The EYFS classrooms are organised to allow children to explore and learn securely, safely and independently. There are spaces where the children can be active and areas where they can be quiet. The classrooms are set up to enable children to independently find and locate equipment and resources to aid their learning in whichever way possible.
Across our Early Year environment the children will be able to:
- access a range of different media and materials such as clay, pastels, charcoal, paint and junk modelling.
- engage in role play using a mixture of ‘real objects’ that they would find at home and dress up items to enhance their play.
- utilize a range of resources to support construction and small world play, such as blocks, animals, vehicles and loose parts.
- explore storytelling through the use of books, puppets and our outside amphitheater!
- find out about different cultures and traditions from real photographs and objects.
- learn to sew using a selection of fabric and felt.
- access open ended Maths and English resources which are spread throughout the provision, enabling children to use skills learnt in real, purposeful contexts.
Outside learning is as important as the learning that takes place indoors. Being outdoors offers opportunities for doing things in different ways and on different scales than when indoors, and we are lucky to have a large garden featuring both open space and a wooded area. Our garden offers the children opportunity to explore, use their senses and be physically active and exuberant in our natural surroundings. We provide resources and opportunities for the children to access outdoors that help the children to develop in all seven areas of learning.
EYFS
Our highly skilled team in EYFS carefully support and extend our children through a range of exciting and awe inspiring learning opportunities. Our learning environments are rich and stimulating, offering an open ended child-led approach that encompasses both the Prime and Specific Areas. In our setting, children free flow between all classrooms and the outside area. All the rooms are set up with specific resources that enhance all 7 areas of learning in the EYFS curriculum. Our team add daily enhancements that follow the children’s interests and challenge their thinking as they understand how children learn best (Characteristics of Effective Learning). Our EYFS team embrace and bring alive our school’s ethos by investing in the development of the ‘whole child’ through physical, social and holistic development with awe and wonder at the heart.
