Resolutions
AGM 2003
1. Early
Education urges Ofsted to bring together the two early education inspection frameworks
currently in use with an emphasis on the quality of learning, wellbeing and teaching for
children.
2. Early
Education resolves to lobby government in particular the DfES and QCA to:
clarify contradictory
messages received by reception class teachers from the National Strategies, Ofsted, LEA
advisors and the Foundation Stage Guidance
provide foundation stage
training and professional development for practitioners working with young children who
are not trained in the phase
ensure that data collected
from the foundation stage profile is used to enhance children’s learning and
progress, rather than simply to measure and compare their achievements
3. Early
Education welcomes the intention of the Welsh Assembly to adopt the foundation phase for
children aged 3-7. It resolves to lobby Central Government and other relevant parties to
consider adopting a similar policy in England especially in light of the experience of
European and southern hemisphere countries who have later starting ages and lower levels
of illiteracy and social disaffection.
4. Early
Education in Scotland proposes an urgent national review of the pay, conditions and career
structure of all nursery nurses.
5. Early
Education in England acknowledges the valuable and crucial role of nursery nurses in the
early years childcare and education sector and proposes an urgent national review of their
career structure, pay and conditions.
6. Early
Education propose that all maintained nursery classes are staffed with an early
years-trained teacher and that appropriately trained nursery nurses/teaching assistants
should work together in their complementary roles.
7. As music
and singing are an integral part of young children’s life long well being and
learning, Early Education calls for appropriate and rigorous music education to be a
significant part of the initial and in-service training of all those who work with
children in the early years
8. Early
Education welcomes the recently published Green Paper ‘Every Child Matters’ and
will lobby to ensure that the importance of high quality early educational experiences are
reflected in workforce reforms.
9. Early
Education welcomes the importance placed on creativity across the curriculum in
‘Excellence and Enjoyment the Primary Strategy’. We urge QCA to review the use
of the term creativity in the Foundation Stage Guidance to ensure a similar
cross-curricular approach
10. The North
West region proposes the further development of partnership between all agencies working
with young children to create ‘joined up thinking’ and solidarity in the 0-8
field and achieve more effective communication. Agencies include LEA’s, EYDCPs, Sure
Start Initiatives, Health and Social Services, Ofsted, the training sector, NCMA, Pre
School Learning Alliance, NDNA and Early Education.
11. Early
Education believes that all children from birth to eight in early years settings have the
right to daily access to a designated, stimulating and well-organised adjacent outdoor
environment and proposes that:
the provision of an adjacent
outdoor environment is a requirement of registration under the National Standards for
Daycare and Childminding and that the quality of experience for children outdoors is
reported in all inspections
all children in the
Foundation Stage have direct access to a designated and stimulating outdoor environment
adults working with young
children must undertake initial and ongoing professional development to support their
awareness and ability to unlock the potential of the outdoors for children.
Election of officers
Manny Lewis was elected Chair
Bernadette Duffy was elected Joint Vice Chair
Anne McDermott was re-elected Joint Vice Chair
Chris Boustead re-elected Treasurer
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