Early Year Foundation Stage
Early Years in Reception
Welcome to Reception at Ss Peter and Paul’s. In Reception the children in our care flourish in all areas of life. They are happy, friendly, well rounded, confident individuals. Our aim in Reception is to support and develop children’s learning by building on their ideas, experiences and interests. Children need to have the confidence to ‘have a go’ and as practitioners we ensure we give our children the time to play and explore. They need to be active in their learning and be able to persevere even if they find things a ‘bit tricky’ so that they can be proud of their achievements. They also need to be able to develop their own ideas and make links with previous learning.
We do this by embedding excellent learning behaviours through:
These characteristics underpin the learning and development across all areas and support children to become and remain an effective and motivated learner.
It is our intention that all children in our care at Ss Peter and Paul’s grow and make progress across the seven areas of learning through play-based activities by experiencing a well-rounded curriculum which has been carefully considered and planned.
We are lucky enough to not only have a fantastic indoor classroom which is interesting, attractive and clearly zoned but we also have a wonderful outdoor classroom too. We know outdoor learning boosts confidence, social skills, communication, motivation, physical skills, knowledge and understanding. Our children are able to access both these areas throughout each and every day.
We are ambitious for all our children including those with SEND. Our curriculum is tailored where necessary to meet individual needs and is designed to give all our children the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to succeed in life.
In Reception we follow the Early Years Statutory Framework which was published in March 2014. The frame work sets the standards that all Early Years providers must meet to ensure that children learn and develop well.
These areas are:
- Communication and Language Development
- Personal, Social and Emotional Development
- Physical Development
- Literacy
- Mathematics
- Understanding the World
- Expressive Art and Design.
By the time our children reach the end of Reception our aim is to have provided them with the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to prepare themselves for the challenges in Key Stage One and beyond.
For further information regarding Reception at Ss Peter and Paul’s please click on the link below entitled Information Brochure for Reception Class. This will provide further details about our ethos, the day-to-day experiences and routines within Reception and how we strive to continually work in partnership with our parents/carers.
