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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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‘Mind the gap – getting our children ready for school’ from Save the Children

Read this article and make notes on some of the factors that can impact children’s readiness for school.

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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’.