Petition to: change the sixty-nine compulsory Early Years Foundation Stage Learning and Development Requirements (targets applied to children from birth to five in nurseries, schools and other early years settings) to recommendations and guidelines only.

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to change the sixty-nine compulsory Early Years Foundation Stage Learning and Development Requirements (targets applied to children from birth to five in nurseries, schools and other early years settings) to recommendations and guidelines only. More details

Submitted by Frances Laing of Mother of one child aged four years and three months, writer, blogger, journalist – Deadline to sign up by: 27 November 2010 – Signatures: 90

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I am the mother of one child aged four years and three months.

Our elected representatives tell us that opposition to the sixty-nine compulsory learning and development requirements is a minority concern. This is not the case. It is broad and spans many educational philosophies, teachers organisations, state-funded and private schools. These compulsory targets simply do not correspond to best early years educational practice. My husband and I requested a parental exemption from the sixty-nine EYFS learning and development requirements. We believe we were the first parents in the U.K. to do this. I have documented this process with a blog - a parent’s eye-view - not yet represented in the mainstream press. The compulsory EYFS sixty-nine learning and development requirements give parents a misleading and potentially damaging view of their children's development and learning (a view shared by expert professional opinion). We consider these goals to be developmentally inappropriate for many children at such a tender age, often generating unintended negative consequences for their later education and reinforcing rather than reducing a climate of failure.

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Frances Laing, the Petition Creator, joined by:

Dr Richard House
Liz Pilley
Caroline McCurrach
clair daniel
Kristina McKeown
Jacqui Futers
Samantha Jones
Louise Cunningham
Maria Maza
Isabel Kimberlin
John Dougherty
Sarah Clark
Kim Simpson
A Colnaghi
Liz Williams
Graham Kennish
Abigail Maxwell
Arthur Adams
Joanna Foot
Stephanie Krayer
Karen Fry
Alan Stewart
Alan Thomas
Kathryn O'Sullivan-Brown
Oliver Smith
Joan Meredith
jamie mccurrach
Barrie Simpson
Margaret King
Penny Wilkinson
Carol-Anne Peacock
Rebecca Wallman
Suzanne elliott
Liz Kennett
Rebekah Sachno
Dawn Dunlop
J M Applegate
Lesley Wright
Leah Wells
Elizabeth Walsh
Maria Zech
Saffery Coates
Jannette Kampinga
Elizabeth Gray
Sarah Allatt
Paulette A Luff
Emma Symes
Amanda Harrison
Nicola Sumpter
Michelle Cook
vikki nicholson
Holly Lyne
Jacqui Watson
Jill Harris
Xen Hasan
Said Hasan
yusuf Hasan
adam Hasan
Carol Stanbury
Louisa Herbs
Natalie Moseley
Philip Somers
Mandy Greatbatch
Nicola Hayden
M Shaw
Katherine Norman
K Hall
L Evans
Yulia Zarubinska
Richard Atkinson
Anastasia Prokudina
Viktoriya Porter
Irina Semenova
Lorna Hind
Geraldine Garrity
Anna Brace
Maria Gabriel
nicky blaber
Sheena Rowley
Stephen Bratt
Anne Kasica, the-shg.org
Ernest Vine
Lynn Medland
Augene Nanning
Annie Weekes
Jon Gore
Anne Madeleine Mildon
Penny Fenge
Mary Horbury

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