EYFS Curriculum
Curriculum – EYFS
Our Early Years Curriculum Vision
INTENT
Ingleton C of E Primary School aims to provide an EYFS curriculum that inspires future thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers. We will provide a safe, loving, and nurturing environment, where all children can learn and develop to their fullest potential. We will encourage children to be kind, honest and respectful to others and to develop a love of learning.
IMPLEMENTATION
Our Early Years teaching ensures that children are equipped with a range of knowledge, skills and experiences that provide the right foundation for good progress through school and life. Our curriculum has the ‘love of reading’ at its core and many activities are structured around quality, age-appropriate texts, which provide an additional source of rich vocabulary. This contributes to maintaining an exciting and stimulating learning environment.
The Early Years curriculum is delivered through:
- Planned and purposeful play-based activities.
- Objective-led questioning which will challenge children to move their learning forward.
- Teacher-directed lessons and learning activities
- Child-led activities
- Opportunities for exploration, choice, and decision-making by the children
- Well-resourced indoor and outdoor environments
IMPACT
In Early Years, our pupils will:
- Develop language acquisition and expand their vocabulary to become confident and effective communicators.
- Extend their understanding in personal, social, and emotional development to become resilient and self-assured learners.
- Be taught how to manage their feelings and behaviour in a range of situations.
- Develop their knowledge in early literacy and mathematics.
- Acquire a range of physical key skills including rolling, bowling, throwing, catching, and fine and gross motor control.
- Acquire a range of artistic key skills including drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, textiles, and printing.
- Explore the world around them and deepen their understanding of living things and the environment.
- Experience a curriculum immersed in story and literature.
- Begin to transfer their learning (taught skills) into the wider environment, especially the outdoors and become competent problem solvers.
- Talk about features of their immediate environment and how they might vary from other environments.
- Gain knowledge about past and present events in their own lives and of family members.
Full coverage of our EYFS curriculum will:
- Ensure that each child’s education has continuity, progression, and readiness for the next stage of learning.
- Enable all children to contribute positively within a culturally diverse society.
- Promotes challenge and innovation.
- Provide opportunities for each child to learn in different environments.