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Colour recognition in the EYFS

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K1TTY1986 · 23/03/2020 15:54

Hello everyone, my name is Kitty-Alice and I am a level 4 Advanced Practitioner Certificate student, writing my final research project and wondered if I could gather your views on my project. I am researching early colour recognition in the EYFS, and whether this should be included into the younger age bands, in order to aid the sooner detection of colour vision defectiveness in children. What I would love to know, is do you think colour recognition should be implemented at a younger age then the current bands it falls into (predominantly 30-50/40-60+ months)? I am a Senior Nursery Practitioner in a local nursery in Chelmsford, and work with children from 1.5 to 2.5 years old, and have implemented colour recognition in this age group via our circle time colour of the week, with activities to support this development, so can see that this age group can recognise colours, but what are your views? All responses will be completely confidential and names will not be used. A copy of the finished data project will be made available to anyone who is interested in the results.

Thank you for your help!

Kitty-Alice French

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PlainBritishFlour · 23/03/2020 16:50

Yes. My daughter is soon to be 4. And can't identify colours.
I have tried since she was one.
Nothing serious. I'm not a pushy parent I just mean I started casually doing it during play.
She has been in full time school since September and to be honest they seem a bit wet.
I've tried to raise this issue with them but they don't see an issue.

K1TTY1986 · 23/03/2020 17:23

PlainBritishFlour,
Thank you for your views; its a really interesting perspective you have. I think trying to teach your daughter colours, in a casual manner is not the sign of being a pushy parent, more the fact that you care about the development of your daughter. The thing I see in Development Matters, is that they understand children can recognise colours, but just automatically expect them to be able to do so from 30+ months, but how can this be the case, if there is no implication for this development to take place at an earlier age?

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