“Every child deserves the best possible start in life and support to fulfil their potential…experiences between birth and five has 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 learning together provide the foundation children need to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up”
Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage”, Department for Children, Schools and Families, (2017)
Our Curriculum Intent
Our EYFS curriculum is language led and inclusive driven. Every area of learning is designed to reduce disadvantage and meet the needs of all children. We aim for ambitious outcomes, enabling all children to access a rich, engaging and sequential curriculum.
Our Curriculum Implementation
Universal Provision: We provide a language rich environment through daily stories, talk activities, role play. Adults model and scaffold language, extending children’s vocabulary and understanding. High quality interactions during focused tasks and continuous provision supports development in prime and specific areas.
Targeted provision: To support children’s development, we provide small group interventions such as WellComm and bucket therapy. We teach phonics in small groups. Visuals, Makaton and sensory aids further support children to access our rich curriculum.
Specialist Provision: We tailor individual support plans for children with high needs, collaborating with specialist where requires. Strategies are tailored to ensure participation and progress.
Family and community: Parent workshops, Stay and Learn sessions and home learning support provides opportunities for parents/carers to learn alongside their children and support learning at home. Cultural and linguistic diversity is integrated throughout.
Our Curriculum Impact
Measuring success: We measure progress from initial baseline assessment in all areas. We use a combination of observation and formal assessment (e.g. RWI phonics and WellComm) to support judgements. We understand the importance of supporting all aspects of child development, recording progress in social and emotional growth, participation and engagement alongside cognitive progress.
Please click on the links below for further details of our EYFS curriculum.
SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD
Please attend all our parent/carer session or speak to staff members for advice helping your child. Below are some websites you might find useful.
EYFS Curriculum – EYFS Development Matters
A guide to your child’s learning and development in the EYFS – What to Expect When?
Videos and resources to support Phonics – RWI Phonics Guidance
Fun, educational games for children to play – Cbeebies
Free eBooks for children to read online – Oxford Owl
Simple, fun maths activities – Maths Activities
Here are some of the lovely creations made by some of our reception children. They were asked to create a home for a character from a Traditional Tale – well done boys and girls your work is amazing and we are so proud of how hard you worked over the Easter break.
Today in Reception, we carried out an experiment to see which bowl of porridge would stay warm the longest. The children made their predictions about which one would stay warm longest.
Today in PE we played a game called spiders and butterflies. Next we had to be dung beatles and move a ball around the cones using our hands.
Our story in Reception this week is Goldilocks and The Three Bears. The children have enjoyed using their art skills to make some fantastic paintings of the characters. They used their own sense of creativity by choosing what colours they wanted to use for Goldilocks dress.
The children had a fantastic time visiting Central Library just before half term. First they shared a lovely story before setting off on a tour of the library.
We are preparing to celebrate Eid by making decorations and talking about how each family celebrates together.
Today we had lots of fun celebrating world book day dressing up in our pyjamas and home clothes. We also enjoyed sharing stories together.
This afternoon we had lots of fun playing a memory game called we went to the shop. The children learnt new words such as cauliflower and cabbage and could recall the order the food was bought.
Huge thanks to all parents for coming along to session 2 of our maths workshop today. It was great to see so many of you having fun playing games and everybody winning bingo! Thank you to Paula from Purple Circle for giving us lots of additional activities to share. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week.
We had lots of fun watching our lava experiment we learnt some new words such as lava, erupting and volcano.
Today we had lots of fun playing outside in the snow and ice.
Today we had a surprise visit from Father Christmas and enjoyed receiving a gift.
We had a great time posting our wish letters home. Thank you so much to all parents who joined us on the walk yesterday.
It’s great to use our imaginations outside to create chalk drawings.
In Reception, we have busy creating our own biscuit dough, making salt dough decorations, Santa socks and reindeer food.
Today the children had lots of fun making fruit kebabs out of various fruits.
We enjoyed creating stepping stones for the rain today and watching what happens when we drew in the puddles.
