Curriculum

EYFS

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework is split into seven areas of learning. Three of these are known as the ‘Prime Areas’ and the other four areas are the ‘Specific’ Areas.

The Prime areas

Communication and Language Development

Children’s back-and-forth interactions from an early age form the foundations for language and cognitive development. Communication and Language Development includes listening, attention and understanding, and speaking. This also sets the foundations for literacy and is crucial for progress in literacy skills.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Children’s personal, social and emotional development is crucial for healthy and happy lives and fundamental to their cognitive development. This is where we teach and foster early-age social skills while raising awareness of personal feelings.

Physical Development

This area includes the development of gross motor skills which provide the foundation for happy, healthy and active lives, and fine motor skills which provide the foundation for writing skills.

The Specific areas

Literacy

Word reading and decoding, comprehension, writing

Mathematics

Numbers, numerical patterns, mathematical reasoning

Understanding the World

The physical world, communities, the environment. This area links with History, Geography, Science and Religion in the National Curriculum of England.

Expressive Arts and Design

Imagination and creativity. This area links with Arts, Music and DT in the National curriculum of England.

EYFS Statutory Framework

Primary

The curriculum provides pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge and skills that they need to develop academically as well as in independence, creativity, functional skills and achievement. The curriculum provides an outline of core knowledge around which our trained and qualified teachers develop exciting and stimulating lessons planned according to the learning needs and abilities of pupils. The Primary curriculum is divided in 2 key stages.