Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Model

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The Penguin English dictionary (2004: 868) defines ‘a mentor to be “a wise and trusted adviser. An experienced member of an organisation or an institution entrusted with training and advising younger or less experienced members, named after ‘MENTOR’ – a tutor of Odysseus’ son, Telemachus, in Homer’s odyssey.” Different organisations and institutions have over the years adopted and used various forms of mentoring to train not just their new staff but students, apprentices, and protégées. The Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework (EYFS) (DfES 2014:20) set a requirement for early years settings to provide supervision of its staff stating, “effective supervision provides support, coaching and training for the practitioner and promotes