| All nurseries are required to provide a curriculum plan to ensure the children that attend develop and learn certain skills before starting school. What OFSTED call the Foundation Stage begins when children reach the age of three. The curriculum should ensure that children achieve Early Learning Goals by the end of the foundation stage.
By the age of three children will have already learnt a great deal. They will have learnt a great deal, particularly from their families, and will have varied interests and competencies. Children aged three, four and five are constantly encountering new experiences and seeking to understand them in order to extend their skills, develop their confidence and build on what they already know. They learn in many different ways. Children deepen their understanding by playing, talking, observing, planning, questioning, experimenting, testing, repeating, reflecting and responding to adults and to each other. Well planned play is a key way children learn with enjoyment and challenge during the foundation stage.
At Pendle View Nursery we plan activities and experiences which help children make progress in their development and learning. We provide a well resourced and planned curriculum to take their learning forward and to provide opportunities for all children to succeed in an atmosphere of care and of feeling valued.
The last year of the foundation stage is often described as the reception year, since most children are admitted to the reception class of a primary school at some point during that year. The foundation stage ends at the end of the reception year.
The curriculum for the foundation stage should underpin all future learning by supporting, fostering, promoting and developing children’s:
6 Early Learning Goals
- Personal and Social Skills
- Language and Literacy
- Mathematics
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Physical Skills
- Creative Skills
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