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Will your child meet the Early Years Foundation Stage 69 Learning and Development Targets?
This short post doesn’t fit in to any particular category – but it’s something I wanted to put on record and share with other parents who might be reading this blog (and indeed teach… more →
A parent's guide to the early years foundation stage.
Will your child meet the Early Years Foundation Stage 69 Learning and Development Targets?
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Frances Laing wrote 3 days ago: This short post doesn’t fit in to any particular category – but it’s something I w … more →
The Archbishop of Canterbury on children's lives today
Frances Laing wrote 5 days ago: I can’t remember the last time I sat down and read a whole book (many of us with small childre … more →
Do you know what your child (aged four) needs to do to improve?
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Frances Laing wrote 1 week ago: Sunday afternoon. I’m tackling that familiar set of tasks befalling parents on a regular basis … more →
Launch of parliamentary petition on Early Years Foundation Stage Learning and Development Requirements
Frances Laing wrote 1 week ago: Firstly, thank you to the many early years practitioners and parents who continue to help and suppor … more →
Early Years Foundation Stage - Learning and Development Requirements
Frances Laing wrote 1 week ago: I’ve lifted this comment out of the comments section. I was very pleased to receive it, thanks … more →
Being a parent in a target-driven culture (Early Years Foundation Stage)
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Frances Laing wrote 2 weeks ago: In the last two weeks everything seems to have moved very fast. Last week I attended my daughter … more →
The Wall.
Frances Laing wrote 4 weeks ago: Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Times have changed and so has education. I’d l … more →
Is screen-based technology a benefit for children today?
Frances Laing wrote 1 month ago: Woman’s Hour slot today with Sue Palmer 10.a.m. Listen (again) here. … more →
What the government has to say: The Cambridge Primary Schools Review
Frances Laing wrote 1 month ago: Couldn’t let this go without reading what the government has to say in today’s Guardian … more →
The Cambridge Primary Review 2009
Frances Laing wrote 1 month ago: The Cambridge Primary Review “Children, their World, their Education: final report and recomme … more →
Are summer-born children at risk of mental illness?
Frances Laing wrote 1 month ago: The National Foundation for Education Research’s latest findings on summer-born children are d … more →
Beverley Hughes and criticisms of the Early Years Foundation Stage
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: The Guardian’s ‘Mortarboard’ blog filled up with comments last year. I’m inc … more →
Tories to review Early Years Foundation Stage?
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: Nursery World reports: “Tories to review Early Years Foundation Stage”. The article is e … more →
Parental 'choice' and Early Years Education
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: There’s some truth in the statement that I write to save my life. I don’t mean this blog … more →
Statement on rejection of EYFS Parental exemption request
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: Quite a number of readers have asked to see the public statement we made when our exemption request … more →
The Primary School Debate - BBC Radio 4 tonight at 8.p.m.
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Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: From conversations I’ve had with fellow parents on the school run (or in our case the school … more →
Childminding and Early Years Politics on Woman's Hour Today
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: Two police officers have been told it would be illegal for them to look after each other’s chi … more →
Leading Headmaster condemns EYFS curriculum
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: From yesterday’s Daily Telegraph – John Tranmer – chairman of the Independent Asso … more →
Keeping Children Safe on the Internet
Frances Laing wrote 2 months ago: Parents are not usually pleased to see a police car on the school run. But today a smiling copper wa … more →
