School nurseries and reception classes as well as sixth forms are set to be given their own Ofsted ratings under a shake-up of inspections, it has been announced. Did you know with a Digital ...

A good teacher in a reception class means a child is likely to earn more in later life, a study has found. Four-year-olds with the most effective teachers can expect to earn between £2,000 and £7,500 ...

Ministers are overhauling how teachers judge the progress made by pupils by the end of reception class in skills such as listening and speaking, reading, writing and numeracy. Pupils are graded as ...

SOME of the smallest – and largest – reception classes in Flintshire have been settling into school life and making new friends. SOME of the smallest – and largest – reception classes in Flintshire ...

Children entering the school system are increasingly unprepared to spend their first chunk of time away from home. That means extra workload for teachers and their assistants, changing nappies, doing ...

Ofsted is calling on the Department for Education to review the EYFS to ensure it provides ‘sufficient clarity for the effective teaching of reading, writing and numbers’, in a report highly critical ...