Progress Matters

Progress Matters

Early Years leaders and practitioners can use these materials to help track and review the progress of individual children throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This includes examples of effective practice in tracking children's progress and a monitoring tool to track individual children in line with the EYFS principles.

• Progress matters: Reviewing and enhancing young children's development

  Materials to help leaders and managers support young children's progress in line with the principles of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework. This is part of 'Progress Matters'.

  • Introduction

  • Reviewing progress

  • Gathering information

  • Using information

  • Summarising information

  • Using summary information to support children’s progress

• Progress monitor

  This monitoring tool can be used by leaders and mangers to check the progress of children across the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

• Proforma 1: Progress summary

  You can use this proforma to summarise the observations, information and evidence collected for individual children in order to track their progress over time. This is part of 'Progress Matters'.

• Proforma 2: Group overview

  An at-a-glance sheet you can use to view individual and group development bands over time in your Early Years setting.

• Proforma 3: Progress by area of learning

  An at-a-glance sheet you can use to view individual and group development bands, according to each area of learning, over time in your Early Years setting.

• Ben's profile

  One example of a ‘learning journey’ that shows the kinds of observational evidence and parental contributions that can make up the information drawn on for summarising a child’s progress through the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).