EYFS

Early Years Foundation Stage

Curriculum planning:

A warm welcome to our Early Years Foundation Stage at Eastfield Primary School. We plan an exciting and challenging curriculum based on our observations of children’s needs, interests, and stages of development across the seven areas of learning to enable the children to achieve and exceed the early learning goals.

All the seven areas of learning and development are as equally important and interconnected. The three prime areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.

These three areas are:

Communication and Language
Physical Development; and Personal
Social and Emotional Development

Children are also supported through the four specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied.

The specific areas are:

Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts and Design

Children in EYFS are provided with a range of rich, meaningful first-hand experiences where children can explore, think creatively and are active. We aim to develop and foster positive attitudes towards learning, confidence, communication and physical development.

As a team, we create a curriculum plan which contains the overarching topics and educational trips, detailing the skills and knowledge your children will learn throughout each term. We respond to the interests of the children daily, and their interests inform our medium and short-term planning. The curriculum plan is based on the EYFS Statutory Framework. Our practice and pedagogy is supported by current research and the non-statutory guidance documents ‘Development Matters’ and ‘Birth to Five’. We use ‘Little Wandle Letters and Sounds’ as our chosen phonics and early reading validated scheme.

Outdoor Learning:

At Eastfield Primary school we believe that young children thrive when learning outdoors. Children demonstrate heightened wellbeing and involvement when they are given the freedom to engage with the natural environment. We as EYFS practitioners, provide a sustainable, quality outdoor environment that sparks children’s’ imagination and creativity that enables them to be independent, risk taking, hands-on learners.

Children have access to space where they can be as active and energetic as they please, where they develop their social skills and build relationships through quality interactions with both adults and peers. Children have endless opportunities for discovery, play and talk, in a safe environment which enables them to share and test out their ideas. They can be as noisy and messy as they want to be using their senses to explore the natural world around them, using our open ended enhancements which provide children with an array of endless opportunities to develop life-long skills.

EYFS

EYFS

Early Years Foundation Stage

Curriculum planning:

These three areas are:

The specific areas are:

Outdoor Learning:

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