Useful practitioner resources

Useful Practitioner resources

Resources and guidance for Tower Hamlets' early years settings delivering the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory framework.

On this page you will find useful resources and guidance around:

• Early Years Foundation Stage
• Statutory documents
• Children's learning and development
• Early Years Inclusion
• Tower Hamlets person-centred formats
• Publications
• Who are the Area Inclusion Coordinators?
• Healthy Early Years London
• Safeguarding
• Two-year-old integrated review
• Other useful resources
• For parents
• General
• Presentations 
• Publications
• Research

Early Years Foundation Stage

Statutory documents

• EYFS early adopter framework
• Early Years and Childcare Registration handbook
• EYFS Profile Early Adopter  Handbook
• Early Years Foundation Stage Assessment and Reporting Arrangements (ARA)
• Early Years Inspection handbook from September 2015
• Early learning goal 1 - listening and attention
• Early learning goal 2 - understanding
• Early learning goal 3 - speaking
• Early learning goal 4 - moving and handling
• Early learning goal 5 - health and self-care
• Early learning goal 6 - self-confidence and self-awareness
• Early learning goal 7 - managing feelings and behaviour
• Early learning goal 8 - making relationships
• Early learning goal 9 - reading
• Early learning goal 10 - writing
• Early learning goal 11 - numbers
• Early learning goal 12 - shapes space and measures
• Early learning goal 13 - people and communities
• Early learning goal 14 - the world
• Early learning goal 15 - technology
• Early learning goal 16 - exploring and using media and materials
• Early learning goal 17 - being imaginative
• EYFS learning journey - listening and attention
• EYFS learning journey - reading
• EYFS learning journey - speaking
• EYFS learning journey - understanding
• EYFS learning journey - writing

Children's learning and development

• Working with the revised EYFS: Principles into Practice (includes Development Matters)
• Children's learning and development - Baby's First Word
• Children's learning and development - Early Words Together brochure
• Children's learning and development - Bilingualism: Frequently Asked Questions
• Tower Hamlets Early Years - ETHCaT Individual Child Monitoring Tool
• Tower Hamlets Early Years - More to Maths the counting booklet
• Tower Hamlets Early Years - Moving On: Supporting Children's Transitions in the Early Years
• Tower Hamlets School readiness

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Early Years Inclusion

Tower Hamlets person-centred formats

• Inclusion Person-centred formats - Tower Hamlets Tips for Parents - My profile, My plan and review
• Inclusion Person-centred formats - Tower Hamlets My profile 
• Inclusion Person-centred formats - Tower Hamlets My plan and review 
• Inclusion Person-centred formats - Tower Hamlets My transition profile 

If you would like copies of the these formats, please email one of the Area Inclusion Coordinators. 

Publications

• Tower Hamlets Equality Guidance for Early Years Settings
• Tower Hamlets Guidance for Early Years Inclusion Coordinators
• Tower Hamlets Person-centred planning with children and young people

• Guidance on Continence and Intimate Care in Early Years Settings and Schools

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Who are the Area Inclusion Coordinators?

Healthy Early Years London

• Healthy Early Years London Quality Assurance Programme

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Safeguarding

• Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub Information Poster 

• Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) Poster

• Fundamental British Values in the Early Years

• Supplementary Guidance for Schools and Education Settings on Child Protection Procedures 
  

• Supplementary Guidance for Schools and Education Settings on Managing Allegations of Abuse
  

• The Prevent duty - advice for schools and childcare providers - June 2015 

• What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused  - advice for practitioners - March 2015

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Two year old Integrated Review

• Moving On: Supporting Children's Transitions in the Early Years - Tower Hamlets Early Years

• Two Year Old Integrated Review - Pathway for Childrens Centres

• Two Year Old Integrated Review - Pathway for early years settings

• Two Year Old Integrated Review Parent feedback form

• Two Year Old Integrated Review - Leaflet - A parent's guide

• Two Year Old Integrated Review - Review form and guidance (MS Word)

• Two Year Old Integrated Review - Sample Letters

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Other useful resources

For parents

• 4Children Parents Guide - what to expect, when.

• Parents Guide to the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework Whose meaning matters?

General

• Early years foundation stage profile 2019 Handbook- EYFSP

• Letter from Early Excellence to all LAs and schools

• Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being scales publication flyer

Presentations

• Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being scales Presentation - Pauline Hoare

Publications

• Children take centre stage, Our East End - Issue two, September 2016

Research

• EPPE Final Report

• EPPSE Final Report - EPPSE 3 to 14 final report from the key stage 3 phase: influences on students' development from age 11 to 14

• EPPSE - Pre-school and early home learning: effects on A level outcomes

• The Foundation Years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults

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