Long Term Plan for the Early Years Foundation Stage
Themes of the EYFS
A unique Child
We are focused on ensuring that each child's development, wellbeing, safety, and health are well catered for, as our aims are to ensure each child is treated as individual and are competent learners.
Positive Relationships
We will be promoting a calm and caring environment where each child has a key person who they and their family can develop a respectful relationship with the aim to promote the child's all round development.
Enabling Environments
The children's achievements will be monitored and recorded so as they can be shared with the parents and if necessary with other professionals, in assisting and supporting the child's development. We will provide a variety of activities and support to help children feel comfortable and secure when in transition, in to and around the nursery. We will also be encouraging them to feel part of the wider community by when possible; taking part in walks around the local area and inviting visitors in to the nursery.
Learning and Development
Each child is treated as an individual in the recognition that all children learn and develop differently. This will be supported by the key people in the child's life at nursery through planned and unplanned activities covering the six areas of learning in The Early Year's Foundation Stage:
Areas of Development
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Children will have the opportunity to explore a range of activities to promote emotional, spiritual and moral development within social situations such as sand, role play and group work which will be planned as well as spontaneous. Children will be encouraged to become independent under the knowledge that a caring and supportive adult is near by. All staff working with children with behaviour or communication difficulties will be knowledgeable in how to help them in their development.
Problem solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
We will use Numeracy in lots of different activities to encourage counting, awareness of different shapes, size and measurements in the environment indoors as well as outdoors in both spontaneous activities and planned. We will promote calculating by looking at groups of different numbers, adding objects together and taking objects away. Through developing the children's knowledge for Numeracy we shall be developing vocabulary and encouraging the children to begin to solve problems.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Children will be provided with the opportunities to explore and investigate objects to include ICT equipment such as computers and toys as well as construction techniques and materials.
We will encourage children to discuss, and explain familiar events from the past, present and for the future. The adults will support them to be interested in their own and others environments, cultures and beliefs.
Physical Development
We will provide the children with a range of equipment, tools and materials, enabling them to develop their small and large motor skills with increasing control, confidence and co-ordination. Through doing this we will develop their sense of safety for themselves and others, also developing their awareness of their bodies; needs and changes. The adults will also encourage the children to participate in making healthy life style choices by providing nutritious food and opportunities for exercise and rest.
Creative Development
During the child's time with us we will provide opportunities and resources for each child to explore a range of different media, materials and music. We will encourage imaginative play, and help them to respond to experiences through expression and communication in a variety of forms, physically and orally. The children will be guided and supported by practitioners through the encouragement of the child's independence, confidence and imagination.
Communication, Language and Literacy
We will encourage the children to communicate through a range of media to include speaking, listening and writing, using a range of tools as well as developing their ability to communicate through their use of their body such as facial expressions.
We will encourage them to use their imagination to make sense of experiences they have had and to develop their own ideas and views. We will introduce letters and words through displays, posters, books and games and singing, and introduce the alphabet by linking sounds with letters. We will also provide them with the resources to be able to explore mark making.
Practitioners within the setting are continuously reflecting on their practice through peer observations, mentor meetings and professional development.