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Understand factors affecting children’s readiness for school / Understand areas of learning and development in relation to the current framework / Understand the assessment process in relation to the current framework

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‘What is school readiness?’ webpage on Early Years Careers website

Click to read this article about how practitioners play a part in school readiness.

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Read ‘Improving school readiness: Creating a better start for London’ from Public Health England. You do not need to read the statistics for London but reflect on the facts on the importance of school readiness and some of the factors that impact it.
Click to read this article from the Early Years Alliance with findings that ‘Half of all children are “not ready to start school”, YouGov survey suggests’. Does this article agree with what you have experienced in settings?
Ofsted produced ‘Are you ready? Good practice in school readiness’.