EYFS Curriculum

The Nursery follows a ‘Creative Curriculum’ alongside the rest of the school.

Children will be encouraged to take part in a range of activities to promote learning in the seven areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum. These are:

• Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Communication and Language
• Physical Development
• Literacy
• Mathematics
• Understanding the World
• Expressive Arts and Design

Activities are planned to enable children to follow their interests and ideas and to participate in a broad and balanced range of activities linked to the EYFS Curriculum. Children are encouraged to develop their learning and understanding through their play and to have fun in a safe and stimulating environment.

Whilst at Nursery children can expect to experience: 

• Settling in, learning routines and expectations
• Learning how to share, take turns and cooperate with other people
• Promote independence in self-care skills like putting on shoes/boots, aprons and washing hands
• Making new friends
• Recognising our own names
• Learning phonic sounds
• Playing imaginative games, talking to others and making up stories whilst playing
• Sharing photos of ourselves, our families and friends
• Sharing stories, songs, rhymes and poems
• Counting, sorting and recognising shapes and written numbers
• Enjoying music, musical instruments, dance, yoga, physical movement and games.
• Painting, drawing, printing, collage and clay
• Exploring malleable materials and ‘messy play’
• Using a variety of construction materials and tools
• Exploring and investigating sand and water using different tools and equipment
• Learning to use ICT equipment
• Exploring the outside environment and learning about the natural world
• Physical activity with large and small apparatus including bikes, scooters, tyres, sliding, and climbing
• 'Forest School’ activities