General Information
Greenacre Nursery School, Bootle: Curriculum
Curriculum
The Government’s Early Years Foundation Stage (DfES 2007) is an excellent document; it reinforces the above messages and underpins our practice. A copy is available in the office, for parents to borrow.
The Early Years Foundation Stage is organised into six areas of learning:
- Personal, Social and Emotional development
- Communication, Language and Literacy
- problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
- Knowledge and Understanding of the World
- Physical development
- Creative development
The six areas help practitioners plan the learning environment, activities and experiences and provide a framework for the early years curriculum. This does not mean that all of children’s learning is divided up into areas. One experience can provide a child with opportunities to develop a number of competencies, skills and concepts across several areas of learning. For example, children building with blocks may cooperate in carrying the heavy blocks, negotiate the best place to put them, compare the weight and dimensions of each block, and act out an imaginary scene. Therefore they will be developing language, mathematical, physical, personal and social competencies through this one activity.