Early Years Foundation Stage EYFS

Early Years Foundation

Stage Curriculum

There are seven areas of learning and development that are all equally important and inter-connected.
Three areas are crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.

• communication and language
• physical development
• personal, social and emotional development

There are also four specific areas, through which the three prime areas are strengthened and applied.

• literacy
• mathematics
• understanding the world
• expressive arts and design

Playing and exploring – children investigate and experience things, and ‘have a go’

Active learning – children concentrate and keep on trying if they encounter difficulties, and enjoy achievements

Creating and thinking critically – children have and develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things

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