EYFS guidance

Please see below for a list of free resources from National Strategies, developed to help you run a successful nursery business and support you in delivering the EYFS. These documents offer guidance in areas such as providing provision for children from a traveller background, supporting children with English as a second language and helping boys to achieve more.

• Building Futures: Developing trust - a focus on provision for children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds in the EYFS
• Building Futures: Believing in children - a focus on provision for Black children in the EYFS
• Supporting children learning English as an additional language
• Learning, Playing and Interacting - Good Practice in the EYFS
• Children thinking mathematically: PSRN essential knowledge for Early Years practitioners
• Confident, Capable and Creative: supporting boys' achievements
• Mark Making Matters - Young children making meaning in all areas of learning and development
• Progress Matters - Reviewing and enhancing young children's development
• Letters and Sounds - Phase One
• Social and Emotional Aspects of Development - Early Years Practitioners
• Early Years Quality Improvement Support Programme (EYQISP) Guidance
• Effective Practice: Parents as Partners in Early Learning
• Inclusion Development Programme - Supporting children on the autism spectrum: Guidance for practitioners in the EYFS
• Communication, Language and Literacy Development programme - Materials for practitioners
• Finding and exploring children's fascinations - Strengthening the quality of gifted and talented provision in the early years
• Challenging practice to further improve learning, playing and interacting in the EYFS
• EYFS a competent learner
• EYFS All about... Messy Play
• EYFS effective practive: creativity and critical thinking
• EYFS effective practice: active learning
• EYFS growing and developing
• EYFS inclusion checklist for settings
• EYFS keeping safe
• EYFS effective practice: The Learning Environment
• EYFS effective practice: Multi agency working
• EYFS effective practice: Observation, Assessing and Planning
• EYFS effective practice: Outdoor Learning
• EYFS Planning from Birth - all about me
• EYFS Explanation of Planning Process: Provision for 2 year olds
• EYFS effective practice: Respecting Each Other
• EYFS A Skilful Communicator
• EYFS effective practice: Supporting Learning
• EYFS All About...transitions
• EYFS What quality looks like - Poster
• EYFS what we can learn from attachment research
• EYFS Improving quality and raising standards in the Early Years: A directory of resources for local authorities
• EYFS Learning, Playing and Interacting