What will your child be doing all day?
Your child will be following the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
At the heart of the EYFS is the principle that young children need to play to begin to learn and understand about the world around them. The EYFS is based on research of a variety of settings and over 3000 children. Experiences in childcare and early years have a powerful and ongoing impact on children’s learning and their social development, throughout primary school. Good stimulating childcare has a positive effect on children’s progress over and above the influences of their family. The EYFS is founded on the importance of play. It does not require any ‘formal’ approaches, and in fact discourages them, recognizing that children need to play to have fun and to learn about the world around them, by playing freely with support from adults in a safe, secure, and loving environment.
There are 7 Areas of Learning within the EYFS.
The Prime Areas
(the areas that we focus on enhancing and developing from birth- 2years)
Personal, Social and Emotional
Communication and Language
Physical Development
The Specific Areas
(the areas that we focus on enhancing and developing in addition to the prime areas from 2-5)
Mathematics
Understanding the World
Expressive Arts & Design
Literacy
Want to Know more about the EYFS?
At Clever Cloggs young children learn concepts, form ideas, and create their own symbols or abstractions through self-initiated activity – moving, listening, searching, feeling, manipulating. Such activites carried out within a social context in which alert and sensitive staff participate as well as observing makes it possible for the child to be involved in intrinsically interesting experiences that may produce contradictory conclusions and a consequent reorganisation of the child’s understanding of his or her world. We believe that if children are socially and emotionally secure becoming competent learners in an environment where you can make mistakes is a fulfilling journey (Bowlby’s theory of attachment)
More information about the Early Years Foundation Stage can be found below