Our Early Years Curriculum is designed to provide a strong foundation for your child’s future learning, including developing a positive attitude to learning. In giving your child a broad range of knowledge and skills we lay the foundation for excellent future progress throughout their school and life.

To make this happen, learning and development opportunities are planned around your child’s specific needs and interests and regularly assessed and reviewed. Adults respond to those needs and interests, guiding their development through warm, positive interactions in an encouraging, stimulating and a well-resourced indoor and outdoor environment.

In the Reception Year, it is the adult’s role to extend and provide further challenge to your child’s learning. Here we seek to initiate and offer great depth to your child’s experiences. Our staff skilfully interact and sensitively scaffold, support and enhance your child’s knowledge, skills and understanding. In addition, we help them to develop their thinking through their participation in activities and with the skilled involvement of our staff. 

We meet your child's needs by: 

• caring for the ‘whole’ i.e. your child’s health, both physical and mental, their feelings and their thinking and emotional development 
• ensuring they have the opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding to achieve success and to build a thirst for lifelong learning 
• teaching the foundations of reading, writing and maths that will develop basic (essential) skills and to enable them to access the wider curriculum
• providing a stimulating environment, indoors and out, with many opportunities to be curious, ask questions and to be eager to discover and learn 
• providing opportunities, time and space for them to pursue their own interests, and time to interact and share with others 
• providing opportunities for them to make choices and decisions to develop their independence 
• providing ethnically and culturally diverse experiences including resources and stories which reflect different cultures and values 
• creating a purposeful atmosphere, where teachers can focus on teaching and pupils on learning 
• working closely with you, the parents/carers and respecting the fact that you are experts in the knowledge of your own child. 

Assessments

The Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) is a statutory assessment from September 2021 onwards. It provides a snapshot of where pupils are when they arrive at school. It will provide a starting point to measure the progress schools make with their pupils between Reception and the end of primary school.

Information for parents can be found here.

At the end of the year, pupils are also assessed against the areas of learning as outlined above.