Pre-school report, does this tally with EYFS points?

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Received DD's end of pre-school "Report" on Wednesday and expected to have EYFS points for each learning area, but instead it had "working within x months" for each area. Do these months tally to the EYFS at all? Are they a nationally recognised way of reporting progress at the end of nurser/pre-school? Wouls I look like a numpty for asking how they equate?

I work in a pre-school and all our assessments are based around the child's development profile. We are now required to provide information to parents which includes where abouts on the development profile the child is for Personal, social and emotional development, Communication language and literacy and physical development.

It is set out in age bands 16-26 months, 22-36, 30-50, 40-60.
We do not use the points system at all, I think that is used in schools for the end of the EYFS.

Hope that helps

That is how it should be. 'points' are just for reception. 30-50 months would be age related expectations for pre school and 40-60 months would be doing very well :)

Agree with posters above (am a childminder)

OK, thanks for the replies. So is the 40-60 months band the 'highest' a pre-school child could get? What if a child was reading Tolstoy? (She isn't, BTW )?

And I have read that the average child enters reception on point 3 of the EYFS? So would this be the 30-50 months band? It must correlate a bit, surely?

Yes 40-60 months is the highest for pre school. They are quite ambiguous though, I think ds is a range of 30-50 months and 40-60 months but nursery have had him down as 40-60 months for everything since he was 2 1/2 :s so he'll just stay on that til he goes to school I guess. It's the same as if they reach point 9 of eyfs they at not supposed to be assessed as level 1c. Yes point 3 is average for entry to reception, and the targets are similar so you could work out where she is if you feel like it, but at the end of the day it's not a massive deal :)

60 months is the end of the EYFS (5th birthday) as the EYFS is for children birth to 5. So

And wow at a 30 month old working in the 40-60 month range! I have a couple of very able 35-38 month olds in my key group who are starting to cover parts of the 40-60 month profile, but most are comfortably in the 22-36 range at 30 months, with some in the 30-50 range.

Rubirosa So the EYFS effectively stops at a childs' 5th birthday then, not at the end of reception? My DD is an April birthday, so will therefore hit age 5 3 months before the end of the academic year. What about the children who are sept/Oct birthdays? Does their EYFS effectively stop pretty much soon after they start reception? What would they be graded against for the rest of their time in reception

I think the actual banding is 40-60+, so 5th birthday up until the end of the September.

The EYFS stops at the end of the reception year.
The bands are
birth-11 months
8-20 months
16-26 months
22-36 months
30-50 months
40-60+ months
Early Learning Goals

children are expected to have met all the Early Learning Goals by the end of their reception year

Up until September, not the end of September sorry.