Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP) – best practice

From spring 2026, Foundation Years will provide new written resources, videos and peer-to-peer sessions for schools, facilitated by local authorities. This is to help reception teachers carry out the EYFSP assessment with confidence and consistency.

Best practice sharing

As part of this support, Foundation Years would like to share some examples of best practice at a headteacher / Senior Leadership Team and teacher level. Below are examples of what each role might like to share:

• Headteachers: how you support the reception teacher to carry out the assessment effectively, such as the steps taken to make sure senior leaders have a good understanding of the EYFSP assessment, any internal moderation and / or quality assurance of the data and how you help teachers to use the data to support transitions.
• Teachers: the process you follow to make EYFSP judgements, including how you have collaborated with internal colleagues and / or other schools and how you use the EYFSP data to support transitions. You may also like to share examples of children you have assessed (e.g. how you assessed a child with SEND, made a judgement against a particular ELG or applied the best-fit model).

If you would like your best practice to be considered for this piece of work, please complete the template attached and email this to Exemptions: EYFS@education.gov.uk by Monday 13 October.