Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (EYFS)

These are Government standards that nursery, childcare and childminders must provide for the well-being, learning development and practical care of children aged 0- 5.

Personal, Social & Emotional Development

• Develops dispositions and attitudes to learning and the ability to focus when appropriate

• Enhances the ability to develop self-confidence and self-esteem

• Enables the formation of good relationships with adults and peers

• Encourages taking responsibility for actions

• Promotes understanding and respect of the needs and views of others

Communication & Language Development and Literacy

• Communication of needs, feelings and events

• Language for thinking

• Linking sounds and letters

• Listening with enjoyment and responding to stories, songs, poems and rhymes

• Extending vocabulary and explore the meaning & sound of new words

• Using language to imagine & recreate rolls, experiences or even

Physical Development

• Space to move, with increasing control and coordination

• Teaching for the child to manage their own dressing & personal hygiene

• Opportunities to show awareness of space of themselves and of others

• Recognition of the importance of being healthy and how to keep healthys

• Time to practice using a range of small and large

• Equipment practising fine and gross motor skills

Mathematics

• Using numbers for labels and counting

• Recognising colours and shapes

• Using language to compare quantities and to describe size and position

• Using Using mathematical ideas to solve practical problems

Understanding of the World

• Exploration and investigation

• Designing and making skills

• A sense of time, place & community

• ICT

Expressive Arts & Design

• Responding to experiences, expressing and communicating ideas

• Exploring media and materials

• Creating music and dance

• Developing imagination and imaginative play

Spiritual Development

• Awareness of G-d as the Creator

• Celebration of good deeds and positive character traits

• Experience of Jewish practice

• Opportunities to enjoy the Jewish Sabbath and festivals