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Early Years
Nursery and Reception children follow the final year of the Foundation Stage Curriculum which is based on Development Matters. Our aim is to provide quality learning experiences for all the children; learning that is structured, balanced, relevant to the child and related to the real world. Every day your child will have the opportunity to do the following:
Play and Explore
Finding out and exploring
Playing with what they know
Being willing to ‘have a go’
Active Learning
Being involved and concentrating
Keep trying
Enjoying achieving what they set out to do
Creating and Thinking Critically
Having their own ideas
Making links
Choosing ways to do things
The Foundation Stage Curriculum is divided into seven areas of learning.
| Prime Areas | |
|---|---|
| Personal, social and emotional development | Making relationships, Self-confidence and self-awareness, Managing feelings and behaviour |
| Physical development | Moving and handling, Health and self-care |
| Communication and language | Listening and attention, Understanding speaking |
| Specific Areas | |
|---|---|
| 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 |