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Accurate early years assessment matters. The EYFS Profile shapes how you understand each child, plan their next steps, and hand them on to Year 1. But making confident, consistent judgements is hard, and moderation can feel daunting. This training helps your team assess accurately and use the results to improve provision.
Below, we explain what our EYFS Profile and assessment training involves, and how it helps you make confident, accurate judgements.
What Is EYFS Profile & Early Years Assessment Training?
It’s practical training that helps early years staff assess children accurately and use assessment well. We cover the EYFS Profile, the early learning goals, ongoing formative assessment, moderation, and how to turn assessment into better provision.
We focus on building the confidence to make secure judgements and reduce unnecessary workload, so assessment informs teaching rather than becoming a paperwork burden.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings with early years provision: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts. It suits reception teachers, EYFS leaders, and assessment leads. Trusts often run it across schools for consistent, moderated judgements.
Many schools ask for it to build confidence in EYFS Profile judgements, prepare for moderation, or use early years data more effectively.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- The EYFS Profile and the early learning goals
- Making secure, evidence-based judgements
- Effective ongoing formative assessment
- Reducing assessment workload in the early years
- Moderation and consistency across the team
- Using assessment to plan next steps
- Understanding and using EYFS data
- Assessing children with SEND fairly
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Assess with confidence
Your team learns to make secure, accurate judgements. Assessment becomes something they trust, not fear.
2
Achieve consistency
We build shared understanding, so judgements are consistent across your team and stand up to moderation.
3
Cut assessment workload
We show staff how to assess meaningfully without drowning in evidence-gathering and paperwork.
4
Use data to improve provision
Your team learns to turn assessment into action, planning the next steps that help children progress.
5
Prepare for moderation
Staff feel ready and confident when moderation comes, with judgements they can justify.
6
Assess SEND fairly
We help staff assess children with additional needs accurately and fairly.
7
Support transition
Accurate assessment gives Year 1 a clear, honest picture of every child.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We use real examples and children’s work, so the training builds practical, confident judgement.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Assessment-focused
We build confidence in EYFS Profile judgements and everyday formative assessment.
Tailored to your setting
We shape the training around your team, your data, and your priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, an EYFS team session, or moderation support. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know how important accurate early assessment is, and how to make it confident rather than daunting. Our training helps you assess well, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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