Community schools include; * Primary Schools cater for children aged between 4 and 11 years old. The children start with the Early Years (Foundation) curriculum and progress to Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. * Secondary Schools cater for children between 11 and 16 years old. The children follow the National Curriculum Key Stages 3 and 4. * Specialist Schools are secondary schools who have been given a specialist status.
Secondary School also known as High School is for children aged 11-18. The “core Curriculum” is the compulsory Curriculum and includes Maths, English, Science and a foreign language. A GCSE must be taken in all of these subjects. First, Middle and Upper schools were introduced as part of the three tier model. Usually first schools taught from ages 5-8, middle schools from ages 8-12 and upper schools for 12-16.
Government funds ensures that every child receives up to 2 years of free education, before reaching school age. This early year provision in school supports very young children and is based on the concept of learning through play rather than formal education, as play has shown to be an important part for children’s early learning. Under the National Curriculum there are 4 Key Stages to education, starting with Foundation.The curriculum for Solihull(EYFS) 2012 includes ‘Understand the world Development’,`Personal,Social and Emotional Development’, ‘Physical Development’, ‘Maths, Literacy, ‘Communication and Language ‘and ‘Expressive Arts and Designs.’ The next Key Stage is Key Stage 1, which includes years 1 and 2(Age 5 and 6 Years), then children would move up to Key Stage 2(Years 3, 4, 5, and 6) for children aged 7 to 11. Children or young people would then move on to secondary education, Key Stage 3 which includes children from the age of 11 to 14 years old. Key Stage 4 includes children from the age of 14 to 16 years old.
UNIT 302. Schools as organisations. Outcome 1:- Know the structure of education for early years to post-compulsory education. 1.1:- Summarise entitlement and provision for early years education. As part of Every Child Matters and the Childcare Act 2006 every child in the UK aged three and four years old have been entitles to 15 hours a week for 38 weeks of the year, free early years education.
1. Know the structure of education form early years to post-compulsory education A) Summaries entitlement and provision for early years education. The Child Care Act 2006 states that all children aged 3 and 4 in England can receive a free part time early year’s education of up to 15 hours per week for 38 weeks a year. The government funds local authorities to ensure that each child receives up to two years of free education before they reach school age. Parents can put their children in full time early years education but they will be charged for this.
For example primary schools are part of the statutory sector because they are run by the government. Statutory sector primary schools have children aged from 5 to 11. They follow the national curriculum to teach the children, they teach the children lessons like English, maths, science. A normal school day starts at 8.30 and ends at 3.15. During that day the children would have a break time and a lunch time where they can then eat their packed lunch or the dinner’s
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) covers the children until they reach Key Stage 1, the children are taught through play rather than in a formal educational setting. The EYFS covers all forms of childcare including school based nursery, nursery schools, children’s centres, day nurseries, playgroups and pre-school and child-minders. The Foundation Curriculum is for children aged 3 to 5 and is used in Reception classes and school nurseries, there are seven areas of learning and development that must be included into educational programmes for these setting: * Literacy * Mathematics * Understanding the world * Expressive arts and design * Communication and language * Physical development * Personal, social and emotional development EYFS aims to meet the five outcomes that matters the most to the children from the Every Child Matters paper these are as follows: * Being healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and living a healthy lifestyle. * Staying safe: being protected from harm and neglect. * Enjoying and achieving: getting the most out of life and developing the skills for adulthood.
Collages- this is key stage 5 which is aged 16-18. Special schools- This can range from foundation stage right through to key stage 5 which is until they turn 18. b) School Governance Voluntary aided- These are state funded schools, they are run by a trust which is usually a religious group. Academies- These are government funded schools, they are run by the state. Community schools- these are state funded school in which the local education authority, and it owns the school's estate. Foundation/trust schools- these are stet funded schools the land of the school is usually owned by a trust or the governing bodies.
This applies to children ranged from 3 to 7 years old, who receive local authority funding in schools, preschools, nurseries and childminders. There are seven areas of learning, these are; 1. Physical Development 2. Language, Literacy and Communication skills 3. Mathematical Development 4.
(1:p1) An example of a statutory setting in my area is ***** which provides education for 4-7 year olds. Children start Infants school between the ages of 4-5 and will be in Reception class. Reception year is the last year in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). A voluntary sector is not compulsory and is not funded by the government, but by charities or organisations and in a lot of cases, parents have to pay for their child to attend. They can provide childcare and give the child the opportunity to learn something new.