EYFS Curriculum

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

  • Building confidence to choose activities and discuss ideas
  • Build awareness of needing help, and confidence to ask
  • Confidence to speak in a group of familiar peers
  • Working as part of a group, following rules where appropriate
  • Forming Positive Relationships with Peers and Adults
  • Playing cooperatively and taking turns
  • Explains own knowledge and understanding, and asks appropriate questions of others.

Communication & Language

  • Listening attentively, including while completing tasks
  • Listening to stories and responding to prompts and ideas
  • Following instructions to carry out activities
  • Expression of ideas, including real-life and fictional ideas
  • Using past, present and future forms of language
  • Answer how and why questions
  • Links statements, sticking to a main theme or intention
  • Introduces a narrative or storyline to their play

Literacy

  • Use phonics to decode.segment straightforward words
  • Read words and simple sentences
  • Read common sight vocabulary
  • Discuss what has been read
  • Use phonics knowledge to write simple words and sentences
  • Writes own name and other things such as labels and captions
  • Continue a rhyming string
  • Enjoys an increasing range of books
  • Give meaning to marks they make

Understanding The World

  • Talk about events in their own lives and that of their family
  • Know about similarities and differences between communities
  • Talk about similarities and differences between objects
  • Make observations of plants and animals
  • Recognise that technology is used in homes and schools

Mathematics

  • Count reliably with numbers up to 20
  • Use counting on and number knowledge for simple addition
  • Count out objects from a larger group
  • Begin to recognise and describe simple patterns
  • Use everyday language to talk about size, position, time and money.
  • Use mathematical language to describe shapes and objects

Physical Development

  • Developing control and coordination of movement
  • Handling equipment and tools, including for writing
  • Learning about healthy diet and exercise
  • Managing their own hygiene and personal needs

Expressive Arts & Design

  • Experiment with songs, music and dance
  • Use a range of artistic materials, tools and techniques
  • Work imaginatively to create new works
  • Represent ideas through art, music, role-play, dance and stories