Early Years Foundation Stage EYFS

The Early Years at Gainsborough

We believe that children will grow and develop throughout their school life and beyond if they build firm foundations in the Early years.

Our key aim at Gainsborough is to provide a broad and balanced, varied curriculum to help our child gain the skills needed to further their educational journey.

We plan carefully so that all children are able to access, explore, enjoy and flourish every day. We promote a love for reading from an early age, providing our children with new and exciting vocabulary to shape their future.

Our Curriculum aims to focus on key skills to enable children to know more and remember more and build firm foundations for their learning.

Our curriculum aims to be a fun and creative provision to support, engage and challenge all learners and all abilities.

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

Home-School Partnership

This partnership is central to everything we do and we actively encourage an open and supportive partnership between home and school from Nursery through to Year Six. The importance of small details or changes that may affect your child cannot be underestimated and we encourage you to inform any member of our Foundation team at the start or end of the school day.