Pupils in Red Class follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework.

This curriculum sets the standards for their learning, development and care, ensuring they are supported to grow in a safe, nurturing environment.

The EYFS Areas of Learning:

Prime Areas

Communication and Language
Developing children’s ability to listen, understand and speak, helping them communicate their ideas and hold conversations.

Physical Development
Supporting children to move, coordinate and develop fine and gross motor skills.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)
Helping children self-regulate, manage emotions, build relationships, develop confidence and become independent.

Specific Areas

Literacy
Developing early reading and writing skills, including understanding stories, word reading and writing letters, words and simple phrases and sentences.

Mathematics
Developing children’s understanding of numbers, number patterns and problem‑solving.

Understanding the World
Helping children explore the natural world, understand the past and compare it with the present and to find out about people, culture and communities.

Expressive Arts and Design
Encouraging children’s creativity, imagination and self‑expression through art, music, movement and role play.

 

The Characteristics of Effective Learning:  

These underpin the curriculum and describe how children learn in the EYFS, focusing on their attitudes, behaviours and approaches to learning rather than what they learn.

There are three main characteristics:

Playing and Exploring : Children show curiosity, investigate, and are willing to have a go, developing their own ideas through play.

Active Learning: Children are motivated and involved, concentrating, persisting with challenges, and enjoying their achievements.

Creating and Thinking Critically: Children develop their own ideas, make links, solve problems and reflect on their learning.

Together, these characteristics support children to become curious, resilient and independent learners, enabling progress across all areas of learning.

Assessment:

The Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) is a short, age‑appropriate assessment carried out within the first six weeks of Reception, which looks at children’s early mathematics, literacy and communication skills when they start school.

The EYFS curriculum recognises that every child is unique and develops at their own pace. Assessment is ongoing and helps to ensure that children are making progress towards the Early Learning Goals (ELG) by the end of Reception.

GLD (Good Level of Development) is a measure of attainment at the end of the Reception year, showing whether a child has reached the expected level in key EYFS areas.

Development Matters is guidance that supports practitioners in understanding how children develop and learn, helping them assess, plan and support progress within the EYFS.

Please see below for further information about EYFS: