“Specific Strategic Focus” on Early Years from Ofsted’s Chief Inspector

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At the Nursery World Business Summit on 8th March, Amanda Spielman said that early years is "the area in which our work can have the most impact", adding that the sector could, at times, feel "undervalued and overlooked". She continued: "Our curriculum reviews in schools have helped developed conceptions of high-quality education in different subjects. Referencing the impact of COVID-19 on younger children, she said, “it was a "stark thought" that children turning two "have spent their entire life in the context of a pandemic" and their early years had been "considerably different from what we have previously expected a normal early childhood to look like". Ms Spielman also stressed the importance of both play and reading aloud when talking to an early years audience; "Listening to a well-read story is a joy most of us will remember from childhood," she said. It helps to give children a love of stories and reading, as well as some much-wanted attention."

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