providers

Early Education and ChildcareLocal Authority Duties - Quality

• Local Authorities no longer to have separate quality assessment

• 2 year olds funded in good or outstanding provision

• 3 and 4 year olds funded in good, outstanding or satisfactory / requiring improvement provision

• Fund new providers registered with Ofsted until their first full Ofsted inspection judgement is published

• Secure alternative provision and withdraw funding, as soon as is practical, for children who are already receiving their funded entitlement at a provider when it is rated inadequate by Ofsted.

Early Education and ChildcareLocal Authority Duties - Information to

childcare providers

• Refocus the duty on local authorities to provide information, advice and training to childcare providers judged less than ‘good’ by Ofsted

• Priority Providers

Priority ProvidersPriority 1• Inadequate Ofsted judgements for all providers • Satisfactory /requires improvement Ofsted judgements for

providers in receipt of FEEE

Priority 2• Newly registered providers• Change of circumstances

Priority 3• Satisfactory/requires improvement providers not in receipt of

FEEE

Priority 4Good or outstanding Ofsted judgement for all provisions