Description
The Early Excellence Guide to Mixed-Aged Classes is an essential guide for any schools with mixed-age classes in the Early Years and KS1 or for schools who may be considering this ever-evolving approach to teaching.
The EEx Guide to Mixed-Aged Classes complements the Continuous Guides to Continuous Provision 3-5yrs and 5-7yrs and supports practitioners to develop practice and provision within mixed-age classes, ensuring it is a positive experience for all children.
The Mixed-Aged guide is designed to support practitioners that are both experienced working within mixed age groups and those that are new to mixed age classes. It ensures you spend time reflecting on your provision and practice, consider the benefits mixed-age classes offer, along with offering practical ideas, activities for team development and recommended actions for the team.
The guide also offers practical information to help practitioners plan the environment; how to consider which areas to prioritise and what opportunities each area offers. It also provides examples of Continuous Provision Plans provision to support practitioners with creating bespoke versions, designed to suit the needs of the school and children
The guides to Continuous Provision 3-5yrs and 5-7yrs contain practical advice, including the principles around provision, covering the what, why and how. They are excellent sources of guidance for practitioners new to early years, leaders to embed consistency across their team, and for those wanting to invest in using continuous provision within KS1 environments. They also contain useful planning guides for every area of provision and blank templates – these are practical guides that you will reference and come back to time and time again.
The EEx Guide to Mixed-Aged Classes, EEx Guide to Continuous Provision 3-5yrs and EEx Guide to Continuous Provision 5-7yrs can all be purchased separately and combined with the EEx Guide to Outdoor Provision to support a consistent approach to provision, both indoors and outdoors.
The EEx Guide to Mixed-Aged Classes features:
- Reflections on mixed-aged classes
- How to create and sustain a vision
- How to work with families
- Models of Teaching & Learning
- Developing areas of provision
- Audit Framework
- Continuous provision planning guide examples
The EEx Guide to Continuous Provision 3-5yrs & 5-7yrs features:
- Planning documents and resources
- A three-part illustrated overview of what, why and how
- A useful set of discussion points to support the review of current provision
- A full set of Continuous Provision Plans, one for each area
- Guidance on how to use the plans with your team
- Blank formats to help you create your own plans
Please note – This is currently available as pre-order only and will be dispatched from 2nd January 2026.
