Can someone please explain this to me?

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Basically preschool jargon! DD's nursery - attached to the junior school that she will attend - uses what I assume are ages in months next to a learning achievement ie "NLC 30-50" etc; Do the months then equate to a score on the EYFS profile? Just curious really.

Anyone?

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I'm not an expert on this but I believe NLC in this context stands for "Numbers for Labels and for Counting". The numbers are, as you assume, ages in months. NLC 30-50 is the level of mathematical development for the EYFS development band 30-50 months. I don't think this equates directly to a score on the EYFS profile.

the profile is for use at the end of reception. dd's nursery used age banded targets to assess. it sounds like yourr nursery is doing the same. they seem to be quite wide age ranges that they use. children change so much and 3 months makes a lot of difference when a child is only 3. and if a child is achieving stuff in the 30-50 month age range at 30 months, it is a lot different to achieving it at 50 months.

Thanks for the replies.

So do these monthly age ranges not equate to the EYFS then? If for instance a child was reported to be holding a book correctly, turning the pages and stating that it was a story book, would that tick a box on the EYFS scale aswell as the monthly age thing?

I suppose a better way of putting it would be to ask if they overlap!

The age ranges for the EYFS development bands overlap with each other. They are 16-26 months, 22-36 months, 30-50 months and 40-60 months. However, there is no significant overlap with the age for the EYFS profile - this is completed at the end of the academic year in which the child reaches the age of 5, so even a summer born child will be at least 58 months old when the profile is taken.

NLC is purely about number skills. For NLC 30-50 the behaviours you would expect to see are:

• use some number names and number language spontaneously
• show curiosity about numbers by offering comments or asking questions
• use some number names accurately in play
• sometimes match number and quantity correctly
• recognise groups with one, two or three objects

For comparison, in the EYFS profile under NLC scale point 1 means the child says some number names in familiar contexts such as nursery rhymes, scale point 2 means they count reliably up to three everyday objects and scale point 3 means they count reliably up to six everyday objects. By scale point 9 the child is recognising, counting, ordering, writing and using numbers up to 20.

So there is some overlap but no direct mapping.

Thanks for taking the time to post that info prh47bridge

If you looked at EYFS guidance document in the Development Matters section there are parts in bold which are aspects of the ELGs
www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/eyfs_practiceguid_0026608.pdf