Lyndhurst Day Nursery
Pre-School Room Curriculum

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The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the statutory framework used across England in nurseries, preschools, childminding settings and reception classes. It sets out how early years providers support children’s learning, development and overall wellbeing from birth to five, and outlines the standards that all Ofsted‑registered settings must follow.

The EYFS is divided across the 7 areas of learning. We focus on independence to create happy, confident little learners

 

Literacy

Engage in extended conversations about stories, learning new vocabulary

Understand key concepts about print

Write some letters accurately along with some or all of their name

Communication and Language

Enjoy listening to longer stories, remembering much of it and pay attention to more than 1 thing at once

Develop communication, pronunciation and use a wider range of vocabulary

Understand 2 part  questions or instructions  

Be able to express a point of view and start a conversation, using talk to organise their play

Physical

Begin to make sense of self and own family, developing positive attitudes about the differences between people

Talk about what they see using all their senses in hands on exploration exploring materials and how things work

Begin to understand life cycles, plant and care for seeds respecting the environment and living things

Know there are different countries and talk about differences

Understanding the world

Explore different materials both indoors and outdoors

Explore and respond to different natural phenomena in the nursery and on trips

Notice differences between people, making connections between their families and others  

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Develop sense of responsibility and being part of a community, showing more confidence in new social situations and  become more outgoing with unfamiliar people

Play with others, finding solutions to conflicts

Understanding the importance of, and follow rules, remembering them without an adult to remind them

Develop ways to be assertive and speak to others to resolve problems and talk about feelings gradually understanding how others may feel

Become increasingly independent in own care and make healthy choices with food, and activities

Expressive Arts and Design

Use imagination in play, developing complex stories and taking part in pretend play using objects to represent something else

Exploring colours, materials and textures developing own ideas to decide what to make

Show emotions in drawings, increasing complexity and detail and begin to create closed shapes

Listen and respond to sounds, expressing feelings

Sing learnt songs and make up own around one they know

Mathematics

Develop fast recognition of up to 3 objects, reciting numbers past 5 and showing fingers upto 5

Compare quantities, solve problems with numbers upto 5

Talk about and explore shapes, positioning and size/weight comparisons

Begin to describe a sequence of events, notice patterns and errors in them along with describing patterns using informal language 

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