EY Lead Practitioner Role
The Warwickshire Early Years Hub (WEYH) is opening up a new recruitment round for Early Years Lead Practitioners. This is open to all EY practitioners in a non-teacher role. Candidates will need to have been working in the Early Years for at least 5 years, including 2 years at a supervisory/managerial level.
For more information about the role, what deployments will look like and how to apply, please see information below or contact the WEYH Coordinator Michelle Hutton for further details.
Please do pass details on to colleagues who you think would be interested and meet the criteria.
The EYLP recruitment round opens on Monday 23rd May and closes on Friday 10th June.
Interviews will take place w/c 20th June or 27th June.
Coventry and Central Warwickshire Teaching School Hub Newsletter (Primary)
Please find here the latest newsletter of Coventry and Central Warwickshire Teaching School Hub. In this edition you will find information on the ECF Programme, NPQ and CPD courses relevant to primary schools. Please share this newsletter widely throughout your school.
Expressive arts and design
Access resources, activity ideas and advice for teaching expressive arts and design to early years children.
Resources are split into 3 areas based on the educational programmes:
These resources will help you when reviewing your current curriculum to make sure you are meeting the requirement of the revised expressive arts and design area of learning.
As you make changes to your curriculum consider what you want children to learn first and plan opportunities for them to achieve this.
For more please read here.
Words for Life
Visit Words for Life to discover fun activities for children aged 0-12 to try at home.
Qualifications that overlap with T Levels
Government have issued a list of qualifications which it plans to stop funding following the introduction of T-levels.
This includes a number of BTECs in childcare.
Read the guidance here.
Education, health and care plans
DfE has published data showing that the number of children under 5 with an Education and Health Care Plan increased from 16,536 in 2021 to 18,054 in 2022 (3.8% of the total issued). 2,518 of these were in non-maintained early years settings.
Overall, there has been a 10% increase since 2021.
Read the report here.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s socioemotional well-being and attainment during the Reception Year
The Education Endowment Foundation has published The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children’s socioemotional well-being and attainment during the Reception Year.
This unsurprisingly found that a sample of children who entered Reception in 2020 had on average lower outcomes than children achieved pre-pandemic.
Read the research here.
Investing in prevention
NCB has published a report that demonstrates that investing in prevention, including family support and early help, can reduce demand for more expensive crisis support later on. It also leads to better services overall.
Read more here.