Excellence in education is increasingly understood to begin long before secondary school, in the earliest learning environments a child ever encounters. As school groups bring growing rigour and ambition to their youngest year groups, the case for Early Years as the true foundation of every later outcome is becoming impossible to ignore. 

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This session makes the case for Early Years as the foundation of every later outcome, exploring what world-class early years provision looks like in practice. It considers why excellence doesn't begin in secondary school, but the moment a child first encounters a learning environment that believes in them, examines the rigour and ambition school groups are bringing to their earliest years, and closes with a call to build the foundation brilliantly so everything that follows becomes possible. 

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Key discussion points include: 

• Making the case for Early Years as the foundation of every later outcome 

• What world-class early years provision looks like in practice 

• Why excellence doesn't begin in secondary school, but the moment a child first encounters a learning environment that believes in them 

• The rigour and ambition school groups are bringing to their earliest years 

• A call to build the foundation brilliantly so everything that follows becomes possible