Posts by Maddy Kennedy
Early Years Conference 2026 North Tyneside
Annual Early Years Conference 2026 North Tyneside Education North Tyneside has proudly hosted an Early Years Conference every year of this millennium and before. Over the years, the conference has welcomed leading keynote speakers such as Sally Featherstone, Alistair Bryce Clegg, and Jean Gross. Each event explores a wide range of key early years themes,…
Read MoreEarly Years Cluster Meetings
Our Education North Tyneside Early Years Team lead termly cluster meetings and all educators and leaders in early years are welcome to attend. Local schools sharing their practice The meetings are hosted by our schools and they kindly all lead an agenda item about an aspect of current practice in their school. The wider…
Read MoreEducation North Tyneside Early Years Conference
The Education North Tyneside Annual Early Years Conference was held on 28th March at The Linskill Centre. 100 delegates attended from across North Tyneside, from regional authorities and North East Combined Authority. Speakers The keynote speaker was early years consultant and expert Ruth Swailes. Workshops were led by New York Primary School, Shooting Stars Childcare,…
Read MoreThe government’s wraparound care offer for families
The government has an aspiration that all primary school aged children (4 – 11 years) in England, will be able to access wraparound care from 8 am to 6 pm. What would this wraparound care look like? It would be during term time. It would be provision such as breakfast clubs and regular after school…
Read MoreThe Early Years Foundation Stage Profile
New to the Profile The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Profile is a statutory assessment of children’s development at the end of the academic year in which children turn 5. This assessment is usually undertaken by reception teachers, but on rare occasions, other early years settings would need to complete the Profile if it is not…
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