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Category Archives: Bold Beginnings
Wagging the Dog
In 1992, the same year that I started my teaching degree, a new organisation was established to inspect standards in education. The national inspectorate known as Ofsted replaced the previous system of inspections, which were carried out by HMIs within … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Bold Beginnings, Children, EYFS, Ofsted
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The Medium and the Message
Just before Christmas, Ofsted published a series of short videos on YouTube about their proposed new Education Inspection Framework, with specific reference to the focus they are going to be putting on Curriculum in future inspections. The Framework is going … Continue reading
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Life in the Sandpit
If you spend any length of time working in the early years sector, you start to get the feeling that you are not seen to be quite as intellectual or rational as those working in other phases. This doesn’t come … Continue reading
Posted in Baseline, Bold Beginnings, Children, EYFS, Play
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