Early Years Foundation Stage
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“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)
At Smithdown, we ensure the best possible start for children by:
Inspiring children through an imaginative and immersive curriculum, ensuring that the children are happy and enthusiastic to learn, that we foster and nurture the children’s imagination and curiosity
Providing a happy, safe, stimulating and challenging programme of learning and development for the children to experience as they begin their journey through school.
Providing a broad, balanced, relevant and creative curriculum that will set in place firm foundations for further learning and development in Key Stage 1 and beyond and enable choice and decision making, fostering independence and self-confidence.
Using and valuing what each child can do, assessing their individual needs and helping each child to progress.
Developing excellent relationships with parents and carers to build a strong partnership in supporting their children.
Providing a caring and inclusive learning environment which is sensitive to the requirements of the individual child including those who have additional needs.
Please click on the links below for further details of our EYFS curriculum.
Nursery Yearly Overview Reception Yearly Overview
Nursery Autumn 1 Curriculum Reception Autumn 1 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
We enjoyed our zoom with Reception yesterday morning 🌈 Thanks to all parents for their support 🌈 #smithdowneyfs @SmithdownPr
We enjoyed making our own pizzas like everybody at home🍕 @SmithdownPr #smithdowneyfs
Wow Nursery! You have been working hard at home with your home learning packs and our remote learning using @Seesaw We are so proud of you all and look forward to seeing more next week. 😊😊. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownhomelearning #smithdownextra
We made our own chocolate play dough today ⭐️@SmithdownPr #smithdowneyfs
We loved our first Reception zoom❤️ Many thanks to all parents for joining on- we really appreciated it and it was fantastic to see all of the children ❤️ Thank you from all of us in Reception 🌈 @SmithdownPr #smithdowneyfs
Nursery packs ready for you to collect today from our Nursery door. Remember to social distance and wear your face coverings. Mon - Wed class, collection time 10 - 11 am. Wed - Fri class collection time 1 - 2 pm. #smithdowneyfs
Remember, there are lots of ways to learn. Try some of these no screen activities at home. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownhomelearning @SmithdownPrimR @SmithdownPrimN
Today we followed Miss McFarlane’s Seesaw video and made our own snowflakes #smithdowneyfs #smithdownart
We have used Lego bricks to look at what number is one less than 7 and one more than 7 #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmaths
This afternoon, like our friends at home, we talked about what we need to wear outside for winter. We dressed Billy the Bear in a coat, hat, gloves and scarf to keep him warm. #smithdowneyfs
