Product Description

The Early Years Foundation Stage brings new expectations to ensure that every child is provided with the best support for their learning and development, from birth to five and beyond.

Practical skills in observing, making assessments and using these assessments in planning are essential for all practitioners working with young children. Vicky Hutchin offers clear guidance and advice on all aspects of assessment and planning in the early years, rooted firmly in the well-established principles of good practice and recent research.

With plenty of real observations of children learning across the age range, Vicky explains the essential processes for effective assessment and planning, including different ways of observing as well as how best to involve parents and the children themselves – even the very youngest. Most importantly, she shows how to make these processes manageable, covering a wide range of different types of settings - from childminder to playgroup, nursery, children’s centre and reception class. She also considers the new statutory summative assessment, the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile, and how to ensure the assessment is used effectively to support planning in Year 1.

This book follows on from Vicky's previous books Right from the Start and Observing and Assessing for the Foundation Stage Profile in showing how rewarding effective assessment and planning is for all concerned – the children, their families and the practitioners involved.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35393 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Vicky Hutchin is currently Foundation Stage Regional Adviser with the Primary National Strategy. 

Vicky taught in nursery and Reception classes for many years, becoming a LEA Adviser in Early Years, first in Kensington & Chelsea, then Islington, before then becoming Senior Early Years Consultant to the London Borough of Merton. A popular speaker and trainer, she has written three books on Early Years assessment for H&S (see below). She has also contributed to the 'official' training materials for the Early Years Foundation Stage and the EYFS Profile.

Customer Reviews

Useful guide to EYFS
This book gives a clear explanation of the EYFS and what is expected from practitioners. It goes through the principles and what the implications are for a setting. It has lots of examples of different types of observations from many settings and how the EYFS can be managed in different settings. I liked the examples of a parents' questionaire and questions to elicit reflective answers from children.

EYFS
This book is great for planning and observations it helps link these together and is great for all early years settings. I am a childminder and found it a very useful tool to support the new EYFS.