Early Years Foundation Stage
Our aim is to provide children with a range of activities within the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework that will stimulate and motivate learning.
The Early Learning Goals are the six main areas of young children's development and learning. They set out what most children are expected to achieve by the end of the Reception year.
These goals are not a curriculum with lots of different subjects, they are six broad areas of learning:
- Personal, social and emotional development: Children will develop confidence and independence while learning to concentrate and to enjoy sharing as part of a group.
- Communication, language and literacy: Learn about communicating with one another and develop skills in talking, listening, writing and reading.
- Mathematical development: Use ideas about number, quantity, measurement, shape and space.
- Knowledge and understanding of the world: Investigate and begin to understand the things, places and people around them.
- Physical development: Improve control and coordination of their bodies while learning to move and to handle equipment.
- Creative development: Find ways to communicate by using colour, shape, sound, texture, movement and stories.
To find out more on the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework please visit www.direct.gov.uk/eyfs
or www.teachernet.gov.uk/publications Search using the ref: 00640-2008LEF-EN