In line with the Early Learning Goals from the Foundation Stage Curriculum we will give all children the opportunity to develop the following skills in the different areas of learning.

PERSONAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Work alone and in groups
• Gain confidence to try new activities, initiate ideas and speak in a familiar group
• Form good relationships with adults and other children
• Learn about their cultures and beliefs and respect those of others
• Develop an understanding of right and wrong
• Respond to a variety of experiences, showing a range of feelings
• Develop independence
• Maintain attention, concentrate, and sit quietly when appropriate
• Manage their own personal hygiene

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

• Use language to imagine and re create roles and experiences
• Enjoy listening to and using the spoken and written language
• Speak clearly and audibly
• Use a pencil and attempt writing for a variety of purposes
• Begin to link sounds and letters, naming and sounding letters of the alphabet
• Use language to organise, sequence, clarify thinking ideas, feelings and events
• Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities and taking turns in conversation
• Listen and respond to stories, rhymes, songs and other music

MATHMATICAL DEVELOPMENT

• Use number names in familiar contexts
• Count up to 10 with familiar objects
• Recognise numerals 1-9
• Use language such as ‘more’ or ‘less’
• Begin to use numbers to ‘subtract’ and ‘add’
• Talk about, recognise and recreate simple patterns
• Talk and recognise colour
• Use language such as ‘greater’, ‘smaller’, ‘lighter’, ‘heavier’
• Use mathematical language, ideas and methods to solve practical problems

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD

• Use their senses to investigate objects and materials
• Find out about and identify some features of living things, objects and events they observe within the environment and natural world
• Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change
• Ask questions about why things happen and how things work
• Build and construct with a variety of objects
• Select appropriate tools and techniques
• Begin to use ICT and computers
• Develop an interest in past and present events in their own lives and the people they know
• Begin to know about their own culture and beliefs and those of other people

PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

• Move with confidence, imagination, safety, control and co- ordination
• Move around, under, over and through balancing and climbing equipment
• Show an awareness of space of themselves and others
• Learn the importance of keeping healthy and how to achieve this
• Recognise the changes that happen to their bodies when they are active
• Use a range of small and large equipment
• Handle tools, objects, construction and malleable materials safely and with increasing control