Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
The Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum covers the following areas through a range of Topic Based themes:
1. Personal, Social & Emotional Development
- Building Confidence to choose activities and discuss ideas
- Build awareness of needing help, and confidence to ask
- Confidence to speak in a group of familiar peers
- Working as part of a group, following rules where appropriate
- Forming positive relationships with peers and adults
- Playing co-operatively, taking turns
2. Communication & Language
- Listening attentively, including while completing tasks
- Listening to stories and responding to prompts and ideas
- Following instructions to carry out activities
- Expression of ideas, including real-life and fictional ideas
- Using past, present and future forms of language
3. Physical Development
- Developing control and coordination of movement
- Handling equipment and tools, including for writing
- Learning about healthy diet and exercise
- Managing their own hygiene and personal needs
4. Literacy
- Use phonics to decode straightforward words
- Read simple sentences
- Discuss what has been read
- Use phonics knowledge to write simple words and sentences
5. Mathematics
- Count reliably with numbers up to 20
- Use counting on and number knowledge for simple addition
- Begin to recognise and describe simple patterns
- Use everyday language to talk about size, position, time, etc
- Use mathematical language to describe shapes and objects
6. Understanding the World
- Talk about events in teir own lives and that of their family
- Know about similarities and differences between communities
- Talk about similarities and differences between objects
- Make observations of plants and animals
- Recognise that technology is used in homes and schools
7. Expressive Arts and Design
- Experiment with songs, music and dance
- Use a range of artistic materials, tolls and techniques
- Work imaginatively to create new works
- Represent ideas through art, music, role-play, dance and stories