EYFS Info
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
The Early Years Foundation Stage sets the standards that all early year’s providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to promote ‘school readiness’ and gives children a broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school life.
At The Faraway Tree we observe and listen to our children, developing new ways to provide and enhanced and more stimulating experience, which encourages every child to extend and further develop key skills at every level whilst having lots of fun and at the same time making new friends.
There are seven areas of learning and development that must shape the educational programmes within our early years setting. All areas of learning and development are important. Three areas are particularly important for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning, and for building their capacity to learn, form relationships and thrive.
These three areas are the PRIME areas:
We must also support children in four specific areas, through which the prime areas are strengthened and applied.
The four SPECIFIC areas are:
Children are born ready, able and eager to learn. They actively reach out to interact with other people and the world around them. Development is not an automatic process and depends on each unique child having opportunities to interact in positive relationships and enabling environments. It is our duty to ensure we provide each child with these opportunities, meeting each individual child’s needs through planning and assessment.
More information of the seven areas of learning can be obtained from the Nursery, please see a member of staff for more details. During your child’s induction process you will discuss planning and assessment in greater detail.
There are four guiding principles which shape practice in our Early Years setting, these are:
A Unique Child
Every child is a unique child who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured.
Positive Relationships
Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships
Enabling Environment
Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, in which their experiences respond to their individual needs and there is a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and carers.
Learning and Development
Children develop and learn in different ways. The framework covers the education and care of all children in early year’s provision, including children with special educational needs and disabilities.
How this looks in practice:
A Unique Child
Practitioners understand and observe each child’s development and learning, assesses progress and plan for next steps, identify any need for support and keep children safe valuing and respecting all children and families equally.
A Unique Child
Practitioners understand and observe each child’s development and learning, assesses progress and plan for next steps, identify any need for support and keep children safe valuing and respecting all children and families equally.
A Unique Child
Practitioners understand and observe each child’s development and learning, assesses progress and plan for next steps, identify any need for support and keep children safe valuing and respecting all children and families equally.
A Unique Child
Practitioners understand and observe each child’s development and learning, assesses progress and plan for next steps, identify any need for support and keep children safe valuing and respecting all children and families equally.