Exeter Road Community Primary School

Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum

Intent

At Exeter Road Community Primary School our EYFS curriculum provides opportunities for our children to develop as independent, confident, successful learners with high aspirations who know how to make a positive contribution to their community and wider society.

Our goal is to ensure that all children are happy and engaged and making individual progress. Our curriculum results in significant changes in a child’s learning capacity, leading to better outcomes in regulation, relationships, and resilience. We believe that children need rich opportunities to initiate ideas and activities so that they develop the learning characteristics that will support lifelong learning.

Implementation

Through the EYFS curriculum that we provide the children will continually demonstrate their ability to:

• play and explore

• learn actively

• create and think critically

We provide carefully planned provision and expert interactions with highly experience staff to ensure every child is able to meet their next steps and that every interaction is a learning interaction.

The ShREC approach is embedded in our environment ensuring high quality interactions:

Share attention to what the child is focussed on
Respond to children’s verbal and non-verbal communication
Expand what the child is saying and add words to make sentences
Conversation have extended serve and return interactions

Our environment enables children to challenge themselves physically and develop crucial pre-writing skills. Children learn to work together, risk-take and are challenged by the resources and adults to reach their potential.

We ensure all children are inspired and motivated to actively participate in our curriculum in order that they experience enjoyment and develop the ability to continue their learning journeys beyond our Early Years.

Impact

At Exeter Road School our Early Years pupils become resilient, independent, confident learners who are ready for the next step of their education.