Bespoke subjects for EYFS
Schools are able to have their own formative curriculum added to Primary or EYFS in a wide range of subjects. This flexibility allows (eg) a separate SEN curriculum to be added.
In Primary, these subjects can be given a Summative judgement too but this isn't possible in EYFS as subjects can only be the 7 or 17 subjects in Development Matters. As the vast majority of reports are based on Summative judgements, this is unhelpful for EYFS.
Tracey Halsey
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Moorlands Nursery Head Teacher
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As a nursery headteacher who has just set up a personalised curriculum in Sonar, it is not at all helpful to be restricted to 7 or 17 subjects that do not match our nursery need. The point of having an assessment system is that teachers assess to inform planning but leaders report to get an overview of the school priorities. I now cannot do this - so we are forced to go back to working things out by hand, in which case why invest in a system that only does half the job?