Early Learning Goals 

The Early Learning Goals (ELGs) are the goals or targets children are expected to achieve at the end of their Reception year. They will be working towards these goals throughout the Early Years Foundation Stage. There are 17 ELGs across all the areas of learning as shown below.

EYFS Curriculum Information

The children are encourages to be independent learners right from the beginning of their journey with us. The Early Years environment is set up with continuous provision and enhanced provision. The continuous provision such as tools, toys, apparatus, paper etc are set up all the time and can easily be accessed by children during their 'busy learning' time. Enhanced provision are activities and prompts set up by the adults for children to try if they want to. They are starting points for children unsure what to do first and can easily spark another idea or activity for the children to try. We encourage children to access the provision independently but support their ideas and exploration through playing with them, asking questions, prompting vocabulary and trying things together. As the year goes on there are some structured activities the children are asked to complete, called 'Passport Jobs'. These are tasks related to our previous learning that children are asked to complete at some point during their busy learning time. 

We use a 'book of the week' to read and get to know and the enhanced provision is linked to these books. The children may have an interest in something in particular that we are not currently looking at and we embrace their ideas by exploring this will them and getting/creating items to support their interest.

Planning on paper

As a school we follow 'Little Wandle' phonics/reading planning and assessment. This begins in EYFS and continues throughout school into Year One and Year two, allowing children to learn, progress, fill any gaps in their learning and use their learning in reading, writing and beyond. The children are assessed every six weeks to accurately check their understanding and progress of the phonics they are learning and allows teachers to support and consolidate any gaps in learning before moving on.

In Maths, we follow White Rose Planning to support a full and inquisitive maths curriculum. Using this makes sure the EYFS curriculum is taught progressively and timely and encourages space for children to explore, discuss and connect their ideas.

Observations

We use Tapestry to share 'wow moments' the children have throughout the year. Tapestry is a great 'two-way' tool we use to share things from school but also for parents to share important pictures/videos and events from home.