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  2. EYFS Curriculum & Parent's Information

EYFS Curriculum

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is how the Government and early years professionals describe the time in your child’s life between birth and age 5.

This is a very important stage as it helps your child get ready for school as well as preparing them for their future learning and successes. From when your child is born up until the age of 5, their early years’ experience should be happy, active, exciting, fun and secure; and support their development, care and learning needs.

 

Nurseries, pre-schools, reception classes and childminders registered to deliver the EYFS must follow a legal document called the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework.

 

The EYFS sets the standards that schools must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good progress through school and life.

 

The children are given opportunities to play and explore, to investigate and experience things and to ‘have a go’. They are active and develop their own ideas. They are all unique and will have different interests and abilities. The areas of development have been divided into 2 groups:

3 Prime areas: 

  • Communication and language
  • Physical development       
  • Personal, social and emotional development    

 

These prime areas are those most essential for your child’s healthy development and future learning.

As children grow, the prime areas will help them to develop skills in 4 specific areas:

  • Literacy
  • Mathematics       
  • Understanding the world     
  • Expressive arts and design     

 

These 7 areas are used to plan your child’s learning and activities according to their unique needs. This is a little bit like a curriculum in primary and secondary schools, but it's suitable for very young children, and it's designed to be really flexible so that staff can follow your child' needs and interests.

At the end of Reception the children will assessed against the 17 Early Learning Goals and their progress shared with parents.

 

Please click the following link for a Parents Guide to Early Years Foundation Stage

 

PARENTS INFORMATION

Welcome to our Parent’s information pages. Here you will find links to our current learning and initiatives, upcoming events and some recipes and songs to try at home with your child.

You can download our Early Years policy here or view it below

Please click here to access our Early Years Policy.