It is currently subject to a government-commissioned review led by Dame Clare Tickell, which is calling for evidence until the end of September. She reports her findings next spring.
There was plenty of carping around the launch of EYFS two years ago, when it was dubbed by the press as the "nappy curriculum". Nursery staff were caricatured as carrying clipboards around to assess children. Since then, things seem to have settled down. EYFS is certainly prescriptive, with four guiding principles and no less than 69 learning goals.
The review will need to question forensically which elements work for practitioners and ultimately young children, and which blatantly don’t. It will need to address also how EYFS applies to groups that have found it particularly difficult to accommodate. Chief among these are Montessori nurseries, play workers and childminders.
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