Educational Framework

We aim to ensure that each child:

  • is in a safe and stimulating environment
  • is given generous care and attention, because of our ratio of qualified staff to children 
  • has the chance to join with other children and adults to live, play, work and learn together
  • is helped to take forward her/his learning and development by being helped to build on what she/he already knows and can do
  • has a key person who makes sure each child makes satisfying progress
  • is in a setting that sees parents as partners in helping each child to learn and develop
  • is in a setting in which parents help to shape the service it offers

Children's development and learning

At present, the provision for children's development and learning is guided by the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).  This supports the learning and welfare of all children aged 0 to 5 years.

The EYFS divides children's learning and development into six areas:

  1. personal, social and emotional development
  2. communication, language and literacy development
  3. problem solving, reasoning and numeracy
  4. knowledge and understanding of the world
  5. physical development
  6. creative development

For each area, the guidance sets out early learning goals. These goals state what it is expected that children will know and be able to do by the end of the reception year of their education.

For more detailed information, please refer to the website below or ask a member of staff:
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/eyfs/