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Sep 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It is not okay for a DfE funded website to list an incorrect set of 'subjects' for #EYFS. The *areas of learning* are set out in the *Statutory Framework*. Please retweet if you would like @OakNational to correct this. Image
Thanks to everyone who has retweeted this. I'm really hoping that @OakNational will notice my message in their notifications and get this sorted because lots of us have asked politely many times. #RespectEYFS
I've been getting a bit of kick back for calling this out so publicly but the thing is lots of us have been trying quietly to get this resolved for years. Here I am asking politely in 2020. ⬇️
Thanks again to everyone for the retweets. I got what you might call a 'holding' reply but it just needs sorting as a priority. I don't see why there should be any more delays. 🤷‍♀️

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Nov 19, 2021
I think I've figured out why @Ofstednews is in such a mess around curriculum in the early years. The problem is all about their definition of learning. #thread 1/n 🧵 ⬇️
They want to believe that learning is about memorising a linear sequence of 'knowledge items' so they can say that 'progression' is about moving along that line. ('Curriculum is the progression model'). 2/n ⬇️
But learning in the early years definitely doesn't work like that. It's about care and development, not just about subject-based learning. Child development isn't linear, nor is it just about memory. 3/n ⬇️
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Oct 7, 2021
Okay, so here's where we are with @educationgovuk as far as I'm concerned. 🧵

Their behaviour towards children, parents and staff is completely reckless. Basically no real Covid mitigations while case numbers rage and children are hospitalised. 1/n
While government kind of claims to want to do something about systemic misogyny against women and girls (if they could remember the definition), we get this rubbish from @nadhimzahawi. 2/n
That's the same @nadhimzahawi who attended the men only sexism fest that is the 'President's Club'. And then claimed he was a changed man. 🙄 3/n
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Mar 16, 2021
Okay I'm going to take a deep breath, post this, and then go into the garden for a few hours. Some things that men can do to better support women on social media and more generally. 1/n #thread ⬇️
1. Consider who you retweet and in what way. What does your attitude to women's/WoC's voices look like?
2. If women object to what you thought was a joke, don't shrug it off, say it was 'just bantz' or claim they are over reacting. 2/n
3. Don't share review lists of all/mostly men. (Here's a handy list because women write education books too: suecowley.co.uk/100-female-edu…).
4. Challenge the person who shared the list so that a woman don't have to do it. 3/n
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Sep 7, 2020
I'm going to spend some of today reading the new #DevelopmentMatters in depth and tweeting some extracts/questions. Currently pondering this bit - how do we define "high-quality play"?
Sitting here with copies of the old and new versions of #DevelopmentMatters in front of me. One obvious observation is that the old version feels much easier to 'dip in and out' of, because of the way that it's structured.
I think that diagrams like this, from the front of the old #DevelopmentMatters are really useful in helping people conceptualise how it all hangs together in #EYFS.
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Jan 17, 2019
Another short(ish) thread about #Ofsted ... I no longer have any faith (and I never had much) in the impartiality of the inspectorate.
As far as I’m concerned, this is not what an ‘evidence informed’ organisation looks like - this is an ideological inspectorate that has a view and quotes only the evidence that backs it up.
The research quoted to support the new frameworks has a worrying circularity – it quotes reports commissioned by the DfE, and research done by Ofsted’s own Director of Research.
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Apr 11, 2018
I've been asked to send @educationgovuk an email with my questions about the #baselinetest. Here's a thread of the questions I've asked so far.
1. Will parental consent be requested to test the children and to gather and store the data, given the fact that they will not be of compulsory school age?
2. If parental consent is not requested, why is this being assumed in the absence of specific consent being given to process the data? On what 'lawful basis' will the data be gathered?
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