Marlborough Primary School
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
At the forefront of our practice here at Marlborough are the four overarching principles set out in the EYFS framework:
- Every child is unique
- Positive relationships help children to progress
- Enabling environments help children to learn with their own individual interests and needs
- Learning occurs at different rates for each child
Our Early Years provision offers the dynamic balance of ‘teacher-led’ input and ‘pupil-initiated’ learning. We create a supportive, stimulating context in the foundation stage indoor and outdoor learning areas for children to play and engage in enquiry, discovery and reflection. Daily continuous provision, both indoors and outdoors allows our children to be confident in expressing their ideas, happy to make independent choices, and keen to explore the world around them. It is really important to us that children are encouraged to think and talk about what they are learning and how they are developing, using the language of learning even at this young age. Our calm, neutral, empowering environment is the perfect setting in which both staff and children alike can build safe, strong relationships.
Learning habits and routines are very important to us, we teach pupils how to look after and enjoy the resources around them. We place the children's interests and choices at the heart of the classroom so they feel unique, secure and ready to explore. In our Early Years provision, we also focus on supporting our children to become independent. We take time to support the children in being able to take care of their own physical needs, understanding how to keep their bodies safe and healthy, from hand washing to brushing their teeth.
The Characteristics of Effective Learning
Children are powerful learners from birth. They can develop strong habits of mind and behaviours that will continue to support them to discover, think, create, solve problems and self-regulate their learning.
To allow this to continue here at Marlborough we provide children with experiences of autonomy alongside support for their growing awareness and control of the processes of thinking and learning.
We provide play, time, space and freedom to follow their intentions, sustained shared thinking, and experiencing the satisfaction of meeting their own challenges and goals. All contributing to their development as curious, creative, resourceful and resilientindividuals. The Characteristics of Effective Learning describe behaviours children use in order to learn. To learn well, children must approach opportunities with curiosity, energy and enthusiasm. Effective learning must be meaningful to a child, so that they are able to use what they have learned and apply it in new situations. These abilities and attitudes of strong learners will support them to learn well and make good progress in all 'Areas of Effective Learning and Development'. We believe that these are qualities that all of our children attain whilst in the Foundation Stage at Marlborough.
Our curriculum is underpinned by the seven Areas of Effective Learning;
The ‘Prime Areas’
Here at Marlborough we understand that Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language are at the core of a child's development.
While the Prime areas are especially crucial to early years provision during the first three years, they remain centrally important for children’s development and learning throughout the EYFS and beyond, and should receive priority attention to ensure strong foundations in development and learning. With this in mind we have developed strong links with the school's RHE curriculum and entwined this into our planning.
The Specific Areas
Literacy, Maths, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design are Areas of Learning that cannot be developed alone and rely on the skills gained in the Prime Areas of Learning. They are, however, important for our children to be able to build bridges in their learning appropriately, allowing aspects of these areas to arise naturally as our children make sense of their experiences. They can then develop an awareness of quantity, enjoyment of telling and hearing stories, finding out how things work, rhythm, and movement. We encourage children to represent what they understand with their own actions, marks and words.
Seeing the world through the eyes of children enables us to broaden their experiences and engage them in collaborative activities which promote inquiry, problem-solving, shared decision making and scientific approaches to understanding the world.
Here at Marlborough we have strong links to the community and are always keen to develop the children's understanding of the diverse world around them.
The Early Learning Goals
We use our skills and expertise to create routines, build relationships, develop activities and resources in a rich learning environment which provides pupils with the opportunities and conditions to flourish in all aspects of their development. We provide balance across the areas of learning and look to identify each child’s specific needs, strengths and next steps, so that they can make excellent progress and work towards reaching the Early Learning Goals.
Marlborough Primary School
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
At the forefront of our practice here at Marlborough are the four overarching principles set out in the EYFS framework:
- Every child is unique
- Positive relationships help children to progress
- Enabling environments help children to learn with their own individual interests and needs
- Learning occurs at different rates for each child
Our Early Years provision offers the dynamic balance of ‘teacher-led’ input and ‘pupil-initiated’ learning. We create a supportive, stimulating context in the foundation stage indoor and outdoor learning areas for children to play and engage in enquiry, discovery and reflection. Daily continuous provision, both indoors and outdoors allows our children to be confident in expressing their ideas, happy to make independent choices, and keen to explore the world around them. It is really important to us that children are encouraged to think and talk about what they are learning and how they are developing, using the language of learning even at this young age. Our calm, neutral, empowering environment is the perfect setting in which both staff and children alike can build safe, strong relationships.
Learning habits and routines are very important to us, we teach pupils how to look after and enjoy the resources around them. We place the children's interests and choices at the heart of the classroom so they feel unique, secure and ready to explore. In our Early Years provision, we also focus on supporting our children to become independent. We take time to support the children in being able to take care of their own physical needs, understanding how to keep their bodies safe and healthy, from hand washing to brushing their teeth.
The Characteristics of Effective Learning
Children are powerful learners from birth. They can develop strong habits of mind and behaviours that will continue to support them to discover, think, create, solve problems and self-regulate their learning.
To allow this to continue here at Marlborough we provide children with experiences of autonomy alongside support for their growing awareness and control of the processes of thinking and learning.
We provide play, time, space and freedom to follow their intentions, sustained shared thinking, and experiencing the satisfaction of meeting their own challenges and goals. All contributing to their development as curious, creative, resourceful and resilientindividuals. The Characteristics of Effective Learning describe behaviours children use in order to learn. To learn well, children must approach opportunities with curiosity, energy and enthusiasm. Effective learning must be meaningful to a child, so that they are able to use what they have learned and apply it in new situations. These abilities and attitudes of strong learners will support them to learn well and make good progress in all 'Areas of Effective Learning and Development'. We believe that these are qualities that all of our children attain whilst in the Foundation Stage at Marlborough.
Our curriculum is underpinned by the seven Areas of Effective Learning;
The ‘Prime Areas’
Here at Marlborough we understand that Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language are at the core of a child's development.
While the Prime areas are especially crucial to early years provision during the first three years, they remain centrally important for children’s development and learning throughout the EYFS and beyond, and should receive priority attention to ensure strong foundations in development and learning. With this in mind we have developed strong links with the school's RHE curriculum and entwined this into our planning.
The Specific Areas
Literacy, Maths, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design are Areas of Learning that cannot be developed alone and rely on the skills gained in the Prime Areas of Learning. They are, however, important for our children to be able to build bridges in their learning appropriately, allowing aspects of these areas to arise naturally as our children make sense of their experiences. They can then develop an awareness of quantity, enjoyment of telling and hearing stories, finding out how things work, rhythm, and movement. We encourage children to represent what they understand with their own actions, marks and words.
Seeing the world through the eyes of children enables us to broaden their experiences and engage them in collaborative activities which promote inquiry, problem-solving, shared decision making and scientific approaches to understanding the world.
Here at Marlborough we have strong links to the community and are always keen to develop the children's understanding of the diverse world around them.
The Early Learning Goals
We use our skills and expertise to create routines, build relationships, develop activities and resources in a rich learning environment which provides pupils with the opportunities and conditions to flourish in all aspects of their development. We provide balance across the areas of learning and look to identify each child’s specific needs, strengths and next steps, so that they can make excellent progress and work towards reaching the Early Learning Goals.
Marlborough Primary School
Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
At the forefront of our practice here at Marlborough are the four overarching principles set out in the EYFS framework:
- Every child is unique
- Positive relationships help children to progress
- Enabling environments help children to learn with their own individual interests and needs
- Learning occurs at different rates for each child
Our Early Years provision offers the dynamic balance of ‘teacher-led’ input and ‘pupil-initiated’ learning. We create a supportive, stimulating context in the foundation stage indoor and outdoor learning areas for children to play and engage in enquiry, discovery and reflection. Daily continuous provision, both indoors and outdoors allows our children to be confident in expressing their ideas, happy to make independent choices, and keen to explore the world around them. It is really important to us that children are encouraged to think and talk about what they are learning and how they are developing, using the language of learning even at this young age. Our calm, neutral, empowering environment is the perfect setting in which both staff and children alike can build safe, strong relationships.
Learning habits and routines are very important to us, we teach pupils how to look after and enjoy the resources around them. We place the children's interests and choices at the heart of the classroom so they feel unique, secure and ready to explore. In our Early Years provision, we also focus on supporting our children to become independent. We take time to support the children in being able to take care of their own physical needs, understanding how to keep their bodies safe and healthy, from hand washing to brushing their teeth.
The Characteristics of Effective Learning
Children are powerful learners from birth. They can develop strong habits of mind and behaviours that will continue to support them to discover, think, create, solve problems and self-regulate their learning.
To allow this to continue here at Marlborough we provide children with experiences of autonomy alongside support for their growing awareness and control of the processes of thinking and learning.
We provide play, time, space and freedom to follow their intentions, sustained shared thinking, and experiencing the satisfaction of meeting their own challenges and goals. All contributing to their development as curious, creative, resourceful and resilientindividuals. The Characteristics of Effective Learning describe behaviours children use in order to learn. To learn well, children must approach opportunities with curiosity, energy and enthusiasm. Effective learning must be meaningful to a child, so that they are able to use what they have learned and apply it in new situations. These abilities and attitudes of strong learners will support them to learn well and make good progress in all 'Areas of Effective Learning and Development'. We believe that these are qualities that all of our children attain whilst in the Foundation Stage at Marlborough.
Our curriculum is underpinned by the seven Areas of Effective Learning;
The ‘Prime Areas’
Here at Marlborough we understand that Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication and Language are at the core of a child's development.
While the Prime areas are especially crucial to early years provision during the first three years, they remain centrally important for children’s development and learning throughout the EYFS and beyond, and should receive priority attention to ensure strong foundations in development and learning. With this in mind we have developed strong links with the school's RHE curriculum and entwined this into our planning.
The Specific Areas
Literacy, Maths, Understanding the World and Expressive Arts and Design are Areas of Learning that cannot be developed alone and rely on the skills gained in the Prime Areas of Learning. They are, however, important for our children to be able to build bridges in their learning appropriately, allowing aspects of these areas to arise naturally as our children make sense of their experiences. They can then develop an awareness of quantity, enjoyment of telling and hearing stories, finding out how things work, rhythm, and movement. We encourage children to represent what they understand with their own actions, marks and words.
Seeing the world through the eyes of children enables us to broaden their experiences and engage them in collaborative activities which promote inquiry, problem-solving, shared decision making and scientific approaches to understanding the world.
Here at Marlborough we have strong links to the community and are always keen to develop the children's understanding of the diverse world around them.
The Early Learning Goals
We use our skills and expertise to create routines, build relationships, develop activities and resources in a rich learning environment which provides pupils with the opportunities and conditions to flourish in all aspects of their development. We provide balance across the areas of learning and look to identify each child’s specific needs, strengths and next steps, so that they can make excellent progress and work towards reaching the Early Learning Goals.