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[edit] Core Experiences for the Early Years Foundation Stage

Introduction and welcome

Core Experiences for the Early Years Foundation Stage is a planning framework for early childhood education and care in England. The basic idea is that young children should be able to access a wide range of high-quality experiences every day (or at least very regularly) in nursery. The framework is written to show how these experiences cover all areas of learning and how children might develop and learn as they revisit each experience over time. It also gives guidance to adults in the nursery on how they can support children's development and learning and teach them new skills and concepts. With the "Core Experiences" in place, the practitioners can then start to think about and plan for children individually.

This work has been developed by Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children's Centre in London, England, building on an earlier idea from Southway Nursery School and Children's Centre in Bedfordshire.

[edit] Share and collaborate

In the past most schools and nurseries have kept their work and documents private, meaning that there has been a failure to learn from each other. In case you are unfamiliar with the wiki format, the main thing to know is that anyone can edit, make suggestions, post queries or rate this planning framework. We can share our knowledge and experience and collaborate together. All we ask is that you share alike - let others use your work, and do not use any of our work for commercial gain.

If you work with children in an early years setting, or are interested in early years education and care, we hope you will find this site interesting and useful, and we hope you will contribute your own ideas, and debate some of the important issues and ideas here. As the site develops we will be adding more graphics and pictures - at the moment it is pretty much all text, but keep watching. Soon we will add links to each section so you can download anything you want as a Word document and rewrite it for your own purposes.

As this is a first attempt at wiki creation, please smile on errors and help us to correct them. Thanks.