During their time in Early Years, we want children to be inspired and challenged within their learning in order to reach their full potential. We want our children to develop a real love for learning and desire to explore the world around them. Our environments provide children with the resources and opportunities to practise and re-visit the skills that they have already learnt as well as develop and explore new ideas.

 The Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum is based upon three Prime areas of Learning –

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Communication and Language
• Physical Development

And four Specific areas of Learning –

• Literacy
• Mathematical Development
• Knowledge and Understanding of the World
• Expressive Art and Design

Within Personal, Social and Emotional development we aim for all children to be able to:

• Play with others and share their ideas.
• Share and develop their knowledge.
• Feel valued as part of a team.
• Be confident in new situations.
• Recognise their own strengths and what makes them unique.

  

  Within Communication and Language, we aim for all children to be able to:
• Listen and join in to conversations with others.
• Understand and use a wide range of interesting vocabulary.
• Ask questions.
• Use language to re-tell and share key experiences.

 

Within Physical Development, we aim for all children to be able to:

• Be independent in their own self-care.
• Travel and move around a space safely and in different ways.
• Use smaller equipment and tools with precision and care.

Within Literacy, we aim for all children to be able to:

• Enjoy and share stories individually and as part of a group.
• Be able to talk about the stories that they have heard and read.
• Recognise the different sounds that letters make and know how they go together to make words.
• Talk about the different pictures and symbols that they have drawn.
• Write simple words and sentences.

Within Mathematical Development, we aim for all children to be able to:

• Use and understand number language.
• Recognise numbers and their uses in the world around us.
• Count and compare different groups of objects.
• Understand and use mathematical vocabulary to describe shape, time and measurements

Within Knowledge and Understanding of the World, we aim for all children to be able to:

• Recognise the purpose of technology in the world around us.
• Respect and celebrate the different views, beliefs and opinions of others.
• Know about our local area and understand our role in looking after the wildlife and environment.

Within Expressive Art and Design, we aim for children to be able to:

• Be creative and represent their ideas in different ways.
• Use different tools and techniques to create different effects.
• Create and share their own stories and games.
• Work as part of a team in order to develop ideas.