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Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.

Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships ..

Children learn and develop  well in enabling environments ,  in which  their experiences respond to their individual needs  and there  is a strong  partnership between  practitioners and parents and  carers .

Children develop and learn  in different  ways. The framework covers the education and  care of  all children in early  years provision ,  including children with special educational  needs and  disabilities. Practitioners  teach children by ensuring challenging,  playful opportunities  across the prime and specific areas of learning and development.

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PRIME AREAS                  SPECIFIC AREAS

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1)      PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT    (  PSED )

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3) UNDERSTANDING                 THE              WORLD 3)

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…the process of gathering and  analysing  information about what children know, can do and understand. It is part of an ongoing cycle that includes planning, documenting and evaluating children’s learning  Source: Early Years Learning Framework for Australia (EYLF), DEEWR 2009, p. 17.

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Assessment allows professionals to: use/interpret evidence to identify what children already know, can do and are ready to learn monitor children’s progress and achievements over time make decisions about experiences and opportunities to advance learning and development in response to individual children’s strengths, abilities, interests and needs identify children who may benefit from additional or  specialised  support and what these supports should be

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Assessment  of  learning and development Assessment  as  learning and development  Assessment  for  learning and development All types of assessment strategies contribute to assessment for learning and development

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S ummarises   what children know, understand and can do at a particular point in time Assssment  as learning and development Occurs  when professionals involve children actively in assessing their learning and development Assessment for learning and  development Is a continuous process of finding out what children know, understand, and can do in order to plan  what next , building on previous learning and supporting new learning

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Collect  information (formative assessment)

Assessment requires professionals to collect information about children’s learning and development using a range of strategies and tools  including: observations (for example, running records, anecdotal records) conversations and interviews with children samples of children’s work Checklists Level list The ongoing assessment tool used by practitioners in the Westminster school Dubai is the Target Tracker.

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video or audio recordings of children’s conversations or play webs of children’s ideas about a topic from initial discussions and throughout a project photographs event and time sampling tests conversations with families, colleagues and other professionals

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At the Westminster school we use BASE as the International Benchmark Assessments and which is done at the entry level soon after the students settle into the new environment to see their starting points. BASE is conducted again towards the end of the academic year , in the month of May to ascertain the progress made over time.

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Collect
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Review
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Decide  what  to do next based on your  analysis and  discussions with others and on the understanding that the child’s experience across the entire session or day matters and needs to be planned for   I mplement plans using intentional strategies to ensure children’s learning

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Early Years quiz for induction. What is EYFS? What are the Prime Areas of learning? What are the Specific Areas of learning? The EYFS curriculum is for which age group? What are the Early Learning goals? How do you think children learn? What do you understand by assessments? What type of assessments do you do in the Early Years?

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F or further information about Early Years below are some useful link useful Links:

https :// www.gov.je/Education/Schools/ChildLearning/Pages/FoundationStage.aspx   https:// www.early education.org.uk/development-matters

EYFS
(Early Years Foundation Stage)

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 https :// www.gov.je/Education/Schools/ChildLearning/Pages/FoundationStage.aspx   https:// www.early education.org.uk/development-matters  

EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage)

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