We are Ofsted registered and aim to meet the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework, which consists of 7 areas of learning. These are split into two parts, the ‘Prime’ areas and the ‘Specific’ areas.
The Prime Area has Three Aims for the under 3s:
PSED: Personal, Social & Emotional Development
This area of learning & development is about how your child:
- Is confident & self assured
- Manages their feelings & behaviour
- Makes friends
- Shares & takes turns
PD: Physical Development
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This area of learning & development is about how your child:
- Moves and uses gross motor skills
- Develops fine motor skills
- Learns about healthy living
- Manages self care independently
CD: Communication & Language
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This area of learning & development is about how your child
- Listens and pays attention
- Understands what is being said
- Communicates with others
- Develops vocabulary and speech
The Four Specific Areas which are Aimed at the over 3s are:
Literacy
Development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems, and other written materials) to ignite their interest.
Mathematics
Involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures
Expressive Art & Design
Involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.
Understanding of the world
Involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.
As practitioners we observe your children daily, focusing on the interests and skills. We use this information to plan educational experiences and activities based on our findings.
‘Observation is the best possible way to gain knowledge about a child; and plan, support, improve & extend future learning’ Nutbrown 1994-2012.
Parents can keep up to date with what your child is doing by looking at the ‘Family’ app. We use the app to update parents/carers of what we have been doing. Here parents/carers can send messages to us and us to them, view pictures of their children doing activities or something interesting through the day. Check what your baby has eaten for the day and when they fell asleep. We are moving with the times by using this app and hope to gain more connections with all our parents/carers this way.
If you would like to find out more about EYFS please go to http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/
The Two Year Old Progress Report
This initiative all pre-schools must write a progress report for your child. This is to enhance early education and increase the use of early intervention. Your child’s key-person will must write a report on your child between 2/3 Years of age looking especially at their development in the areas of learning from the EYFS.
The ‘Prime Areas’ and ‘Specific’. This will give you a good indication of how your child is developing and allow us to work together to best make any improvements needed.