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Early Years Admissions	EYFS Leadership & Management Seminars	New Inclusion Development Twilight Programme
	News, Events & Meetings		Young in Herts Conferences
Networks	New Material to Support Observational Assessment Twilight	Nursery Learning Record Update

EYFS: Leadership and Management Seminars

Half-Termly
Time: 4.00pm-6.00pm
Cost: £75
(£50 for 07/08 FS Co-ordinator delegates)

Local Venues

These half-termly seminars will continue to focus on leadership and management issues faced by leaders and managers of the Early Years Foundation Stage. (Previously known as the FS Co-ordinator Seminars).

All sessions will be facilitated by a member of the EYFS advisory team and will take place in local venues across the 10 districts of Hertfordshire.

Over the 2008/09 academic year, there will be 5 sessions in each of the 10 districts. There will be a one-off charge of £75 to cover all five sessions, the first of which will take place in the second half-term in Autumn 2008. Schools will be charged following signed attendance.

Please return the completed form overleaf as an expression of interest to:
Darren Nottingham, Hertfordshire Development Centre, Robertson House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, SG1 2FQ or email darren.nottingham@hertscc.gov.uk

• Word 2003, 1.35MB/2 pages, 03/09/2008, eyfs_leadership_seminars.doc

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Nursery Learning Record: Training, Moderation and Data Update

Over the next year practitioners will continue to use the Nursery Learning Record (NLR) to assess pupil attainment on entry to Nursery classes.  New assessment materials for use with EYFS are being developed and will be made available for use once pilot projects have been completed. Training on how to use these new materials will also be available later in the year.

The following letter contains the key points that are important to those settings intending to use the NLR as an assessment tool.

• Word 2003, 56kb/2 pages, 03/09/2008, nursery_learning_record_letter_aug08.doc

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Early Years Admissions

A leaflet to support settings in recognising and ensuring quality for all

This short leaflet contains guidance to support settings who have changed their admission policy by admitting children into reception at a single point of entry. We hope it will be a useful checklist to all schools with the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage in September. Earlier admission cannot be considered without careful planning for the needs of these younger children. Research shows that there are significant risks to these children’s future outcomes and well-being if these issues are ignored.

The leaflet has been produced by the Hertfordshire Early Years Team in consultation with a group of early years practitioners and Head teachers from a variety of settings. The issues considered are supported as key issues both by current research and by the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) documentation.

An example of supporting evidence is given alongside the key issue but there are many more to be found in the document itself.

• Adobe pdf, 574kb/2 pages, 29/07/2008, early_years_admissions.pdf

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Young in Herts Conferences

For queries about any of our conferences please contact the Early Years Team on Tel: 01438 844795

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Networks

Foundation Stage Leader Networks – Autumn Term 2008
(dates to follow)

Area Senco clusters – clusters will be organised locally with Area Senco’s.
Details of new Network meetings will be sent out to all Settings termly. If you would like any further information please contact the Early Years Team on Tel: 01438 844795

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