Managed Service on behalf of
The Early Years Foundation Stage
Profile
Each child’s development should be recorded
against 13 assessment scales, spread across the six areas of
Learning and Development and derived from the Early Learning
Goals. A full description of each scale and point, with
written exemplification can be found in Chapter 7 of the EYFS
Profile Handbook. These should always be referred to when assessing
children’s learning and development.
A score is calculated for each of the 13
individual scales in the following way:
The vast majority of children will achieve
scale points 1-3 in order and then go on to achieve scale points 4
– 8 in any order. Scale Point 9 can only be achieved once
scale points 1-8 have been attained. The diagram below,
demonstrates how a typical child can achieve against the EYFS
Profile scale points.
