Curriculum
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) became Law in September 2008 and applies to all children from birth up to the end of the reception year. The EYFS is divided into four Themes, each with a Principle and four Commitments.
Principle |
Commitments |
A Unique Child—Every child is a competent learner from birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured. |
1.Child Development
2.Inclusive Practice
3.Keeping Safe
4.Health and Well-being |
Positive Relationships—children learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure relationships with parents and/or key person. |
1.Respecting Each Other
2.Parents as Partners
3.Supporting Learning
4.Key person |
Enabling Environments—the environment plays a key role in supporting and extending children’s development and learning. |
1.Observation, Assessment and Planning, 2.Supporting Every Child
3.The Learning Environment
4.The Wider Context |
Learning and Development—children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates and all areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected. |
1.Play and Exploration
2.Active Learning
3.Creativity and Critical Thinking
4.Areas of Learning and Development |
At Pamphill we cover all of the commitments through our policies and procedures, which are available for parents to view at any time, and through our child initiated planning system
Through creating an environment for children to develop and achieve we are actively able to record, monitor and assess against learning within:
- Personal and Social Development
- Communication, Language and Literacy
- Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Physical Development
- Creative Development
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