Writing ELG - pressure to make it harder

AnonyMouse_44318 · 2017-01-25T12:36:59+0000

I just need to run something passed other EYFS trained people to help my sanity. I feel (as I'm sure many of us do) that I'm regularly in a battle to fight a "diluted year 1" curriculum rather than EYFS, and treated like I don't know what I'm talking about despite being in EYFS for years, but something happened recently that really bothered me. To cut the issue short, I was given a list of criteria for writing that children 'have to achieve to get the writing ELG'. Yet these are not in the ELG as far as my understanding goes. The two I have the biggest issue with are; 1) Saying children need to use full stops in correct locations. 2) that children need to know "most" of a list of common irregular words and this should be at least 80% of a list I've been given. I disagree with both as the first one (full stops) as this is actually a year 1 objective and isn't mentioned at all in development matters or the ELGs. I disagree with the second one as the ELG says the children use "some common irregular words". 'most' or 80% is specifically for exceeding which states "many irregular high frequency words". I've explained that I absolutely do teach about full stops, and I teach reading and spelling for common irregular words etc, but that I'm not willing to adjust my marking of ELG or not based guidelines which are not ELG! I'm awful at standing up for myself and let a HUGE amount of things slide and give in to often to things I know aren't right (if I'm honest with myself), but is this something I really should be putting my foot down on?

By AnonyMouse_44318
January 25, 2017 in School Curriculum, inspections and General issues

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