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Foundation Stage Toolkit

This Foundation Stage toolkit has been produced to bring together all the key materials developed for the Foundation Stage. This set of eight CD-ROMs are packaged together to support heads of children's centres, headteachers and managers of early years settings. Ref: 1198-2005 Publication date: February 2005

Excellence and enjoyment: A strategy for primary schools

Document sets out the vision for the future of primary education built on what has already achieved. The vision is for a sector where high standards are obtained through a rich, varied and exciting curriculum which develops children in a range of ways. Ref: 0377/2003 Publication date: January 2003

Learning and teaching in the primary years: Professional development resources

Overview of professional development resources on improving learning and teaching across the primary curriculum. Ref: 0518-2004G Publication date: September 2004

Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL): Improving behaviour, improving learning

Resources to help primary schools develop children's social, emotional and behavioural skills, targeted at schools who have identified the social and emotional aspects of learning as a key focus. Topics include assemblies and follow-up ideas for work in class. The publications are presented in a wide range of languages.

Introduction to CLLD

Guidance for early literacy development in Initial Teacher Training. Materials and resources are available, including Sir Jim Rose reporting on the implementation of his recommendations.

Managing complex health needs in schools and early years settings

Handbook with practical examples illustrating how LAs developed policies for supporting children with complex health needs in accessing education. It also contains case studies to show how it made a positive difference to the lives of those children. The information in this handbook helps LAs, schools and early years settings to review their practice and develop their policies through examples that illustrate the ways in which health, education and other setting staff can work together to develop local policies and procedures to ensure that the needs of this group of children are met in a co-ordinated and child-centred way.

Government’s strategy for special educational needs: Removing barriers to achievement

Government vision for giving children with special needs (SEN) and disabilities the opportunity to succeed. Built on the proposal from Every Child Matters and sets a new agenda for improvement and action at the national and local level.

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) resources: Growing and developing

Chapter highlights significant points in physical growth in the early years and indicates experiences, which enhance/constrain healthy bodily development. Particularly highlights, the adeptness, capabilities and determination associated with babies and young children as they seek to satisfy their curiosity and take part in family life will be stressed. Document is a part of the DCSF Research Report Number 444: David, T., Goouch, K., Powell, S. and Abbott, L. (2003) Birth to Three Matters: A Review of the Literature.

Early years foundation stage resources: Health in early years settings

Document explains supporting health in early years settings by giving examples of six developing practices, illustrating how practitioners have gone about developing health-related work.

Norfolk: Helping Foundation Stage children learn through playing activities

Case study highlights the role of parents and practitioners in helping children learn through playing activities. This helps parents understand the deeper levels at which the child functions when learning through play, and enables practitioners and parents to provide appropriate activities to develop the child’s interests at the setting and at home.

EYFS resources