Survey: Nutrition and physical activity knowledge and perspectives of practitioners in early years’ settings in the UK

Dear Practitioner,

We would like to invite you to be a part of an impactful research project that we are running here at Coventry University and help create a better start for life for children.

As an early years practitioner, we invite you to take part in the survey below exploring early years practitioners knowledge, practices and perspectives on pre-schoolers' (i.e., children under the age of 5) nutrition and physical activity.

Your anonymous answers will help us structure and inform the development of future health interventions within early years settings in order to promote physical activity and increase the possibility of a better start in life for pre-schoolers. 

Therefore, your expertise, knowledge and honest views as an early years practitioner are extremely valuable and important to us and we value the time you would give us in completing the survey. 

Accessing the survey 

The survey should not take longer than 10 min to complete. Please use the link below to access the survey:

https://coventry.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/50-10-distributionnutrition-and-physical-activity-know 

Contact information

Should you have any concerns or questions, please feel free to contact me at sevele2@uni.coventry.ac.uk or my supervisor and Director of Studies, Prof Michael Duncan, at aa8396@coventry.ac.uk.

Prize draw

We are also offering the opportunity for you to enter a prize draw to win 1 of 5 £10 Amazon vouchers at the end of the survey! 

Further resources on implementing the EYFS reforms

The Department for Education (DfE) have published a small suite of videos on GOV.UK, with messages from DfE, Ofsted and early adopter schools on their experiences in delivering the EYFS reforms and how they have changed their approach to delivering the EYFS, including when completing the EYFS profile assessment.

Susie Owen, Director of Early Years and Childcare (DfE) and Phil Minns, Specialist Adviser, Early Years and Primary (Ofsted) provide a summary of the reforms and the new expectations for early years curriculum and assessment.

Then you’ll hear from school leaders of early adopter schools, as they share their experiences of the EYFS reforms and how they implemented them in their school. You’ll also hear from reception teachers in early adopter schools who share how the reforms have impacted their assessment practices and what was important in their assessments during the early adopter year. Some readers will have seen these case studies in an earlier Foundation Years vodcast on implementation.