Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Curriculum Intent 

Our curriculum intent aims to:

  • Be rooted in the principles of Catholic Teaching, encouraging our pupils to grow in self-awareness, becoming advocates of social justice, adaptable to any social context. 
  • Develop communication skills necessary for learning and life, promoting enjoyment, high expectations and standards in reading, writing and maths across all subject areas. 
  • Be memorable: providing diverse, SMSC rich opportunities from which children learn and develop a range of transferrable skills.
  • Raise aspirations, engender a sense of personal pride in achievement, provide a purpose and relevance for learning and ultimately to help every student to find strength and interests.
  • Empower pupils to respect each other and themselves, show respect and understanding for people of all faiths, race and gender, and for all living things, promoting stewardship and ensuring children are well prepared for life in a rapidly changing world. 

Curriculum in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well and are kept healthy and safe. It promotes teaching and learning to ensure children’s ‘school readiness’ and gives children the broad range of knowledge and skills that provide the right foundation for good future progress through school and life.

A summary of the framework is outlined below.

Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework 

Four Guiding Principles for the EYFS Framework

Throughout the Nursery and Reception, we follow the statutory framework for EYFS, supported by non-statutory guidance set out in a document called Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Development Matters in Early Years Foundation Stage

• Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured

• Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships

• Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers.

• Importance of learning and development. Children develop and learn at different rates. The framework covers the education and care of all children in early years provision, including children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

These four themes that underpin all the guidance in the EYFS:

A Unique Child + Positive Relationships + Enabling Environments = Learning and Development

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