We have just published an insightful article by Penny Tassoni called 'Reducing Educational Disadvantage'. For those of you familiar with Penny's work you will not be surprised to read the carefully considered points and the practical sugges…
We have just published a new article written for us by Julian Grenier: "If you don’t have one of those big personalities that can enthuse and amuse, do you end up feeling rather inadequate compared to that “inspiring” conference speak…
Yesterday FSF attended the consultation launch from Ofsted's South East team regarding the proposed new Education Inspection Framework. All the draft documents are available here along with the speech made by HMCI Amanda Spielman at th…
We attended the APPG last Wednesday at Westminster along with the PLA, CACHE, Cheryl Hadland and NDNA. Also in attendance were many representatives from our sector all eager to have MPs hear their voice. The Minister, Robert Goodwill MP, li…
We attended this meeting yesterday, thank you to all our guests - it was lovely to meet you! It was a lively meeting and the passion of the early years sector was evident. Joanne McCartney AM, Deputy Mayor for Education and Childcare exp…
This week saw The Foundation Stage Forum celebrate 16 years of providing a professional place for questions, discussions, research queries and pedagogical musings! In that time we have shared joy, despair, laughter and tears . We have supp…