EYFS curriculum
"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million."
Walt Streightiff
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
Are you looking for an engaging, connected early years curriculum?
At Belinay Early Learning Centre, we adhere to the UK Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum to oversee children’s developmental milestones and academic progress from 1 year to 4 years. We prioritize each child’s holistic development, focusing on fostering curiosity, confidence, and a love for learning across all different areas of development. Children are empowered to thrive and succeed in a nurturing and inclusive environment through engaging activities, supportive interactions, and intentional teaching practices.
Our Early Years’ practitioners offer children a balanced opportunity for child-led and adult- led activities, based on the seven areas of learning and development: three Prime Areas and four Specific Areas.
Prime areas of learning
Communication and Language
Our programme supports children to develop:
- Conversational skills with the other person, in small and large groups, to talk with and listen to others.
- Their vocabulary by learning the meaning of words and being able to use new words.
- Their ability to use words to describe their experiences.
- Their ability to listen to and talk about stories.
Physical Development
Our programme supports children to develop:
- Increased control over the large movements they can make with their arms, legs, and bodies so that they can run, jump, hop, skip, roll, climb, balance, and lift.
- Increased control over the small movements they can make with their arms, wrists, and hands so that they can pick up and use objects, tools and materials; and their understanding of the importance of, and how to look after, their bodies.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Our programme supports children to develop:
- Positive approaches to learning and finding out about the world around them.
- Confidence in themselves and their ability to do things and valuing their own achievements.
- Their ability to get on, work and make friendships with others, both children and adults.
- Their awareness of and ability to keep to the rules we all need to help us look after ourselves, other people and our environment.
- Their ability to dress, undress, and look after personal hygiene needs.
- Their ability to expect that their ways of doing things is respected by their friends/peers and at the same time to respect other people's ways of doing things.
Specific areas of learning
Literacy
Our programme supports children to develop:
- Their knowledge of the sounds and letters that make up words.
- Knowledge of how to handle books and that they can be a source of stories and information.
- Knowledge of the purposes for which we use writing.
- Making their attempts at writing.
Mathematics
Our programme supports children to develop:
- An understanding and idea about --how many, how much, how far and how big.
- An understanding and idea about shapes, patterns and parts of objects, and the amount of space taken up by different objects.
- An understanding that numbers help us answer questions about how many, how much, how far, and how big.
- An understanding and idea about how to use counting to find out how many and how much.
- An understanding and early idea about the result of adding more or taking away from the amount we already have.
Understanding the World
Our programme supports children to develop:
- Knowledge about the natural world and how it works.
- Learning how to choose and use the right tool for a task.
- Learning about computers, how to use them and what they can help us with.
- Skills in how to put together ideas about past and present and the links between them.
- Learning about their locality and its unique features.
- Learning about their own and other (friends/peers) cultures and civilizations.
Expressive Arts and Design
Our programme supports children to develop:
- The use of paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories and role-play to express their ideas and feelings; and
- Their interest in how paint, materials, music, dance, words, stories, and role- play can express ideas and feelings.
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