Foundation Stage

Our EYFS leader is Miss Hulse. Please contact her at school if you require any further information about the EYFS curriculum.

Our Early Years Curriculum is based on the revised EYFS and is planned to lead smoothly into the National Curriculum at KS1 in a way which is relevant and meaningful for all children. The EYFS curriculum stresses the importance of the child’s personal, emotional and social development, the role of physical development and emphasises that early literacy and numeracy lay the foundation for the future learning of all children.

The EYFS framework is organised into seven areas of learning and development, all of which are interdependent and of equal importance;

3 Prime:

• personal, social and emotional development
• communication & language;
• physical development;

4 Specific

• literacy
• mathematics;
• understanding of the world;
• expressive arts and design;

 

Reception and Key Stage 1 children follow ‘Come and See’ Religious Education Programme and are involved in daily acts of Collective Worship.

 

At St. Edmund’s we are working towards children achieving the early learning goals by the end of the reception year. Development Matters age related bands (Unique Child) help staff identify children’s developing knowledge, skills, understanding and attitudes as they make progress towards the early learning goals, throughout the foundation stage. We use the Development matters Positive Relationships and Enabling Environments when planning provision to support learning and development across all seven areas of learning & development /aspects, and when planning for characteristics of learning.

 

Click here for our Early Years policy.