The pre-school provides a curriculum for the foundation stage of education. This curriculum is set out in a document, published by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Department for Education and Skills, and called Curriculum guidance for the foundation stage. Stradbroke & District Pre-school follows this guidance.
The guidance divides children's learning and development into six areas:
· personal, social and emotional development
· communication, language and literacy development
· mathematical development
· knowledge and understanding of the world
· physical development
· creative development
For each area, the guidance sets out early learning goals. These goals state what it is expected that children will know and be able to do by the end of the reception year of their education.
For each early learning goal, the guidance sets out stepping stones, which describe the stages through which children are likely to pass as they move to achievement of the goal. Stradbroke & District Pre-school uses the early learning goals and their stepping stones to help us to trace each child's progress and to enable us to provide the right activities to help all of the children move towards achievement of the early learning goals.
Physical Development
· Musical instruments
- Threading beads
- Jigsaws
- Soft play
- Outside play
- Painting
- Drawing
- Sand play
- Playdough modelling
- Construction with boxes
Mathematical development
- Sorting games
- Board games
- Water play
- Matching games
- Adding and subtracting
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Understanding concept of size
- Counting
- Sharing and taking turns
- Group activities (singing and musical instruments)
- Cookery
- Snack and meal times
- Showing respect for other childrens work and possessions
- Working in groups
- Local visits (e.g. to a farm, fire station or library)
- Footpath walks
- Planting and growing seeds
- Discussions about the local area
- Talking and listening to adults and other children
- Singing
- Listening to stories
- Introduction of writing skills
- Looking at books and reading
- Alphabet and their sounds
- Learning poems and rhymes
- Using the computers
For more details of the curriculum, see curriculum guidance folder held in pre-school. |
