Early Years Curriculum
Every child deserves the best possible start in life and the support that enables them to fulfil their potential. Children develop quickly in the early years and a child’s experiences between birth and age five have a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right. Good parenting and high quality early learning together provide the foundation children need to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.
The early years foundation stage (EYFS) sets standards for the learning, development and care of your child from birth to 5 years old. Reception classes follow the early years curriculum.
Within the early years curriculum, there are seven areas of learning. Your child will mostly be taught through games and play.
The areas of learning are:
- communication and language
- physical development
- personal, social and emotional development
- literacy
- mathematics
- understanding the world
- expressive arts and design
- Extend Communication Language and Literacy Development
- Extend Expressive Arts and Design
- Extend Mathematical Development
- Extend Personal Social and Emotional Development PSED
- Extend Physical Fine Motor Skills
- Extend Physical Gross Motor Skill
- Extend Understanding the World Book Visits and Visitors
- Extend Understanding the World
