EYFS

Excellent EYFS curriculum based on sound early years pedagogy

Our curriculum in the Early Years has been designed with the intent of providing a broad and balanced curriculum that deepens and consolidates learning over time.  The learners in our Early Years setting are given equal opportunity to access high quality learning experiences, environments and rich provision that improve outcomes, widen aspirations and support learners with the foundation blocks of knowledge and skills they will need to be successful in achieving their next steps.

The central concept that underpins the curriculum focusses on learners gaining an understanding of their position in the world.

In Reception, through the learning themes and planned curricular outcomes, the curriculum builds to develop a deeper sense of self-assurance and knowledge that they are members of a community, their city and global citizens of the world, thus preparing them for their future pathway.  

Reading in the Lime Trust EYFS Curriculum begins with early engagement in language and enjoyment of sounds, songs and rhymes.

The life-long love of reading is encouraged with our youngest learners by building storytelling and language comprehension into the entire curriculum by placing oracy and vocabulary at the heart of taught sessions and play.

Sensory stories and environmental approaches are used throughout the Early Years to develop language-rich provision and facilitation of vocabulary acquisition as phonemic awareness is built.

As learners progress into Reception they access a Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme that teaches skilled word reading and develops to decoding and pronunciation of unfamiliar printed words.

Their comprehension skills are developed to ensure there is secure understanding of what has been read and to support children in making links with wider learning and understanding of their world and new contexts they are faced with.