Holme Community School
Early Years Foundation Stage
EYFS Leader: Miss Anna Brown
The EYFS is a play-based curriculum which enables children to explore and learn in a safe, secure and challenging environment. Using play as a context for learning, children can explore, experiment, discover and solve problems in imaginative and playful ways through their own individual interests.
How have we developed our curriculum?
Our curriculum is based on the Early Years Foundation stage, and the four overarching principles shape practice in our early years setting and in our curriculum development.
These are:
• Every child is a unique child, who is constantly learning and can be resilient, capable, confident, and self-assured.
• Children learn to be strong and independent through positive relationships.
• Children learn and develop well in enabling environments with teaching and support from adults, who respond to their individual interests and needs and help them to build their learning over time. Children benefit from a strong partnership between practitioners and parents and/or carers.
• Importance of learning and development. Children develop and learn at different rates.