hi just on sky news and they have a bit on wanting to scrap the eyfs ( have your cries been heard)
Child psychologists want a review of new curriculum which says children should begin learning aged four.
Learning will begin earlierFrom September 2008, the Early Years Foundation Curriculum will be a legal requirement for under fives in England.
Under the new framework, more than 500 tasks and skills must be adopted by all nurseries and childminders.
Dr Richard House, psycotherapy and counselling lecturer at Roehampton University, says the requirements are not appropriate for children under five.
And Lobby group Open Eye warned the framework was too rigid, too prescriptive and too much for children who were too young.
It fears it will cause unnecessary stress for youngsters and adversely affect their interest in learning.
However Carol Medcalf who runs the Carol Jane Montessori Nursery in north London says it will not change the way children are looked after.
" Ofsted don't want children to be sitting down, writing and joining the dots, that's what they're against. They are very for free play, children finding their own way, staff doing a lot of observation on the child to see what stage they're at and introduce and individual curriculum for them. It definitely doesn't stop them running around having fun."
Children's minister Beverley Hughes MP defends the curriculum.
She says: "We need to be able to give assurances to parents that wherever their child is, there's a set of standards for that nursery to work to, to make sure the child is safe, happy, playing, and everyone is working to achieve the same quality."
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