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EYFS weekly homework sheets

Subject: Whole school

Age range: 3-5

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

Last updated

29 March 2020

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Used this template in EYFS for setting home learning activities - Phonics consolidation tasks, must and could tasks, as well as pre-learning for the following week.

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Early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework

The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5.

Applies to England

Eyfs statutory framework for childminders.

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EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers

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Summary of changes for childminders

Summary of changes for group and school-based providers.

There are 2 statutory EYFS frameworks: 

• EYFS statutory framework for childminders 
• EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers 

Providers are responsible for ensuring they follow the current version of the framework for their provider type.

The EYFS framework: 

• sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well 
• ensures children are kept healthy and safe 
• ensures children have the knowledge and skills they need to start school 

It also includes early years qualification requirements and standards .

See the summary of changes to understand what has been updated in the latest versions of the frameworks.

Help for early years providers and childminders  working with 0- to 5-year-olds is available.  

Further supporting materials for settings and practitioners are available on the  Foundation Years  website.

Updates to this page

Clarified wording in paragraphs 3.11, 3.61, 3.64 and 3.67 in the framework for childminders and paragraphs 3.40, 3.41, 3.62 in the framework for groups and schools. Some paragraph numbers have been updated to reflect these changes and other minor formatting amendments and link corrections have been made.

Updated the 2 statutory framework documents to clarify providers’ responsibilities on paediatric first aid training. In the framework for childminders we have also edited paragraph 3.24, in the section on training, support and skills.

Removed 'Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (applies until 3 January 2024)' and amended the text to reflect this.

Added summaries of changes from the September 2023 guidance to the January 2024 guidance.

Added the 'EYFS statutory framework for childminders' and the 'EYFS statutory framework for group and school-based providers'. You should use these documents from 4 January 2024.

Updated to highlight that the new statutory framework for the early years foundation stage applies from 4 September 2023. Removed the previous version.

Added new version of 'Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage' which applies from 4 September 2023. The following 3 changes will apply: the current statutory minimum staff:child ratios in England for 2-year-olds changes from 1:4 to 1:5; childminders can care for more than the specified maximum of three young children if they are caring for siblings of children they already care for, or if the childminder is caring for their own child; clarifying that 'adequate supervision' while children are eating means that children must be within sight and hearing of an adult.

Updated to make it clear that the new statutory framework for the early years foundation stage applies from 1 September 2021. Removed the previous version and the early years foundation stage coronavirus disapplications as they are no longer in force.

Updated 'Early years foundation stage: coronavirus disapplications' with link to the current version of Ofsted’s early years inspection handbook, and clarification of dates disapplications can be used.

Updated as inspections of early years providers resume on 4 May, the disapplications to the early years foundation stage profile are in force (and no longer subject to parliamentary approval), and paediatric first aid practitioners must attend requalification training to renew expired certificates.

Added a new statutory framework for the early years foundation stage which applies from 1 September 2021. Until then, the current framework applies.

Added guidance on the 2021 early years foundation stage profile (EYFSP) assessment and paediatric first aid (PFA) certificate requalification training.

Updated 'Early years foundation stage: coronavirus disapplications' with a link to Ofsted's operational notes, which set out in further detail, how providers will be inspected from January 2021. Provided further clarity on the definition of 'reasonable endeavours'.

Amended 'Early years foundation stage: coronavirus disapplications' to remove reference to the original transition period and the PFA certification extensions, both which ended on 25 November 2020.

Amended the content on early years foundation stage coronavirus disapplications to reflect the updated arrangements that were put in place from 26 September 2020, and national restrictions.

Updated 'early years foundation stage: coronavirus disapplications' to reflect that the original disapplications ended on 25 September and the new regulations which came into force on the 26 September.

Updated to reflect new regulations which allow temporary coronavirus (COVID-19) disapplications to re-apply if a provider is prevented from complying with the EYFS due to coronavirus (COVID-19) related restrictions or requirements. They also add disapplications around paediatric first aid to the transitional period, which originally only applied to disapplications around staffing levels.

Updated to reflect the extension of the validity of current PFA certificates.

Updated to reflect wider opening of early years settings from 1 June 2020 and to provide a clarification on progress checks for children aged 2.

Added guidance to the temporarily disapplied, and modified certain elements of the EYFS statutory framework.

Updated statutory guidance title and summary.

Added new statutory framework.

Added link to the Foundation Years website.

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Homework for EAL Learners

Explore our seven calls to action for the new Government to integrate children who use EAL.

Primary schools

Teachers and homework.

Homework is an important part of helping learners develop their English language skills, as well as supporting the development of their first language(s). Developing multi- or bilingualism has many cognitive advantages, for example, it can help children learn as it gives them the opportunity to think about ideas in both or several languages. In order to help learners develop both their English language skills and first language skills, teachers might want to set homework where learners are asked to do tasks such as:

• Talk to someone at home in their first language about the work they have done (e.g. on volcanoes) that day
• Ask their parents to translate five words from class in their first/home language
• Write three sentences from class in their first/home language

Parents and homework

It is important to keep parents informed about the school’s expectations regarding homework, particularly regarding the benefits of multilingualism (to find out more please read Strand and Hessel’s 2018 research). Parents and carers who are not literate in English may need reassuring that reading to their children in their first language is important and that it is very helpful to look at and talk about the pictures in school reading books with their children. It is important to liaise with the parents of EAL learners to explain:

• The importance of getting into a routine of reading at home
• The importance of talking about the pictures and the story
• That talking can be done in their first language or in English - both will help their child

Olga Cara (University College London) suggests a number of ways that parents can use home language(s) to support learning at home. Here are a few suggestions:

• Parents can tell their child/children stories in their home language as much as possible (these could be true stories from the parents’ lives, or made up stories)
• Parents can read aloud to their child/children in their home language for 15 minutes every day
• Parents can help their child/children with homework by using both English and their home language, e.g. by reading a homework text in English but talking about the text or giving instructions in their home language
• Parents can talk about a subject with their child/children entirely in their home language and then write about it in English in their workbook

More information on how parents can use home languages to support learning at home is available in the Foundation’s webinar with Olga Cara.

Classroom Guidance and Strategies to Support EAL Learners : Working with Learners in Primary Settings signposts other homework tasks to help develop first language skills and aid English language acquisition They are suitable for all EAL learners from Bands A to E. In order to download the Strategies, please complete this registration form which will provide free access to all of the Foundation’s resources.

For those at the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), the Guiding principles and strategies for practitioners working with learners who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Settings may also be a useful resource for ideas of how to work closely with parents to support language development at home (In order to download the Guiding Principles, please complete this registration form which will provide free access to all of the Foundation’s resources).

Secondary schools

With learners who are New to English and at the Early Acquisition stage it is important to be flexible about homework and not penalise learners for not completing homework if they have not understood the task or have not been able to do it. If a teacher tells the class how important it is that a particular piece of homework is completed, then they will need to reassure a learner who is New to English and give them an appropriate alternative task. Some examples of this might be:

• To look up a (short) list of key words or phrases and write them in their first language
• To do a piece of writing in their first language (e.g. an account of a piece of practical science)
• To research a topic online in their first language and make their own list of key words or phrases they will need to know in English
• To take home some notes or a piece of writing done in class in their first language, and draft a translation into English, either with the help of a family member who is competent at reading and writing in English, or by using a bilingual dictionary or translation software

A learner who is New to English may also need to be allowed extra time to write the homework task in their diary. The learner could write it in English, or in (one of) their first language(s). Alternatively teachers may want to write it for them, or ask a supportive peer who is competent at reading and writing in English (and who has legible handwriting) to write it for them.

Classroom Guidance and Strategies to Support EAL Learners : Working with Learners in Secondary Settings signposts other homework tasks to help develop first language skills and aid English language acquisition. The Strategies are suitable for all EAL learners from Bands A to E. In order to download the Strategies, please complete this registration form which will provide free access to all of the Foundation’s resources.

Further reading

• How to Provide Multilingual Support in the Classroom
• What is EAL in Education?
• EAL Learners with Limited First Language Literacy
• How to Create an EAL Learner Profile
• Effective Teaching of EAL Learners
• Additional Support in the Classroom