EYFS Curriculum
At Millies, the curriculum is organised and thoughtfully planned to extend and support the development of children’s knowledge and their skills, this is promoted through both our inside and outside learning environments.
Staff, are skilled to plan for the children in their care. Staff will use use their professional judgement through high quality interactions and daily observations that will enhance the class room planners for each child to play and develop in. This will be through balanced child lead and adult led activities.
The Government’s statutory framework Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the core of our curriculum and our foundations to ensure children thrive in our care
Our intention is to:
- Spark a love of learning.
- Plan high quality teaching and learning opportunities.
- Enable moments of awe and wonder that spark children’s curiosity to investigate, explore and learn at their own pace.
- Support can do attitude, resilience and growth mindset.
- Support wellbeing and self regulation .
- Be school ready.
Birth To 5 Matters
The seven areas of learning detailed in the governments development matters framework form the fundamentals of teaching and learning opportunities across the nursery.
Here is an overview of the new Birth to 5 Matters, this is the Non-statutory curriculum guidance for the early years foundation stage.
Seven key features of effective practice:
- The best for every child
- High-quality care
- The curriculum: what we want children to learn
- Pedagogy: helping children to learn
- Assessment: checking what children have learnt
- Self-regulation and executive function
- Partnership with parents
The characteristics of effective teaching and learning
Playing and exploring
Active learning
Creating and thinking critically
The seven areas of learning are categorised as follows:
- Communication and Language
- English as an additional language
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the world
- Expressive arts and design
British values
Fundamental British values have already been implicitly embedded in the Early Years Foundation Stage since 2014 and at Millies we are passionate about promoting, embedding and celebrating ‘British Values’ within our learning environments.
The fundamental British values are:
- Democracy.
- Rule of law.
- Individual liberty.
- Mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths.
These British values are woven into everyday practice and daily routines.
English as an additional language
Millies celebrate the diversity of languages spoken within the settings, as well as the educational benefits of speaking multiple languages. We work in partnership with parents to ensure children’s needs, wants and interests are being met and we differentiate learning opportunities to ensure all children are able to access them. Key workers will work in partnership with parents, to settle, build relationships and time to take in a new language while keeping their first / home language.
