THEORIES AND UNDERPINNING THE EYFS

Discussing the Theories and Underpinning the EYFS in Relation to Developing and Supporting each Child

Discussing the Theories and Underpinning the EYFS in Relation to Developing and Supporting Each Child

The Theories and Principles Underpinning the EYFS In Relation To Developing and Supporting Each Child as an Individual

The EYFS is a single value structure for children from birth to the age of five. It brings simultaneously and restores Birth to Three Matters, the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage and the National Standards for under 8s Day Care and Childminding. From September 2008 it will be mandatory for all early years' providers including maintained schools, non-maintained schools, unaligned schools and childcare listed by Ofsted on the Early Years Register.

The EYFS is for all children and all practitioners and identifies that the individual and intimate way in which childminders work with a couple of children in their own dwellings presents a wealthy and diverse experience. Examples of productive practice are granted throughout the EYFS from the full range of settings including childminders. (Elfer 2002 45)

 

The Aim of the EYFS

The overarching objective of the EYFS is to assist juvenile children accomplish the five Every Child Matters outcomes to:

Be healthy;

Stay safe;

Enjoy and achieve;

Make a affirmative contribution and

Achieve financial well-being.

The EYFS will accomplish this objective by a honourable set about to:

Setting standards;

Promoting equality of opportunity;

Creating a structure for joint project working;

Improving value and consistency;

Laying a protected foundation for future

Learning and development.

 

The EYFS Principles

The EYFS has four themes: A Unique Child, Positive Relationships, Enabling Environments and Learning and Development. Each topic has an overarching Principle.

 

Theme: A Unique Child

Principle: Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, adept, assured and self-assured.

 

Theme: Positive Relationships

Principle: Children discover to be powerful and unaligned from groundwork of loving and protected relationships with parents and/or a key person. (Palaiologou 2010 256)

 

Theme: Enabling Environments

Principle: The natural environment performances a key function in supporting and extending children's development and learning.

 

Theme: Learning and Development

Principle: Children evolve and discover in distinct modes and at distinct rates and all localities of Learning and Development are identically significant and interconnected. Each Principle concerns to all children from birth. Each Principle is sustained by four firm promises that recount how the Principle can be put into practice. They are all clarified and discovered in more deepness on the Principles into Practice cards and the CD-ROM. (Fisher 2002 35)

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is a period characterised in Section 39 of the British government's Childcare Act 2006. The EYFS comprises a set of Welfare Requirements and a set of Learning and Development Requirements, which should be pursued by providers of look after young children underneath 5 years vintage - the age of compulsory learning in the United Kingdom. The Welfare and Learning and Development obligations are not particular in the Act but in distinct Orders

The legislation is due to take result from September 2008. The Welfare obligations request to the entire of the UK, but ...