Curriculum - EYFS

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

• Develop care of self and the environment

• Take turns, share and play appropriately

• Build confidence and self-esteem

• Understand right from wrong

• Understand and value differences between people, cultures and religions

• Develop independence

• Adjust to change

• Express feelings appropriately

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Communication, Language and Literacy

• Enjoy listening to and using spoken and written language and readily turn it into play and use to communicate their needs with others

• Extend their vocabulary and develop language skills

• Listen to and join in with stories, poems and songs, one to one and also in small groups

• Show interest in illustrations and print in books and in the environment

• Learn how to handle books carefully and appropriately

• Engage in activities requiring hand-eye coordination and use one-handed tools and equipment

• Use puppets and props to make up or retell stories

• Listen to stories through the means of ICT and story tapes

• Contribute photo, drawings, favourite pictures, and artefacts towards child’s own personal diary and encourage turning pages, looking and talking about books

• Begin to use anticlockwise movement and trace vertical lines

• Use a variety of crayons, pencils and thick chalk and learn to hold in correct pencil grip

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Mathematical Development

• Enjoy joining in with number rhymes and songs

• Use numbers and mathematical concepts in play

• Compare groups of objects and organise objects into groups or classification

• Use shape in play and with puzzles, and be aware of shape in the environment

• Observe and use positional language

• Have the opportunity to construct large and small equipment

• Have the opportunity to engage in sand and water play to measure and pour

• Develop an awareness of time, order and sequencing of events

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Knowledge and Understanding of the World

• Show curiosity and observe and manipulate objects

• Investigate construction materials and small world equipment

• Use a range of objects and tools safely and appropriately

• Observe changes in the environment, weather and living creatures

• Have opportunity to be involved in long term growing projects i.e., seeds / plants / vegetables

• Explore their environment and notice features in the place where they live and natural world

• Gain an awareness of the cultures and beliefs of others 

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Creative Development 

• Explore colour, shape, pattern, form and space in 2 and 3 dimensions

• Recognize how sounds can be changed; sing simple songs from memory and make sounds and with body rhythm and musical instruments

• Listen to a range of music/rhythm/instruments

• Make constructions, collages, paintings and drawings using a range of media and materials

• Learn through all of their senses

• Use imagination and ideas, and communicate some of those ideas to others

• Use their bodies to explore texture and space

• Work creatively on a large and small scale

• Use a range of tools and materials with assistance

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Physical Development

• Explore a range of outdoor and indoor large play equipment in a range of ways such as climbing, jumping, balancing, crawling, sliding and rolling

• Construct with large materials such as planks, blocks, cartons and lengths of fabric

• Operate large and small equipment by means of pushing, pulling and turning

• Engage in activities requiring hand-eye coordination such as puzzles, threading, posting, play dough, pouring, stacking and small world equipment

• Explore the dress up clothes, hats, costumes, masks and develop independent dressing skills and observe self and others in mirrors

• Show an awareness of space, themselves and others through movement to music, dance, actions to songs, outdoor games, water play and ride on equipment

• Use a range of mark making tools both vertically (murals) and on flat surfaces of various levels (table top, floor, pavement, sand)

• Explore sensory materials such as shaving foam, slime, sand, mud, rice, textured paper/fabric