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Our Aims and Objectives
Within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
We aim to achieve personal, social and emotional development through providing an environment where children can learn how to work and play happily and purposefully together, and relate well to other children and adults. The children are given the opportunity to learn about themselves, their needs, views and feelings in response to experiences. We build their confidence through giving them the opportunity to make their own choices through the wide range of activities provided during each morning session. We aim to develop their sensitivity and respect for other people, their cultures and beliefs by encouraging them to be interested in and excited by other children’s experiences as well as their own.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
We aim to achieve a knowledge and understanding of the world by getting the children to explore their environment and use their senses through observation and comparison. The children are given the opportunity to investigate living things and natural materials and are encouraged to look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change. We encourage the children to work things out for themselves through experimentation. They begin to solve simple problems through practical activities and start to ask questions about how and why things work. We aim to introduce the children into the world of technology using a variety of different tools such as the computer, tape recorders, calculators and electronic toys. We aim to develop their spatial awareness through learning how to use tools safely, ensure they acquire the skills of cutting, building and joining and encourage them to create their own models with a range of equipment.
Physical Development
We aim to achieve physical development through encouraging the children to explore movement using their imagination. This is achieved through encouraging the children to use the space around them, to travel around, under, over and through equipment. They begin to develop body awareness, control and co-ordination, and start to recognise changes that happen to their bodies when they are active. We also develop fine motor skills by using tools, objects, construction pieces and malleable materials, safely and with increasing control. The children are taught about the importance of keeping healthy, and the things which contribute to this.
Communication, Language and Literacy Development
We aim to achieve communication, language and literacy development by encouraging the children to extend their vocabulary through conversations with other children and adults and exploring the meaning and sounds of new words. We offer them the opportunity to develop confident speech whilst also becoming aware of the importance of listening. We ensure that the children can express their needs clearly, and encourage them to talk about their feelings and share their ideas. We encourage the children to respond to stories, music, rhymes and poems and where appropriate create their own, exploring and experimenting with sounds, words and text. We aim to introduce them to letters and words through day to day activities. They firstly become aware of their names and the letters that make up their names, then they move onto explore the sound of the alphabet and how the sound changes when letters are linked together.
Creative Development
We aim to achieve creative development through the use of colour, texture, shapes, pattern, and space in their pictures and model making. The children learn about different sounds and how they can be changed. They learn simple songs to sing, they hear repeated sounds and sound patterns and are encouraged to move to music. We aim to develop their imagination through role-play situations, stories, music, dancing and in creative work. They are encouraged to use their senses in a variety of ways and talk about what they can see, smell, hear, touch and feel.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy Development
We aim to achieve mathematical development through generating an awareness of how we use numbers in everyday life. The children learn to count up to twenty and become aware of how the amount changes when objects are added or removed and groups are combined together. During the term each child is given the opportunity to count the number of children present during the session. The children learn to recognise numbers. We offer activities, which encourage the children to match, sort, combine and order objects using everyday play materials and talk about what they are doing. We teach number rhymes and enjoy stories, which help the children learn the mathematical language. Through practical activities the children learn the language of shape, position, size and quantity. The children become aware of simple patterns and are encouraged to create their own using a range of materials.
