What is the Early Years
Foundation Stage (EYFS)?
The EYFS is a curriculum for children from
birth to five. It is separated into 3 prime
areas and supported by 4 more specific
areas.
Becoming
school ready…
In order to become ‘school ready’ children need to develop skills
within the 3 prime areas of:
Communication and Language
Physical development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Talking with others informally, in groups, partner work
• Explaining and describing
• Understanding and responding to simple instructions
• Listening with concentration, responding with relevant
Communication
and Language
Skills we will be
working on
comments
• Speaking clearly and audibly
• Listen with enjoyment, to stories, songs, rhymes and poems,
making comments and answering questions and joining in.
• Make up their own stories, songs, and rhymes
• When with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking
turns in conversation.
• Extend vocabulary, and attempt to use new words.
• Question why things happen and give explanations.
What can you
do to help?
Communication and Language:
*Read stories regularly with your child.
*Sing songs and rhymes and encourage your child to join in.
*Talk about the sounds you can hear in the environment.
*Play listening games and praise good listening.
*Listen to your child’s thoughts, ideas and concerns.
*Encourage them to be curious, ask questions and investigate objects and their purposes when
playing.
*Teach them to recognise their name.
• Managing dressing and undressing and personal hygiene
•
Holding pencils correctly and gaining good control
• Using scissors and other one handed tools.
• Beginning to use anticlockwise movement, retrace vertical lines
Physical
Development
Skills we will be
working on
and copy some letters. Moving on to form recognisable letters,
then to form most of their letters correctly.
• Catching large and then smaller balls. Showing increasing
control over catching and kicking .
•
Traveling with confidence and skill around, under, over and
through balancing and climbing equipment.
• Negotiate space successfully when playing racing and chasing
games with other children.
•
Physical Development:
What can you
do to help?
*Get outside!
*Provide opportunities for them to run, jump, climb, kick, catch and throw a ball.
*Encourage the children to hold a pencil, crayon or pen correctly and make marks,
shapes and lines.
*Help children to use one handed tools appropriately such as scissors, spoons, knives
and forks.
*Teach children motor skills to help them learn to write through activities which
require picking up small objects with their fingers/tweezers or other gripping tools,
threading laces and buttons, squeezing water from washing up liquid bottles to make
big shapes on the ground.
*Practise putting on gloves, doing up zips and buttons to help children become more
independent dressing themselves.
• Demonstrate friendly behaviour, playing co-operatively, taking
turns and begin to plan play ideas with others.
• Initiate conversations and take account of what others say
Personal and
social
development
Skills we will be
working on
• Takes steps to resolve conflicts with other children without
aggression, e.g. finding a compromise
• Understands a range of feelings and shows sensitivity to
others,’knowing that some actions and words can hurt others’
feelings.
• Enjoys responsibility of carrying out small tasks.
• Confident to talk to adults and other children when playing,
communicating freely about own home and community.
• Being confident to speak in a familiar group
• Follow the boundaries and behavioural expectations set
What can you
do to help?
Personal, Social and Emotional Development:
*Encourage your child to take on small roles of responsibility at home
(help tidy a room, helping with the cooking/cleaning).
*Spend time with other children of a similar age and praise good
behaviour choices such as turn taking, sharing and compromise.
*Keep structured routines at home and ensure a good bedtime routine.
*Please come and speak to us if you have problems at home with
behaviour.
The 4 specific
areas of
learning…
Literacy (Reading and Writing):
Children learn to write their name. They will learn 4 letters sounds weekly and then
start to write words using phonic knowledge. Gradually they will then learn to write
sentences. They also learn to use their phonic knowledge to help them decode and
read words and then sentences.
Mathematics (Number and Shape, Space and Measure):
Children learn to count to 10 then 20 and recognise the numbers, matching them to
amounts. They will learn to place the numbers in order, write numbers, solve
problems using simple, practical addition, subtraction, doubling and halving. They
will experience measuring, recognising, naming and describing shapes.
Understanding The World:
Understanding people and communities and see similarities and differences between themselves
and others. Talking about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family
members. Showing an interest and talking about our location and the world around them.
Learning about change such as growth of animals and plants. Talk about their observations and
use what they know to make sense of the world. Using a range of different technologies for their
learning and start to select and use technology for particular purposes.
The 4 specific areas
of learning…
Expressive Arts and Design:
Being imaginative by exploring and using media and materials to create for e.g. pictures, music,
stories. Introduce a storyline or narrative into their play and work with others to act out.
Creating models, art and music, having their own ideas and choosing particular colours or
materials for a purpose. Using and exploring a range of processes and materials. Build a
repertoire of songs and dances and explore musical instruments.
Please do use the overview sent
out as a guide for adding your own
comments and photos on your
child’s learning from home.
Your views really count!
Thank you for coming and
for taking an active role in
your child’s education.
Please do come to our
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