In 2023-24, our Early Years children performed superbly to maintain a 3 year trend of high attainment despite great turbulence during COVID years and limited access to toddler groups and the like in their early development. Our Early Years team is strong and we place high outcomes for children at the top of our agenda whether they are 2 years old or 5 years old.  The data is not simply a reflection of their Reception year but the hard work and support from the moment they join us in pre-school as well as strong family links.

EARLY YEARS

Early Years children are said to have reached a ‘Good Level of Development’ (GLD) if they meet the Early Learning Goal (ELG) in the prime areas of ;

• Personal, Social and Emotional development
• Physical development
• Communication and Language development
• plus the ELGs in Literacy and Mathematics. (not prime areas but still vital!)

Our Early Years children in 2024 achieved a strong set of outcomes with 95% achieving a good level of development, significantly outperforming County and National statistics for the last 7 consecutive years in a row!  It was also the highest percentage of children achieving a Good Level of Development in any year of the last 9 and sees a very positive increase in the gap between us and the results nationally.

The table below shows our performance over the last three years with the % of children achieving a Good Level of Development: