Early Years Foundation Stage: School Policies and Procedures Report

This report delves into the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), examining its impact on school policies, particularly concerning safeguarding and welfare. It highlights the significance of EYFS in setting standards for learning, development, and care for children from birth to four years old. The report emphasizes the need for schools to establish policies and procedures that ensure child safety and well-being, including the recruitment of qualified staff and the provision of a healthy learning environment. It references key resources like Audley (2020) and LEVEL (2019) to support its arguments, underscoring the importance of EYFS in shaping educational practices. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the EYFS framework and its implications for creating a nurturing and supportive environment for young children, ensuring they receive the necessary support for their growth and development.

The Early Years Foundation
Stage
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The way Early year Foundation stage requirement impact on setting school reception year or
policies and procedure for safeguarding and welfare..................................................................3
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Argument
Early year foundation stage set several standard and regulation related to learning,
development and care of child from birth to 4 years old. EYFS clearly state that a child deserve
qualitative food, environment and necessary support from starting of its life so that it can live to
its potential. It can be stated that the early year foundation stage requirements have direct impact
on setting school reception or various policies and procedure so that no harm can be caused to
any child in any circumstances (Audley, 2020). Moreover, it can grow and developed in healthy
and more friendly environment by learning new and new things. As per the requirements of
EYFS, school reception year needs to make several policies and procedure to ensure safety and
well being of child. The requirement of safeguarding and welfare are child protection, well
qualified, trained and good nature staff are recruited in order to teach and learn children. This
also focused on providing necessary support to student as per their interest, needs for their better
education qualification (LEVEL, 2019). It helps school in deciding appropriate procedure that
need to be followed while providing learning to students so that it can easily grasp the
information. Moreover, the EYFS also state that school needs to provide healthy environment to
students so that they are protected form various harm. Thereby the EYFS has set standard
regarding the way learning needs to be delivered to students for their future growth.
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Books and Journals
Audley, S., 2020. Early Years Foundation Stage. Policy.
LEVEL, E., 2019. Early Years Foundation Stage (Doctoral dissertation, INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION).
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