Putting the EYFS Curriculum into Practice

This best-selling guide is essential reading for early years coordinators, school leaders, setting managers, childminders, and students. It offers practical advice on curriculum design and implementation across the seven areas of learning and development, aligned with the 2024 EYFS statutory framework.

Bringing evidence-informed practice to life, it makes research accessible and ready to put into action.

New to this second edition:

• Chapters fully revised to reflect updates to the EYFS, Development Matters, and broader sector developments.
• New chapters on SEND; English as an additional language; socio-economic disadvantage; and outdoor learning.
  Expanded guidance on evidence-based practice.
• A wide range of case studies from schools, settings, and childminders, demonstrating how research evidence is being translated into everyday practice.

Caroline Vollans< was a primary school teacher, specialising in language and literacy development. She then studied and trained in Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Caroline worked in a hospital as a psychotherapist and secondary school as a counsellor. She is now a freelance writer and editor, especially interested in topics that combine themes of education and psychoanalysis. Caroline’s underlying interest is in giving voice to the unspoken and unheard.

Dr Julian Grenier is the headteacher of Sheringham Nursery School and Children’s Centre in Newham, London. Julian has worked in the early years for the last three decades. He has a doctorate in education (EdD) from the UCL Institute of Education. Julian is a regular columnist for the Times Educational Supplement. He has also contributed regularly to Nursery World and has written and co-written several bestselling books about early childhood education. Julian has advised the Department for Education on early years under Conservative, coalition and Labour administrations. He is the director of the East London Research School.