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