EYFS at Marsh Gibbon CE School
Please speak to Mrs Blane to find out more about the EYFS curriculum
INTENT
Our intent is our curriculum, our plan, and what we are going to teach- a balance between child-initiated and adult-led. We aim to inspire a love for ‘life-long’ learning and a sense of awe and wonder about the world we live in. We want to create happy, curious, independent learners. Bringing together the best methodologies, with carefully planned continuous provision and an enabling environment that evolves to meet the needs of our cohort.
“Succeeding together-fostering a love of learning, within a nurturing Christian community, to bring out the best in everyone”.
IMPLEMENTATION
Our implementation is our Pedagogy, what we do, how we teach and present our curriculum. We ensure the children make progress. All staff promote a language rich experience, provide good quality resources in the enabling environment, using enhancements, group work, challenges, invitations to play, interactions in play, as well as play-based learning opportunities that are led by the children’s interests.
We offer high quality teaching of the Prime Areas of Learning, as well focusing on emotional well-being. Our enabling environment and adult interactions support the children as they access the curriculum. Promoting our school values-based approach, we want to help children to reflect on their attitudes and behaviour, putting greater emphasis on self-regulation linked to their personal, social and emotional development. We aim to promote high standards in language and communication, (with the importance of promoting a wide vocabulary) as well as supporting children to gain a high level of emotional literacy, both of which will facilitate their whole learning journey as they progress throughout the school.
We are passionate about reading and extending children’s vocabulary, and actively promote a love of books and stories. We enjoy several story breaks during the day as well as time to share books in the cosy reading corner. We also incorporate Nursery rhyme time daily and share the children’s enthusiasm for this. We promote the importance of developing literacy and synthetic phonic skills in order to read and write independently. In line with the rest of the school we follow a ‘Maths Mastery’ approach in EYFS with an emphasis on studying key skills of number, calculation and shape so that pupils develop deep understanding and the acquisition of mathematical language. Through daily routines and activities, we allow children the opportunity to explore mathematics in everyday context, making it relevant to their interests.
We develop good relationships with the families of the children we teach, aiming to work in partnership, by offering ‘stay and play’ sessions, Phonics and Tapestry workshops, in addition to providing regular opportunities to discuss children’s interests, achievements and next steps in their learning.
IMPACT
Our impact is reviewing teaching and assessing the learning, this shows we make a difference. The children make good progress from their starting point. Impact is shown with our observations and assessments for each child, and mainly when discussing next steps and children’s interests. Our curriculum will meet the needs of our children, including our disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, so we spend time looking at and evaluating how children are learning. We reflect on ongoing observations to identify any gaps in attainment or target potential areas for greater depth. We share wow moments and achievements through Tapestry and regular communication with parents, as well as with the children themselves, allowing them to reflect upon their progress.
Children leaving EYFS to begin their year 1 journey will have a love for ‘life-long’ learning and a sense of awe and wonder about the world we live in. They will be happy, curious and independent learners.
Our intent is our curriculum, our plan, and what we are going to teach- a balance between child-initiated and adult-led. We aim to inspire a love for ‘life-long’ learning and a sense of awe and wonder about the world we live in. We want to create happy, curious, independent learners. Bringing together the best methodologies, with carefully planned continuous provision and an enabling environment that evolves to meet the needs of our cohort.
“Succeeding together-fostering a love of learning, within a nurturing Christian community, to bring out the best in everyone”.
IMPLEMENTATION
Our implementation is our Pedagogy, what we do, how we teach and present our curriculum. We ensure the children make progress. All staff promote a language rich experience, provide good quality resources in the enabling environment, using enhancements, group work, challenges, invitations to play, interactions in play, as well as play-based learning opportunities that are led by the children’s interests.
We offer high quality teaching of the Prime Areas of Learning, as well focusing on emotional well-being. Our enabling environment and adult interactions support the children as they access the curriculum. Promoting our school values-based approach, we want to help children to reflect on their attitudes and behaviour, putting greater emphasis on self-regulation linked to their personal, social and emotional development. We aim to promote high standards in language and communication, (with the importance of promoting a wide vocabulary) as well as supporting children to gain a high level of emotional literacy, both of which will facilitate their whole learning journey as they progress throughout the school.
We are passionate about reading and extending children’s vocabulary, and actively promote a love of books and stories. We enjoy several story breaks during the day as well as time to share books in the cosy reading corner. We also incorporate Nursery rhyme time daily and share the children’s enthusiasm for this. We promote the importance of developing literacy and synthetic phonic skills in order to read and write independently. In line with the rest of the school we follow a ‘Maths Mastery’ approach in EYFS with an emphasis on studying key skills of number, calculation and shape so that pupils develop deep understanding and the acquisition of mathematical language. Through daily routines and activities, we allow children the opportunity to explore mathematics in everyday context, making it relevant to their interests.
We develop good relationships with the families of the children we teach, aiming to work in partnership, by offering ‘stay and play’ sessions, Phonics and Tapestry workshops, in addition to providing regular opportunities to discuss children’s interests, achievements and next steps in their learning.
IMPACT
Our impact is reviewing teaching and assessing the learning, this shows we make a difference. The children make good progress from their starting point. Impact is shown with our observations and assessments for each child, and mainly when discussing next steps and children’s interests. Our curriculum will meet the needs of our children, including our disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND, so we spend time looking at and evaluating how children are learning. We reflect on ongoing observations to identify any gaps in attainment or target potential areas for greater depth. We share wow moments and achievements through Tapestry and regular communication with parents, as well as with the children themselves, allowing them to reflect upon their progress.
Children leaving EYFS to begin their year 1 journey will have a love for ‘life-long’ learning and a sense of awe and wonder about the world we live in. They will be happy, curious and independent learners.
