Throughout
the foundation stage, as part of the learning and teaching process,
practitioners need to assess each child´s
development in relation to the stepping stones and early learning goals
that form part of the Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage.
These assessments are made on the basis of the practitioner´s
accumulating observations and knowledge of the whole child. By the end
of the final year of the foundation stage, the Foundation stage Profile
will provide a way of summing up that knowledge.
Six
areas of learning
The
Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage sets out six areas of
learning covering children´s physical, intellectual,
emotional and social development.
All six of
these areas of learning are included in the Profile.
communication,
language and literacy.
Mathematical
development.
Knowledge
and understanding of the world.
Physical
development.
Creative
development.
A record
of children´s development across all of these areas provides
a picture of the whole child at the end of the foundation satge