From Early years to the NC

[Rayn22]

I have always taught in Early years for most of my teaching career. 11 years. However, I find it physically knackering and just feel like I need some experience up the school and the NC. My SLT are supportive of this but it scares me to death. I know my subject knowledge for Key stage 2 will need refreshing (a lot). I am not sure if I am been too hasty.anyone gone from EYFS up the school and how was it?

Apologies for typos! My phone is a pain to type on.

Personally I'd go to year one and then move up a year group each year. I think we need more eyfs people in ks1 as we can bring so much knowledge of free flow learning etc. Not all year one children are ready for the NC in September. I think year one is now the hardest year group to get right.

I did think about that! Luckily my head is really passionate about early years and happy for the transition to year 1 to be gradual rather than year 1 ready! Just not worked from the NC for a long time.

I've been in EYs my entire career (10 years), did an EYs degree with only one KS1 placement which was a mixed Rec/Y1 class and I've been told I'll likely be in Y2 next year.

I'm gutted as I feel like I've really honed my reception teaching this year and love the relative freedom the curriculum gives you but at the same time this year has been the toughest cohort ever! It's helping me to remember this and hopefully some positives of KS1: having children who are a bit more "trained", no continuous provision to set up then replace as it gets broken or trashed, no individual readers to squeeze in, and hopefully no toilet accidents to clean up!

Agree!

I went from Reception to Year 6 once. Not my choice (change of circumstance, house move, did supply for a day and the rest was history...) I wouldn't have chosen it but there's definitely elements of being a good EYFS teacher that can be something missing from other parts of the school.

I'm firmly sticking to KS1 now though!!