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Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) Data Collection 2024 

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Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) Data Collection 2023

Schools must complete an EYFS profile for each child. Each child must be assessed against the 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs). Teachers are expected to use their professional judgement to make these assessments, based on their knowledge and understanding of what the child knows, understands, and can do. The goals are there to be used to assess children at the end of reception year, rather than for pre-school children.

The submission period for EYFSP returns from schools to LA is during the week 26 to 30 June. Deadline for schools to return EYFSP is 30 June 2023.

Important Update from the Department for Education (DfE)

Usage of the ‘A’ code during Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) profile assessment

The previous advice incorrectly stated that in certain instances it is down to a teacher’s professional judgement as to whether an accurate assessment can be made or whether it would be more appropriate to use code ‘A’.

It has now been clarified that the EYFS profile must be completed in all instances unless:

  • an exemption has been granted by the secretary of state for the setting or an individual child.
  • the child is continuing in EYFS provision beyond the year in which they turn 5. In these exceptional cases, the EYFS profile should be completed once only, at the end of the year before the child moves into KS1.

 

An ‘A’ should be recorded for every ELG within the profile only when an exemption has been granted.

For further information, practitioners should refer to section 3.2 of the EYFS profile 2023 handbook and for advice on completing the profile for children with SEND please refer to section 3.5. The 2023 guide for submitting EYFS profile assessments will be published later this Spring and will be updated to align with this advice.

For information on obtaining exemptions please refer to our guidance on exemptions for providers and exemptions for individual children.

If you have any further questions about the profile, please contact the EYFS Quality team

Email: exemptions.eyfs@education.gov.uk

Early Learning Goals

The Department requires that the school/setting record an assessment score for each of the 17 Early Learning Goals:

  • Communication and Language
    • Listening, Attention and Understanding
    • Speaking
  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development
    • Self-Regulation
    • Managing Self
    • Building Relationships
  • Physical Development
    • Gross Motor Skills
    • Fine Motor Skills
  • Literacy
    • Comprehension
    • Word Reading
    • Writing
  • Mathematics
    • Number
    • Numerical Patterns
  • Understanding the World
    • Past and Present
    • People Culture and Communities
    • The Natural World
  • Expressive Arts and Design
    • Creating with Materials
    • Being Imaginative and Expressive

Further information on these ELG’s can be found on the DfE handbook on pages 19 to 22.

For all Tower Hamlets schools, the EYFSP results should be logged in your Schools MIS and exported and sent to the LA on or before the deadline. For all the Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) settings – please contact the LA to receive an Excel template that you can complete and return to us.

Tower Hamlets schools & PVIs should Submit EYFSP returns to the LA via USO-Fx2 or DfE’s S2S system. Note if you send via S2S please email the LA to inform us you have done so.

Finally, please remember that the DFE and the STA require that all data must be checked by head teachers before submission.

Please return to either kluong.211 or ehowlett6.211 via USO-Fx2 or S2S. If you are sending through S2S, please inform us by email at:  educationdataqueries@towerhamlets.gov.uk

The following documents will help you complete the return:

Further guidance

The Department for Education (DfE) has published exemplification materials to provide support for schools when completing the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) assessment for children at the end of reception year.

A vodcast for schools, multi-academy trusts and local authorities (LAs) has also been published, alongside the videos, to explain the changes that were made in 2021

The videos are designed to help schools understand and use the new early learning goals (ELGs) and profile assessment under the 2021 early years foundation stage (EYFS) framework.

The EYFSP handbook sets out the statutory requirements for the EYFSP assessment in the 2022/23 academic year.