In this section of the website, you will find information about our early years curriculum at Seascape.
- The intent provides information on our Early Years offer, including our provision and approach to the Foundation Stage.
- The implementation provides an overview of the vocabulary and skills progression across the Early Years.
- The impact shows the improvements you will see across our Early Years at Seascape.
Early Years Ethos and Intent
Introduction
‘Every child deserves the best possible start in life and support to fulfil their potential. A child’s experience in early years has a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in its own right and provides the foundation for children to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up.’
Early Years Foundation Stage Profile: Department for Children, Schools and Families 2012
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) applies to children from birth to the end of the reception year. Our Early Years Foundation Stage at Seascape Primary School accommodates children aged between 2 and 5. Children can be admitted to our Rainbow Room from 2 years old, our nursery accommodates our 3 and 4 year old children and children are admitted to reception in the September following their fourth birthday.
We believe that early childhood is the foundation on which children build the rest of their lives. At Seascape Primary School we greatly value the importance that the EYFS plays in laying secure foundations for future learning and development.
Aims and Objectives
We aim to support all children to become independent and collaborative learners. We will provide a broad and balance curriculum that will enable each child to develop personally, socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically, creatively and intellectually to their full potential.
As Early Years Educators at Seascape Primary School we will:
- Provide a happy, safe, stimulating and challenging programme of learning and development for the children to experience as they begin their journey through school.
- Provide a broad, balanced, relevant and creative curriculum that will set in place firm foundations for further learning and development in Key Stage One and beyond. Enabling choice, decision making and fostering independence and self-confidence.
- Use and value what each child can do, assessing their individual needs and next steps and helping each child to progress. We will use a variety of assessment methods including ongoing and more formalised observations.
- Develop positive relationships with parents and carers to build a strong partnership in supporting their children.
- Provide a caring and inclusive learning environment which is sensitive to the requirements of the individual child including those who have additional needs.
- Provide staff who will care for children resources which are clean, well-cared for and safe.
In fulfilling these aims we recognise that how children are encouraged to learn is as important as what they learn, and that purposeful play is a young child’s work.
The Early Years education we offer is based on the following principles:
- It takes into account a range of starting points and matches learning appropriately.
- It builds on children’s prior learning and experiences.
- It provides a safe and caring environment which is inclusive of all children.
- It recognises the importance of every member of staff in supporting the transition process from the Rainbow Room to Nursery, from Nursery to Reception and from Reception into Key Stage One.
The Early Years is based on 4 themes:
- A unique child
- Positive relationships
- Enabling environments
- Learning and Development
Curriculum and Intent
The EYFS Curriculum- Our curriculum in Early Years reflects the areas of learning identified in the Early Learning Goals.
There are 7 areas of learning and development that must shape educational provision in Early Years settings. All areas of learning are important and are inter-connected and therefore none of the areas of learning can be delivered in isolation to another.
They require a balance of adult led, adult directed and child initiated activities in order for most children to reach the levels required at the end of the Early Years.
The three prime areas are:
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Communication and Language
- Physical Development
Staff will also support children in four specific areas, which will help to strengthen the three prime areas. They are:
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Arts and Design
During the child’s experience of our Rainbow Room and Nursery the focus will be mainly on the 3 prime areas of learning, this shift will change towards the end of the Reception year where the focus of all areas of learning become more equal.
Our Reception pupils will also experience a daily phonics session following the Read Write Inc. programme and will also receive a daily maths session.
Nursery children will participate in a daily maths or phonics session. Phonics in our Nursery uses the Letters and Sounds document and is based on early phonics with a music focus.
EYFS Implementation
View our Rainbow Room information leaflet below:
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