Early Years Education
Once a child reaches a
certain pre-school age they become entitled to government money to
attend several weekly Nursery Education classes. This is known as
the Nursery Education Funding (NEF). To find out more about this
scheme contact:
Wakefield
District Families Information Service
on 0800 587
8042.
This Early Years Education is
referred to as the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and children
complete their last year of this stage during their first year at
Primary School (Reception Class).
Early Years Foundation Stage
The overarching aim of the
EYFS is to help young children achieve the five Every Child Matters
outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving,
making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being.
A Unique Child
Recognising that every child is a competent learner from
birth who can be resilient, capable, confident and self- assured.
The commitments are focused around development; inclusion; safety;
and health and well-being.
Positive Relationships
This describes how children
learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure
relationships with parents and/or a key person. The commitments are
focused around respect; partnership with parents; supporting
learning; and the role of the key person.
Enabling Environments
This describes how children
learn to be strong and independent from a base of loving and secure
relationships with parents and/or a key person. The commitments are
focused around respect; partnership with parents; supporting
learning; and the role of the key person.
Learning and Development
Recognising that children
develop and learn in different ways and at different rates, and
that all areas of learning and development are equally important
and inter-connected.
Children are competent
learners from birth and develop and learn in a wide variety of
ways.The care and education offered by our setting helps children
to continue to do this by providing all of the children with
interesting activities that are appropriate for their age and stage
of development.
There are six areas of learning
covered by the Early Learning Goals and educational programmes.
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Personal, Social and
Emotional development
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Communication, Language and
Literacy development
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Problem solving, Reasoning
and Numeracy development
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Knowledge and Understanding
of the World
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Physical
development
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Creative
development
For each area the Early
Learning Goals state what is expected that children will know, and
be able to do by the end of the reception year in their
education.
None of these areas of
Learning and Development can be delivered in isolation from others.
All the areas will be delivered through planned, purposeful play,
with a balance of adult-led and child-initiated
activities.