My Curriculum and the EYFS Explained
The EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) sets the standards for learning and development and care of children from birth - 5 years old. All schools and Ofsted registered early years providers must follow the EYFS, including childminders, preschools, nurseries and school reception classes.
Ofsted uses a detailed report card format with a 5-point grading scale. These reports give parents and carers a detailed look at how well a setting is performing, highlighting their strengths and next steps for improvement.
My Curriculum - and what I want your child to learn whilst they are with me, and the skills I want them to have by the time they leave.
Working to the EYFS I teach the 7 areas of learning, which can be broken into 3 prime areas - personal social and emotional development, communication and language and physical development, and the 4 specific areas of learning - literacy, mathematics, understanding the world and expressive arts and design. They are all important and are all interlinked, and form the building blocks of the national curriculum subjects that children will go on to study.
Early education and the warm loving bonds built, are vital to set the foundations for your child's future educational success, and can have lifelong benefits to their health and happiness. With your child developing at a faster rate in their first five years than at any other time in their life, getting it right is vital to build a healthy brain through those early interactions; support better educational outcomes in the future; reduce poor behaviour; and reduce disparities in later life, especially for children from a disadvantaged background. I want to ignite your child's curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, help them form relationships, and thrive!
So let's start to think about what I want your child to learn during their time with me, in each of the seven areas of development.