Welcome to the Lincolnshire
Birth to Five Service Website

From this site you can access guidance and advice on developing high quality early years practice, as well as find out about a range of training opportunities. Our aim is to support the development of settings in order to promote excellent learning experiences for all young children in Lincolnshire, which has a long history of providing quality childcare and education. As a Service, we believe that the early years of a child’s life are vital. Children learn at such speed; devouring learning, delighting in anything new and relishing challenge and experimentation endlessly. Let us help them to learn.

The website has one clear purpose – to support teaching and learning in Lincolnshire Settings by presenting all practitioners throughout the county with information and resources to aid effective planning, observation, assessment and recording in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Over time, we hope to expand the range of information available, so, if you are a Foundation Stage Practitioner, please bookmark this page and visit this site again soon. This is your site, built to support Practitioners therefore if you have any ideas, are involved in projects, or have anything you would like to share with the Birth to Five Service, please click here to

let us know. It is important you give your name and setting details in any communication.

The Birth to Five Service would like to thank all the Lincolnshire Early Years Practitioners, Managers, Consultants, Trainers and Head teachers who have contributed towards the contents of this site.

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May 12 - Birth to Three Matters Resources
The Foundation Years Team has converted the booklet, poster and the cards from the Birth to Three Matters document into PDFS for practitioners to download. The packs which contain useful information which is relevent to the reformed EYFS have only been available in hard copy or as multiple downloads from the DFE until now.

May 12 - NEW EYFS FRAMEWORK
The revised, simpler framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) was published on 27 March 2012, for implementation from September 2012.
The framework and related supplementary materials are available to download from the Foundation Years website.

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May 2012 - Free Childcare Business Training Workshops
In response to the economic climate Lincolnshire County Council’s Childcare Sufficiency Team have secured the services of Phoenix 21 Ltd to deliver a range of business training workshops aimed at improving the business skills of setting based providers. The workshops will cover: Employment including staff recruitment & retention;
Marketing;
Financial Planning including debt management
please book directly with Phoenix 21 Ltd see flyer for contact details.

May 2012 - Free E-Learning Courses
Lincolnshire Early Years Practitioners who are signed onto the Online Booking System can access FREE e-learning courses for a limited time.

May 2012 - Schools Admissions Procedure
Click here to access information on how to apply for school and an online tutorial of the new live application process for Sept 2012 school starters. Children Centres and Preschools are providing on-line access in order to support parent/carers in the application process.

May 2012 - Assessment and Reporting Arrangements EYFSP
This document is vital information for all Headteachers, Assessment Leaders and EYFS Practitioners.
It explains procedures for assessment and moderation of against the EYFS Profile and is also available from the DfE website.

May 2012 - Birth to Five Service EYFSP Moderation Handbook 2011-2012 Outlines the procedures for moderation of the EYFSP in Lincolnshire schools. Included are dates and venues for cluster moderation along with the scale points to be moderated. Schools to be individually moderated are also listed.

May 2012 - Celebrating Communication Toolkit
A new document that gives practitioners lots of ideas to celebrate language milestones- big and small- with their children.

May 2012 - Families in the Foundation Years Website
Click here to access an Early Years website which supports both Parents/Carers and Professionals in caring for babies and young children.

May 2012 - Calendar for Census and Interim Returns
Please click here to download this calendar which links to funding payments in PVIs

May 2012 - Birth to Five Service Forums
Please click here to access a user guide for accessing the Forums. We hope that you find these informative and useful.