Early Years Foundation Stage
Early Years Foundation Stage Leader: Mrs G Lakin
Our early years setting follows the curriculum as outlined in the 2022 statutory framework of the EYFS.
The EYFS framework includes 7 areas of learning and development that are equally important and inter-connected. However, 3 areas known as the prime areas are seen as particularly important for igniting curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building children’s capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.
The prime areas are:
Communication and language
Physical development
Personal, social and emotional development
The prime areas are strengthened and applied through 4 specific areas:
Literacy
Mathematics
Understanding the world
Expressive arts and design
The Characteristics of Effective Learning underpin our curriculum:
Playing and Exploring children investigate and experience things, and have a go
Active Learning children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements
Creating and Thinking Critically children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things
In the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) at Balby Central Primary Academy we provide children with high quality experiences and explicit teaching opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills. Positive interactions between children and adults promoting confidence and self-esteem and are used alongside structured activities. We promote play and exploration stimulating interest and extending the curiosity of the child with adults acting as facilitators to learning. In their play children learn at their highest level and play with peers is important for children’s development. Adults use every opportunity to model and develop children's language and vocabulary.
The concepts we teach are carefully chosen to help children become active participants in their own development an the world around them. Through explicit teaching and high-quality books, we ensure that learning is purposeful, giving every child the foundation they need to thrive as lifelong learners and valued members of the Balby Central Primary Academy family and the wider community in which they live.
As well as high quality work we celebrate children’s effort, perseverance and a demonstration of a desire to develop and learn.
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