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Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage
4Children Parents Guide

EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE

Our Early Years Department follows the Early Years Foundation Stage, this is the curriculum that is set by the British government which all schools in England must follow.

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is for children from birth to age 5.

This is an important part of your child’s life as it sets a foundation for their future learning and will prepare them for Primary school when they turn five years old.

The EYFS supports a child’s development and their experiences should be happy, safe and exciting, allowing children to develop at their own rate and pace.

The EYFS is divided into 7 areas of learning; children gain an understanding and knowledge through these areas at different stages.

The 7 areas of learning are divided into prime areas and specific areas. To begin with, the children will focus on these 3 prime areas:

  • Communication and Language;

Listening and attention

Understanding

Speaking

  • Physical Development;

Moving and handling

Health and self-care

  • Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Making relationships

Self-confidence and self-awareness

Managing feelings and behaviour.

 

The prime areas will help to develop skills in 4 specific areas. These are:

  • Literacy;

Reading

Writing

  • Mathematics;

Numbers

Shape, space and measure

  • Understanding the world;

People and communities

The world

Technology

  • Expressive Arts and Design.

Exploring and using media and materials

Being imaginative

Activities and the learning environment are carefully planned around the children’s own interests and needs.

The children’s learning is done through play, enabling children to learn and gain their knowledge and understanding, in a mixture of adult-initiated and adult-led activities.

Characteristics of Effective Learning

Children learn in lots of different ways and the EYFS recognises this. We must take into consideration that all children are different and know when it is necessary to support individual children as well as groups of children.

The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage identifies three characteristics of effective teaching and learning. These are:

PLAYING AND EXPLORING

Finding out and exploring: 

Show curiosity about objects, events and people

Use their senses

Engage in open ended activities

Show interests in particular areas

Playing with what they know;

Pretend objects are things from their experience

Take on a role in their play

Act out experiences with others

Being willing to have a go:

Initiate activities and experiences

Seek challenges

Demonstrate a can-do attitude

Take risks

ACTIVE LEARNING

Being involved and concentrating;

Maintain focus for a period of time

Show high levels of energy

Concentrate without distractions

Pay attention to detail

Keep on trying;

Show persistence with an activity when faced with challenges

Demonstrate aspects of problem solving

Bounce back after difficulties

Enjoying achieving what they set out to do;

Proud of their accomplishments when faced with challenges

Enjoy meeting challenges for their own sake

 CREATING AND THINKING CRITICIALLY

 Having their own ideas;

Find ways to solve problems

Find new ways of doing things

Making Links;

Make links and notice patterns in their experience

Make predictions

Test their ideas

Develop ideas of grouping, sequences, cause and effect

Choosing ways to do things;

Plan, make decisions about how to approach a task, solve a problem and reach a goal

Check how well their activities are going

Change strategy as needed

Review how well the approach worked

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