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EYFS Communication and Language Audit Pack
EYFS Communication and Language Audit Pack
If you're looking to explore your school's provision and curriculum in Communication and Language for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting learning opportunities to speak, listen, develop their vocabulary and build their early communication skills. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you're looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer.
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What's included in this bundle?
This pack contains two key resources to support your understanding of effective provision for early years children in communication and language. Full 10-page guidance is included and will walk you through:
- What communication and language in the early years is
- What the communication and language early learning goals (ELGs) are
- What communication and language could look like in practice
- How communication and language links to the Year 1 National Curriculum, such as through English reading, writing and spoken language, plus other subjects.
This makes the pack ideal for those who are new to EYFS leadership, or for non-EYFS specialists (such as curriculum leaders) who wish to use the pack to gain a deeper understanding of teaching and learning in the early years foundation stage.
The pack also includes a 15-page editable Communication and Language Audit which provides reflective questions that allow you to consider your current position and your next steps in the following broad areas:
- Communication and Language Overview
- Indoor and Outdoor Learning Environments
- Curriculum Planning
- Staff Knowledge and Professional Development
- Children's Engagement and Outcomes
- National Curriculum Links
- Improvement Planning
Whether you're curious to explore the strengths and weaknesses of your EYFS communication and language provision, or whether you know that communication and language (such as developing oracy and vocabulary) is a development point for your school, this audit pack can help you celebrate your successes and plan for change.
Who will find this resource useful?
EYFS leaders, especially those new to the role, will find this pack extremely useful to explore communication and language in their Reception classes (and a nursery or preschool if the school has one). It can also support KS1 phase leaders, curriculum leads, SLT and headteachers to build a better understanding of how communication and language learning in the early years supports children's development.
What questions does this pack have the answers to?
This pack will help you understand communication and language in the early years foundation stage in more detail by answering the following questions:
- What are the seven areas of learning in the EYFS?
- What is communication and language in the EYFS?
- What does the Early Years Framework say about communication and language?
- What are the communication and language early learning goals (ELGs)?
- How might communication and language look in practice?
- How does communication and language develop into National Curriculum subjects and other areas?
What else can help me?
For more support with leadership in the early years, why not take a look at our other EYFS resources?