ICT Resources for Early Years Foundation Stage have now been launched. You can view the resources by topic e.g. Bear Hunt, Supermarket role-play, Mouse and keyboard skills; or by ICT resource e.g. Microphone, Interactive Whiteboard, Programmable Toys Click here to visit the ICT Resources for Early Years Foundation Stage Home Page where you can access all the newly created resources.

The newly published Early Years Foundation Stage materials and guidance can be viewed and downloaded by visiting the Early Years Foundation Stage home page.

The Early Years Foundation Stage brings together the Birth to Three Matters (BTTM) framework, the Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage (CGFS) and the National standards for under 8s day care and childminding (the national standards) in a single quality framework for children from birth to the end of the school Reception year. It will be statutory from September 2008, when all providers must comply with its requirements. In the meantime, Foundation Stage practitioners should continue to use the CGFS and/or Birth to Three Matters as well as the national standards where appropriate. The Framework for literacy and mathematics remains as guidance and is not statutory, although it complements EYFS. Foundation Stage practitioners need to take account of all six interdependent Areas of Learning and Development, giving them all equal status.

For information and resources about how ICT can be used to support learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage, visit our ICT in the Early Years Foundation Stage page.

More information and resources for the six Areas of Learning and Development can be found by following the links below.