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 right foundation for good future progress through school and life. The EYFS is about what children learn, as well as how they learn. Effective practice is a mix of different approaches. Children learn through play, by adults modelling, by observing each other and through adult-guided learning. 

Within the learning framework there are three prime areas of learning for your child: 

There are four specific areas of learning: 

The Characteristics of Effective Learning describe behaviours children use in order to learn. The three characteristics of effective teaching and learning are:

• Playing and exploring - children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’.
• Active learning - children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements.
• Creating and thinking critically - children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things. 

To learn well, children must approach opportunities with curiosity, energy and enthusiasm. Effective learning must be meaningful to a child, so that they are able to use what they have learned and apply it in new situations. These abilities and attitudes of strong learners will support them to learn well and make good progress in all the Areas of Learning and Development.

Curriculum Overview:

Please familiarise yourselves with your child's termly curriculum overview. This will help you support their learning, facilitate home learning, and inform activities and visits you may wish to undertake to supplement learning carried out in school. The overview is designed to let you know what specific elements of subject areas are being taught in each specific term. If you have any queries about them please do not hesitate to ask teaching staff.