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Daily Telegraph · letter names or sounds and spellings · Review of Early Years Foundation Stage

The EYFS review

July 7, 2010 John

Yesterday’s Telegraph is reporting that the sixty-nine targets set by the previous Labour government for children to reach by the age of five – the so-called ‘nappy curriculum’ – are to be reviewed.First on the list to go should be the insistence that children in nursery, YR and Y1 learn letter names. Ten years ago,… Continue reading The EYFS review

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