Early Years Foundation Stage

• Engaged with families and external agencies to support the reopening of Taddies, our parent toddler group for children aged up to five years old
• Reinstated a revised biweekly offer of Taddies
• Reshaped the offer to every week to accommodate the increased uptake
• Circulated Taddies leaflets within the community
• Put a request to the educational governance to change DfE status of 3 to 19

• Increased Taddies sessions to twice weekly due to popularity
• Outdoor play scoped through NPQML project 
• Received change in DfE status from 3 to 19 to 2 to 19
• Pilot of school nursery undertaken with three families
   

• The pilot of nursey opened across 5 days, 39 weeks of the year
• Children from Taddies transitioned to school nursery
• The school nursery supported dual early years placements 
• Taddies continued offering support to a growing number of families 
• External EYFS consultant and Surrey EYFS advisory professionals supporting the growth of school nursery
• Outdoor purposeful play driven by the external support of EYFS consultant
• Successful school onward placements to Woodlands, Brooklands, Linden Bridge, The Children's Trust and overseas

• The school nursery officially named ‘Tadworth Tots’ 
• Tadworth Tots remained open for four keyworkers and vulnerable children during COVID -19
• Get Outside and Learn action plan supporting outdoor learning in the EYFS
• CPD opportunities in early years with NNEB qualification 
• Successful school onward placements to Woodlands and Brooklands

• Upskill of staff with NNEB qualification 
• Early years policy aligned to statutory frameworks of the EYFS and Developments Matters 2020
• Successful school onward placements to Woodlands, Tadworth Primary and The Children's Trust

• Taddies supported a further five families having reopened after lockdown 
• Researched and developed a bespoke SEND phonic programme providing sufficient challenges to learners beyond Stage One of phonics
• Onward placements to Fox Grove

'outstanding' Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) practices have been validated by an Ofsted monitoring visit, confirming high educational standards as part of ongoing school improvement efforts

An internally developed digital DEYO (Differentiated Early Years Outcome) workbook was created to facilitate the recording of individual EYFS progress

Onward placements to Woodlands and Beddlesford