EARLY YEARS
EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE (PRE SCHOOL AND RECEPTION)
» Overview
» Preschool Curriculum
» Reception Curriculum
Overview
The Foundation Stage provides the curriculum framework for practitioners working from birth to the end of the Reception year. It is a distinct phase that provides rich and diverse opportunities for lifelong learning. Our aim is to provide a caring, safe and stimulating environment where every child feels empowered to develop as an independent learner. Our practitioners will provide opportunities that build upon students’ experiences and interests to enable all children to reach their potential in every aspect of their development.
The Curriculum is divided into three Prime Areas - Personal, Social and Emotional Development; Physical Development; Communication and Language and four Specific areas - Literacy; Mathematics; Understanding the World; Expressive Arts and Design. Each area provides expectations for a child's development within specific age brackets culminating in an early learning goal. Staff use the curriculum to help trace each child's progress throughout their time in EYFS. Children work towards being able to achieve these early learning goals by the end of their reception year in school. By focusing on these areas, children form a firm foundation on which to build future learning and help them develop the skills necessary for developing reading and writing, for understanding of the world and for engaging with the arts and design.
We place high importance on developing children’s physical and emotional well-being. Through early observation our practitioners create an environment in which all our children can thrive. Through a rich choice of play-based activities as well as group and individual learning with teachers and other adults, the children develop the skills of listening and developing language to express their ideas, thoughts and feelings; they develop the skills to control and coordinate their bodies and handle equipment and resources and they develop an awareness of themselves, of others and of their feelings and relationships.
Through our reading curriculum, we expose children to a broad range of texts and teach them how to develop an understanding of what they read. Exposure to reading begins in our Pre-School, where pre-phonics is taught. Children are also exposed to good quality texts where they are a part of story-mapping and discussions based around the texts. In Reception and Key Stage One, Read Write Inc Phonics is taught to fully embed those early reading skills necessary to build independent, confident readers.
Much of the curriculum at AVA is integrated through an overall topic or theme. This helps the children to apply and make sense of their learning and to make connections between different subjects, whilst constantly reinforcing and practising key skills, such as reading, writing and numeracy taught in their daily mathematics, literacy, and phonics sessions.
Long-term curriculum plans are available below.
PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM CONTENT
Click on the link below to view the curriculum content for each half-term.
2023-2024 |
|
|---|---|
| AUTUMN 1 | AUTUMN 2 |
|
|
|
2023-2024 |
|
| SPRING 1 | SPRING 2 |
|
|
|
2023-2024 |
|
| SUMMER 1 | SUMMER 2 (2022-2023) |
|
|
|
RECEPTION CURRICULUM CONTENT
2023-2024 |
|
|---|---|
| AUTUMN 1 | AUTUMN 2 |
|
|
|
2023-2024 |
|
| SPRING 1 | SPRING 2 |
|
|
|
2023-2024 |
|
| SUMMER 1 | SUMMER 2 |
|
|
|
